Month: September 2023

Yesterday (Thursday) I was asked to come in and cover a shift to which I replied I already had plans but I could reschedule to today (Friday) if someone covers me then, coworker says it’s covered and so I assume it’s taken care of. As I walked in yesterday for the shift I was told that tomorrow was not in fact covered and I wasn’t needed that day but still needed tomorrow, problem is I already rescheduled my plans for Thursday and had moved them up a day to Friday. This pissed me off but I was so confused on the scheduling and honestly just flustered with all that was happening. Flash forward I text my boss saying I re arranged my schedule under the pretense I wasn’t working Friday but Thursday and he just tells me I’m coming in Friday at the normal time I should’ve told him in…

So you dine in a restaurant. Food totals $100 and 9% sales tax totaling $109. If you try to tip 20%, do you tip $20 or $21.80? If you pay with credit card, pay attention to the “convenient tipping” 18%/20%/25% button. Most of the restaurants do calculation based on the grand total, including sales tax. ​

My company is based in one state and I live in another state (in the US). The people who live near the company get together for potlucks or bbqs or picnics about once a quarter. In the years I’ve been here it’s always bothered me that they don’t inform the entire company that these events are happening. At my last company, about 90% of us lived close so we were able to make the monthly roof top hangouts. But for the 10% who didn’t live in the same state, or were traveling, they were also informed to take off at 3 pm on Friday because that’s what the rest of the company did. I thought this made complete sense; wherever you are, take off at 3. My current company does not do this. In fact, when I suggested that we announce when the in-person part of the company gathers for…

I've just done some light investigation, primarily using MIT's living wage calculator. As it happens, the state with the lowest living wage is South Dakota. For one adult with no children, the living wage is $15.15. If you want population replacement to work out, then you need to pay enough for two adults with three kids to afford to live while only one adult is working, so minimum wage in SD would need to be $40.02. The minimum wage in South Dakota is $7.25. What. The. Fuck. As a sidenote, there's no federal definition for a full-time vs part-time employee. Because of this, you could work 50+ hours in a week and still not receive the benefits of being a full-time employee.

This went down this week in Chicago—is any of this legal? https://www.reddit.com/r/IATSE/comments/16had9y/my_local_is_freezing_our_hw_hours/

I(24m) work a financial-based 8:30-5 office job. My boss is kind and I have respect for her, and my pay is not bad for a first job with great benefits. Out of nowhere, she called me into her office and announced to me that I'll be issued a work phone and expected to be on call after work and on weekends starting next week. This was not in my job description and not in my contract. I wasn't sure what to do so I just sat there and nodded in confirmation that I understood her expectations. What should I do?

Hi Folks My Girlfriend worked all her working life in retail at a bookstore (where you lose all faith in humanity) and managed to get a job in an office. I tried to teach her the ways of the bullshit office politics. But I do a bad job. In retail, the abuse is so rampant, and you can't escape the customers that you have no concept of idling. I try to teach her that being idle is key in the office in order to not burnout, but she is just so insanely productive. She said when it is 16:45 and there are 14 unanswered emails, she can't let it go and just not do it. In the office, people stop working at 15:00 at the latest and start faking and everything is basically a giant show of bulshittery, but she can't wrap her head around this concept. Do you have…

Hi Folks My Girlfriend worked all her working life in retail at a bookstore (where you lose all faith in humanity) and managed to get a job in an office. I tried to teach her the ways of the bullshit office politics. But I do a bad job. In retail, the abuse is so rampant, and you can't escape the customers that you have no concept of idling. I try to teach her that being idle is key in the office in order to not burnout, but she is just so insanely productive. She said when it is 16:45 and there are 14 unanswered emails, she can't let it go and just not do it. In the office, people stop working at 15:00 at the latest and start faking and everything is basically a giant show of bulshittery, but she can't wrap her head around this concept. Do you have…