Month: September 2023

A rather bleak, but realistic thought I recently had and I felt like I should share it here. ​ When you are born, you have nothing. You don't have any property or skills, you have nothing. “Obviously”, you're going to say, “because you are a baby!!” But there is one thing you have: time. We are all born with a certain amount of time on this planet, and your whole life will be spent exchanging that time for things you want or need. If you want a hamburger, or a car, a vacation, or even a day off: these are things that cost you, and intrinsically you do not have any money except for that money you've obtained by selling your time. Even education is something obtained by investing your time, now you're just investing it in yourself so that your time can be marketed as more valuable than it…

My mother in law went in for a routine procedure last week. There were complications and now she is in the ICU on a breathing machine and sedated. My wife is a wreck at home and wants to go see her tonight to visit so I need to be home to watch the kids while she goes since they have a strict visitation policy in the ICU because of COVID. So I am a nurse at a local nursing home. I was called today by the staffing department and asked if I could stay for the evening shift because someone had called out last minute at 2:15 pm when I get off at 3 pm. I explained why I could not stay this evening and they said okay. They called back at 2:30 pm and said they could not find anyone to relieve me. I again explained my situation and…

So I was officially hired at this place. Given an employee ID and everything. They never called me back with a schedule, and after asking them about it over the course of a few weeks, I grew exhausted and just gave up. Nothing ever came from it. So my question is, should I call corporate? Is there anything they can do you think? Also I’m tired of hearing “nO oNe WaNtS tO wOrK aNyMoRe” and it’s like yeah, no, normal people have NEVER wanted to work but we must do so to survive and it sucks just wasting your life on a stupid job.

Working as a sub is pretty common here for part time work, especially right after graduating college. The requirements aren't very high but the application process is pretty involved and makes you supply written references from everyone you've worked for over the last three years. Each time they do this I have to re-upload all the documents, fill out 20 or so sections on the online app, wrangle my old supervisors to do their portion again, and re-do the same in person interview. I can't think of any reason why they wouldn't hire me, and none of my friends who've subbed have gone through this.

I have been working as an live in manager for an inn in California for over 6 years rent free. I've been through multiple ownership changes. The current owners took over about a year ago. In January of this year, I asked to start taking one day off a week, I previously would work 7 days a week, 12-15 hours a day, and would take a month off once a year. The owners agreed, and then asked if I could start paying rent as I would still be getting paid for the day off. The rent would be based on the 4 days off a month, about $700 before tax. I am on salary, I'm unsure if they're doing me a favor with that, but that's another issue. They offered to make a lease, and I agreed. All of this was verbal, nothing in writing. The reason I asked for…

I was at a restaurant last night and my server opened a tab for me. We got to talking and it turns out that the owner will (and has done so in the past) charge employees on their personal credit cards/cash if a group accidentally forgets to pay…. I know it's illegal in california to dock pay for something like that off someones check but I wanted to make sure if it's still illegal to charge someone for it even if it's their money, right? Looking for feedback/advice

I started a new job about a month ago and I’m ready to look elsewhere . They seemed very impressed in my interview and even mentioned moving me up in the company in the future. I’m absolutely overqualified for the position, however, I came from a different industry and lack product knowledge. Now that I’ve started, I’m left out of meetings and conversations that I feel like I’m capable of having. I’m not being fully utilized and I feel like I’m treated like an idiot because I lack product knowledge. I don’t have clarification on who I report to, but my mentor/coworker seems to think that he’s my manager… and he’s definitely threatened by me. I barely have enough work to do but always ask if I can help with anything. Whenever I have a free second and check my phone, he looks over and gives me pointless shit to…