Month: September 2023

im a new (and younger) employee and I have been wanting this job for awhile. mainly to not starve to death or get evicted. anyways, once new hires started flooding, they tried to “subtly urge” us to come to office which felt more like a demand. no written communication. now, we just got a mass company email explain how they want us back 2x a week. because if the secrecy and “bait and switch” feeling I have, I created an email. it is asking for proof of research that they mentioned they conducted for RTO. also it asks if a union rep will be at the next meeting about it. this is department is filled with rather demure people- I am not one of them. EVERYONE received this email, including higher ups. would it be unhinged to reply all instead of emailing them directly ?

Is there anyone else out there that has been denied employment by a cruise line post-contract signing for a mental health condition? I’m an entertainer that was hired for a show with a very popular and international cruise line. The process is a lengthy (and expensive) one, and includes being cleared medically by a maritime certified facility. I reported that I was medicated for Bipolar II on a drug classified as an anticonvulsant, as well as a history of depression and self harm. The medical facility retracted my signed contract for these reasons, citing the ILO-MLC 2006 Guidelines. After appealing the decision with the cruise line directly, they denied me again and referenced these same guidelines. My appeal included letters from my current employer, psychiatrist, and therapist stating my stability and clearance for work. The cruise line also reasoned that my medication bars me from employment, stating the specific side…

Reading the title, I think I know the answer. I’m looking for opinions and discussion on unpaid after work activities/company structure (and honestly need to vent a bit). For background, I work in a helping profession in which I am essentially on call to clients 24/7 via cell phone and am only paid for in person client hours. (IE. 36$ per hour with a client) paperwork, scheduling, meetings, etc. are not paid. In fact, I have to pay 100$ a week to attend these mandatory meetings. This is standard in my industry as supervision hours, though the specific cost is very high for my area. We are required to have 3,000 supervised hours before we can drop the “associate” title and become fully licensed LPCs. Therefore there is no room for promotion in this industry or at my company. I like my job, I like talking to clients and helping…

someone just tell me what to do! about 5 months ago i got my first salaried role. after a rough job search, i was blinded by the light and took the first offer i got as most people maybe would. the job has good pay and benefits. the issue is its in the office five days a week and my commute is about an hour on a terrible mountain road. its proving to be more and more unsustainable. i feel like all i do in life is work or drive to/from work. i feel disconnected from the community i actually live in because i spend all my time an hour away. some other issues are i dont align culturally with the office or my coworkers and have even faced what i consider some light bullying by some coworkers. my boss has been good and i respect him and dont want…

Apologies if formatting is bad or anything. I’m on mobile and post on reddit extremely rarely. Just by reading the title I know a lot of you may at first say that I should for my own mental health but the situation I’m in is a bit out of the norm I’d think. I just turned 21 a week ago and have been working as an Outside Plant engineer for a large telecom company designing their networks in a large city near me since May 2023. I was given this opportunity since I grew up around the industry and nailed the interview since I had so much background knowledge and my first couple days once I was hired weren’t so bad. What I didn’t know is the lead engineer we had in house and the one supposed to train me for the next couple months was leaving the next week…

I work part time as a professional tutor at local community college, a job I started in 2016. My initial hourly rate was $16.50, and in 2017 the tutoring got an across the board raise of 6%, which is exactly $17.49. That is still what I make today in 2023, for a job where the minimum requirement is a bachelor's degree. A number of the other tutors have raised questions about getting another raise, but our supervisor has said he “has no control” over that and there seems to be no hope or appetite of us ever getting a raise. I also worked at another community college as a tutor; I was there off and on from 2014-2022 at a rate of $18.00 per hour, and never received a raise. I know that full time employees at the college have received raises in the time since 2017, but part-time employees…

This is hypothetical, and might even be Malicious Compliance? In California. My employer paid for my Notary commission, But they did NOT enter into any kind of agreement with me restricting my Notarizing to business hours. I intend to LLC my Notary business, and charge 45$ travel fees.. If i ever get a notary request during business hours, I''ll just leave to take care of that and return! My current position is hourly, and they might see this as a problem if I'm leaving at random times to make some Notary $$. I'm just wondering if they'd fire me… would / could it be wrongful? Afterall, a Notary's duties are to the public, not the employer. I cant imagine leaving work often, as there are plenty other Noary's out there that don't charge as high of fees. I haven't seen this covered anywhere so I thought I'd ask.

Beginning this month, my wife’s employer required employees to return to the workplace 3 days a week. Upon return all the desktop phones have been removed. Management’s explanation: Everyone has Microsoft Teams, so there is no reason to have an actual phones on the desks any longer.

Hey all, first time posting here but been lurking for more than a year now. Great stuff, great info. Thanks for everything. Anyway, someone I know told me that their employer had asked them to do 32 hours of unpaid training outside work hours and to complete it by a certain date. This was a written request and specifies that it is being required as a result of the contract which the employer holds with a client of theirs. Separately, during a verbal conversation, the employer implied that if the training was not completed, there could be but would not necessarily be, a cut in pay. Reading into this, I suspect that what this means is that failure to complete the training makes my friend ineligible to work on their currently assigned contract and would force the employer to move them to a new, possibly less lucrative, contract with fewer…