Month: September 2023

I'm a bit conflicted after trying to read some information online but I'm under the impression I should be entitled to 10 hours of overtime in this case. I'm part time. My job pays fortnightly. My contract is 21.5 hours a week/43 per fortnight. My boss had a week off and we haven't got the staff to cover open and close, as everyone is new and the only person aside from me who could open and close the store, was also away. I agreed to work open to close, 6 days straight. This amounted to 48 hours in one week. The previous week I worked 28 hours so it comes to 76 hours neat for the fortnight which is where I'm conflicted on my entitlements. As far as I can understand online the General Retail Industry Award requires overtime to be paid when someone exceeds 38 hours in a week,…

I am in IT. Our HR and receptionist both quit over a month ago and somehow I became their de facto replacements. This is at a Fortune 500 company. I can’t focus on anything for more than 10 minutes at a time because how often I get interrupted making my job stressful an nearly impossible. It’s not as if this company doesn’t have additional resources to backfill the vacant positions, they do. But the HR Director emailed my manager asking for me to ‘help’. He of course obliged. It’s untenable. I made the mistake of leaving a major metropolitan area for this ‘opportunity’ which happens to be in an otherwise dry market for the industry. Obviously I didn’t consider it at the time but this job is a total nightmare. Inflation and buying a house in 2021 has left my savings dwindling. I’m just so sick of this shit. /rant…

27F- I was interviewing with this company for a certain role and after a couple of rounds, they said my profile fits in another position that they had been thinking of introducing (it's a growth stage startup). That role was more aligned with my skills so I got excited, continued the rest of the rounds with that role in mind. Numerous interviews, a week long assignment and after 15 days of back and forth, they extended an offer to me. Matched my salary requirements after a lot of hesitation (it was below what I had initially asked and if they had a problem with it, they shouldn't have continued with the interview), but I agreed to accept it. Informed them that I have a trip planned well in advance so my joining should be after that, or I can work from home for a few weeks. The HR agreed to…

If you’re reading this, thank you for taking the time. It should only be 5min. So to start, my boss is my uncle (not blood related). He hired me when I was 21 to do industrial sales and now I’m 25 doing pretty much the same stuff, just a lot more experience and knowledge at this point. So I started at 12.50/hr and now I earn 17.50/hr. I also am one of two people employed that knows how to build custom hydraulic hoses, I know where everything in the store is, I lock up daily, manage the other sales reps’ accounts for them when they’re slammed busy and am the only one at the store for the last hour of the day when everyone else heads home. Here’s the thing, my uncle is hardly here anymore as he’s busy with charity work through the local rotary club, I’m the main…

My boss has repeatedly tried to get me to come in 10 minutes before the start of my shift so she won’t be late for her other job. At first she demanded I do so (until I spoke with her boss lol). She dropped it for about a month. Last night before I came in (7 minutes before the start of my shift, exactly) she called me 5 times back to back. When I came in she asked me to text her before I leave the house from now on “if you’re going to be late.” I corrected her and let her know that I wasn’t, in fact, late. I clocked in on the dot. We argued back and forth about me texting her before I left my house. She didn’t seem too happy with my refusal lol. I’m literally never late, I usually arrive a few minutes early. I…

I went to orientation for a retail store aka Ross and saw I was literally put two of my three training days at 3:45 am instead of 5 am which is my starting availability. I even told the ASM about it and she said it’s the time the truck starts. I’m calling tomorrow because this is ridiculous! I couldn’t even get a word in since they where having a meeting in the office. I find it weird how a truck is going to start at 3:45 when another ASM told me they start unloading at 5 am. Seems they don’t even know what they’re doing. Considering the ASM didn’t know I was supposed to interview the day I came in.

Nothing else happens in my life anymore so even if i sleep in my head I’m in that place working. Does anyone else ever get this? Waking up in the middle of the night and realising that your mind is so occupied with work it can’t even think of anything else. It feels like I can’t ever escape.

I just changed to work place that's closer to my home so I can start on a driver's license. It's a gas station only 14 minutes away, I thought perfect job for only 1 year but no. I already wanna leave 2 weeks I never got anything explained except the cash register, my boss constantly got angry at me that I was doing something wrong nobody ever showed me how to do. She just sended me into nightshift all by my own, no explanation what to do, only a list of things to do. But there is the thing…the list only says what I need to bake, not where stuff is, not how the oven works, not that i needed to clean the floor and where the mop is and more. So after 11 days of worker there she had been yelling at me 5 of these days, tells the…

At work, one of my coworkers dropped his 2-week notice like a hot potato. On his “last” day, we threw a potluck. I whipped up some basmati rice jazzed up with saffron. But as the clock ticked, Mr. 2-weeks turned from confident to “I’ve-made-a-huge-mistake” vibes. After his “final” exit interview, he popped back, saying he was staying. Rumor has it, he gave his 2 weeks notice expecting a counter-offer from HR, but management served him a reality check instead and called his bluff. Maybe it was the master's degree he just attained that made him think he was worth more, or maybe he stayed because he just didn't get enough of my rice!