Month: September 2023

Ive been working at a school district for 6 years with the same pay and in the school I am working now they are constantly attacking how I look how I walk how I sneeze and telling me I should be grateful for working at 10 dollars an hour when I can barely feed myself…. I'm at the end of my rope to the point where I feel suicidal most of the days…. I can't even apply to other jobs anymore as it becomes nerve wracking and my anxiety just makes me freeze in the interview process… I don't know what to do and with how things are going I feel like I'll go homeless with credit card debt from buying food since 10 dollars an hour is not considered poverty for government assistance.

Recently I got a new job. I’m finally making some money and even being able to put back some stuff. It’s… odd yet rewarding. However, everybody in this position is the opposite of me. All they care about is money, they “pulled themselves up from their bootstraps” and they think that nobody wants to work today. How do I not lose who I am? I agree with 99% of what is posted on this sub and the 1% is just stupid stuff the mods take down because it doesn’t belong here. Which… this might not either but I guess we will find out. I want to look back on this post every year to see if I have changed, and how I can get back to who I am. So please, I’m asking you Reddit, help me keep the person that I am. I don’t want to see myself a…

Hi, I'm from Australia. I work at a store called BWS (a chain of liquor stores). It's the largest alcohol retail chain in the country. BWS is owned by Endeavour Drinks Group, a subsidiary of Woolworths Group Limited (a large grocery store chain). Woolworths just reported $1.6b in profits just for the grocery chain, not BWS or any other companies they own so the figure is likely closer to the $2.3b mark. I was recently told by my manager that Woolworths is severely limiting the amount that is allowed to be spent on wages for casual employees and forcing other casuals to go part-time so Woolworths can save money on wages. We are in a cost-of-living crisis and forcing employees to go part-time and only guaranteeing them 10 hours a week or they will be fired and the store managers will have to rehire new staff that can go straight…

Hi, I'm from Australia. I work at a store called BWS (a chain of liquor stores). It's the largest alcohol retail chain in the country. BWS is owned by Endeavour Drinks Group, a subsidiary of Woolworths Group Limited (a large grocery store chain). Woolworths just reported $1.6m in profits just for the grocery chain, not BWS or any other companies they own so the figure is likely closer to the $2.3m mark. I was recently told by my manager that Woolworths is severely limiting the amount that is allowed to be spent on wages for casual employees and forcing other casuals to go part-time so Woolworths can save money on wages. We are in a cost-of-living crisis and forcing employees to go part-time and only guaranteeing them 10 hours a week or they will be fired and the store managers will have to rehire new staff that can go straight…

I usually work in the field but recently started working in the office for “light duty” due to an injury. I was recently assigned to do the job of someone in the office who frankly just doesn’t do her job. My regular responsibilities don’t dictate that I would have to do any of her job responsibilities but this is a unique situation I am in. I’ve started noticing that this one individuals job roles have been pawned off to other coworkers in the field though, not on light duty like I am. Within everyone’s job description we have “other duties as assigned” but some of those responsibilities fall SO far out of our original scope of practice/job. When does “other duties as assigned” go to far and constitute legal action?