Month: September 2023

So I'm at a relatively new job (been here just over a year) and after 9 years of saving my money I'm in a position to finally buy a home. I've been spending a lot of my time recently house hunting, seeing houses and the like. Now, I've had a lot of people telling me to avoid letting my employer that I'm buying a house. A lot of their reasoning is so that my employer doesn't get an idea that I'm now reliant on their income to survive. I've also had a friend mention that telling his employer he had just bought a house helped him months down the line when they were having layoffs, his boss specifically chose to keep him on to avoid hardship. What do you all think?

So as the title says, I was recently fired from a job about a month ago. I got my final paycheck, and it was the correct amount for the few days I worked in that pay period. Two weeks later I receive a full paycheck as if I had worked every day for two weeks. I contacted them and confirmed it was a mistake, and they contacted payroll to reverse it. Issue is..I’ve been having some financial issues. My account was in the negative by quite a bit, and on top of that multiple pending bills came out of my account once it was out of the negative. So they are going to be unable to retract the payment. I have no idea how to go about handling this as I have no income or savings. Can they pursue legal action if I am unable to repay them the money?

Mostly just wondering if what I’m seeing is normal in the industry. I work for a small, non union plant that makes wiring harness components for the auto industry. We had a plant wide meeting three weeks ago about how this strike could be coming up, just to “fill you all in on the situation”. I thought it was a little odd, maybe getting skittish? Fast forward to this week, and they seem to be in full panic mode. No overtime allowed, starting immediately, even though we’re just barely caught up on orders, and almost all of the part numbers are “hot”. Now, I’m okay not working any overtime, if I don’t need the money. The problem is that we’re not fully staffed to run what we need to, so all three shifts have had people working OT to fill the gaps. Plus, we’ve been running nonstop for weeks now…

Higher taxes for the rich/ big business sounds really good. But in the US economy this has the opposite result. Because these businesses arent going to let higher taxes cut into their bottom line, so they raise the prices of their goods and services to make up for the difference which affects the average consumer. Maybe I'm wrong? Please discuss this.

I am in my late twenties. After the pandemic, I switched from working in Healthcare to pursuing jobs in Admin. I also had retail jobs part time in between to make ends meet. I've worked with a lot of young people and I honestly always loved working with them. They really are not as catty and small minded as other age groups. I can deal with innocent self obsession. It's the cattiness and mind games I can't stand. I have noticed that women in the middle age group can be extremely hard to work with. The woman above me seems to withhold knowledge and information that would make me a better employee and more of an asset to the company. I am baffled by how little these women are interested in training me, and it seems as though they want to hoard all of the value. I say this only…

I currently wfh and I also have a little side business that’s doing ok but not enough to support me just yet. I’m moving in with my fiancé next year and that’s going to give me some wiggle room financially. I want to go part time to focus more on my little business, but obviously I can’t tell my employer that. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to approach the subject without giving much info? I’ve never gone down to part time before.

I’ve had enough of my job. It honestly wouldn’t be bad if I could just focus on MY job. I am an office staff at a school bus yard. I have no control over the recruiting or hiring process. Im supposed to work 8 hours a day and only drive “Incase of an emergency” for the past 3 years, I’ve driven probably twice a week. This year I’m driving everyday. This means I have to come in early and leave late. I’m now working 11-12 hour shifts. Ontop of that, I am only in the office 5-6 of those hours. It sucks. I want to leave but every other place I look at is also understaffed and just slammed with work. How? Why?!? Where did all the people go?

Hi all. I started a new role at a medium-sized company last week. During the entire 4-round interview process and the extra meeting we had to sort paperwork, I understood that this role would be fully remote. On my first day, my manager let me know that this has to change. He told me that I would have to be at the office every day, except when I don’t feel well. I had a company car in my last gig, and now I’m forced to spend personal resource to get a car and maintain it. My manager also told me that I would be the one breaking the news about RTO to all the people in my organization. I politely addressed my concerns with him and asked for his support for the announcement meeting. Received no support or understanding whatsoever. Also found out many things aren’t how I was told…

I work at a startup. Apparently, the product I’m on is going under and I’m going down along with it. The issue is that I have a long notice compared to my other coworkers. Everyone in the states is “at will” (I think that’s the term, they can fire them with zero notice), but I have a 3 month notice. So, they tried to get me to sign away my 3 month benefit and told me if I didn’t then they’d just fire me that week, since they have to prepare for the product going under. I told them to go ahead then, but I wasn’t signing away my job security. I thought that was that and began entering senioritis and pulling back. I was still working, and still handing things in, I just wasn’t going at the breakneck pace I was before, or working overtime. So, I was pulled…