Month: August 2023

Heads up for discussions of ableism below. I got injured at my job due to my employer's negligence (I warned them several times of danger, have this on record, but got ignored and invalidated) and have been relying on worker's comp for the past several months. Here's the kicker: My injury isn't “traditional” (like getting a finger lobbed off by a saw, falling off a ladder, typical OSHA stuff as you'd say). I was verbally assaulted, threatened with physical abuse, bullied, and harassed by “clients” while performing work duties. This treatment was motivated by my identity and, if it got physically violent, would easily be labeled a hate crime. Furthermore, the cops nearly got called on these people, I couldn't leave the premises, and I had to be walked to my car because it wasn't safe to be alone. I have PTSD from this event, which also exacerbated chronic pain…

I have only been working at my current position for around 5 months. I am a contractor and this is my first position since graduating college. I was really happy I was given this opportunity, and I was really excited to learn the ropes and get started. Except I kept being told I wouldn’t learn everything right away. I would ask my manager questions, who works remotely in a different state, and felt I was being pushed away and not getting the answers I needed. Because of this, I relied on my office mate who’d been in the position I currently supervise, also as a contractor. She was really great help at the beginning, but a lot has happened and I feel she is undermining me now. From the get-go, my office mate told me she wasn’t my boss and wouldn’t tell me what to do. I leaned on her…

Previous post; “New job? Going to make it short. From Texas, grad’d from Uni 12/2022. For a job offer finally after 9-months of looking, hired through a 3rd party staffing agency to work for a tech start up here in Dallas, where I reside. Getting $17.50/hr. It’s a classic 9a.-5p. gig, running an office/admin assistant/office manager, admin gig overall. Am I being screwed with this going through a 3rd party staffing company, getting $17.50? I’m W2’d through the staffing company, not 1099, though they call me a contractor at my office assignment. They said it’s technically Temp Labour but that I “may” be “converted over” to working for the company long-term, aware of potential job security issues, the temp agency told me that it’s a “non-ending” contract (no end-date), I just worry that I’m being screwed over and will be eventually fired after they finish using me for “what they…

Just as the title says. I am a manufacturing technician at a pharmaceutical plant. However, my credentials are “Bachelor in Chemical Engineering.” As a new immigrant without much local work experience, I tend to get discriminated by recruiters in jobs that I'm qualified for. Hence, I put my ego aside and took a step down to get hired, so I can continue paying bills. Management was already aware that my plan was to gradually move from Manufacturing to Validation. I thought, by going above and beyond, there will be a higher chance to get promoted. This was all false. All I'm doing is mechanical maintenance of the machines and basic operations. I don't even get to touch and play with the micro controllers that the Validation department has to test. My manager straight up told me “Unfortunately, the access to controller settings is only restricted to engineering.” I'm an engineer…

I am a senior graduate student in a north American University. I am orginally from an developping counntry, which I mean a poor country. I have worked in the lab for almost five years, and still don't have idea when I can get my degree. My supervisor is a tenured senior professor. All the five years I have been in his lab, he only asked me to work on industry funded projects. In this project, it is almost impossible for me to learn any useful knowledge and skills. Actually it is 95% labor work – any high school students can easily handle. My supervisor does not want waste time to talk to me. Because he does not care my work and myself at all. Each year the total time we communicated is less than one hour. Whenever I want to talk to him about my project, he seems very annoyed,…

I want to challenge every United States Citizen here to talk to one person tomorrow at work about forming unions. I come in here very day and see dozens of posts about managers lying about pay, lying about hours, firing people for no good reason, etc. ALL OF THIS WOULD BE PREVENTED WITH A UNION. We could create fast food unions covering all fast food, not just a single company. We could create IT unions, etc. In every case workers would be protected from abuse, wages would be higher and more transparent, and benefits could actually exist for these jobs. It's insane we don't look out for ourselves, and a lot of it has to do with the myth rigged individualism. I have been in the workforce 35 years and the last 20 I have seen nothing but people working harder for less. Other countries are eating our lunch with…

I will finally be getting my first ever white collar, non customer facing, entry level career type job. Problem is, the only good thing these past three years was my commute has always been less than a mile away from my place. This will be the first time I travel. So I was wondering, is this reasonable? Training: 11 miles away 19 minutes on highway, two turns Regular: 7 miles away 15 minutes straight shot on highway

My company uses Workday, and I’m trying to apply for opportunities to advance. I’m asking for anywhere from 10-25% more for positions that have more responsibilities and require more experience. The thing is, these positions rarely if ever tell you what the pay range is, so you have to play guessing games as to what the proper pay expectations should be. Has anyone else had this experience? Do most people lowball the salary expectations in order to increase interview likelihood?

Candidates for certified healthcare positions are being required to complete a writing, reading and math skills test before being offered an interview. It is imo wildly offensive, overly extensive (especially the math portion that includes tons of long division with no calculator allowed), and totally unnecessary. These people have taken the required coursework, passed their programs, and passed the national registry for their position before even applying. I do not see why they should be tested on conversion factors from inches to yards?? I am by no means a shot caller, but I work a lot with our new hires. And I do feel that if I can present hr with data that shows how pointless these tests are, perhaps my opinion would be taken seriously. Has anyone else had experience with this sort of thing?

I am in Texas working in a retail store and the AC has been out 12 days now. It has been over 100 degrees all of those days and is usually around 95 in here. The AC guys came for the first time today and said the whole system has to be replaced and it will take 10 days to do. I am being told by people in the company that they are totally within the law and there is no potential legal or lawsuit liability or anything. I am hearing something very different from customers, some of which are business owners and such. We only have 3 employees at any given time, and one quit because of the heat. So the two of us have been working 12 hours shifts, and we're not allowed to leave to get food or water, and the company isn't paying for drinking water.…