Month: September 2023

It's anyone here familiar with Washington State/ federal labor laws know whether or not I can file for unemployment or some other labor law stuff?

Sometime soon the company will have a pizza party. How could someone show depreciation about the event without getting fired? Any ideas?

I'm so sorry if this is not extremely coherent, I just tested positive for covid and I'm exhausted. Just to preface all of this, this is a really small company so there's no HR. I'm not at risk of losing any housing or not being able to pay any other bills and I'm extremely lucky to have a support system that will help me through this financially for the time being. While none of this is illegal, it's still morally corrupt and ruining my mental health to be around. My partner and I decided that it's time for us to leave our niche small business retail job. I worked part time while I was finishing up college. I'm really devastated by everything that has happened because I've been here for 2 years and really loved the actual job itself. The work environment has done a complete 180 and easily has…

I only work 40 hours a week. With traffic, my commute is almost an hour long. I leave the house a bit before 8 and don’t normally get home until close to 6. I only have about 3 hours by the time I’m home to do shit before I need to go to bed so I’m not totally exhausted for the next day. 2 day weekends don’t feel like enough time. I spend one day recovering from how exhausted I am and the other day doing everything I didn’t have the energy to do through the week. I’m tired.

I’m not sure where exactly to post this, I’m mainly looking for advice on how my wife and I should approach this issue with our company. My pregnant wife and I (married) work at the same company in RI (for the last 7 years) and are having a child at the end of January. FMLA states that if two spouses work for the same company, they are only entitled to 12 weeks of leave total. I think this is an absolute ridiculous clause, but that is beside the point. Rhode Island has its own Family / Parental Leave act called RIPFMLA, which has some slight differences, one of them being that there is no the limitation on sharing the leave allotment for spouses at the same company. The HR department at our company is claiming Paternity leave is not covered under this state leave policy and that only birthing /…

Is it sad that I’m more excited to get a break from this hell hole of a job than to actually spend time with my soon to be newborn? I feel guilty, but I really can’t wait to get away from this crap for 12 weeks.

I just got back to work after a 2 month leave of absence. I told my manager I can't work full time anymore and would like to transfer out of her department back to part time. She's fine with it but the transfer takes some time. While I was gone she hired another person. So now I'm in this limbo where she's not giving me any hours, doesn't need me etc. But technically I'm supposed to have my old job back for now so she really should be giving me hours in the meantime. Also I have to take a pay cut to go back to part time, which sucks but whatever, it's the choice I need to make right now. The other sucky part of all this is that my “full time” job doesn't even really have enough work to be full time and before I left I was…

It makes me lowkey upset to see so many Redditors say they make six figure and are still struggling. Making six figures is unobtainable for the vast majority of Americans, and as much Redditors like to suggest get rich quick schemes like the trades, it still doesn’t work out for the vast majority. That is the reality

Hey guys, I just applied for a job and they emailed me asking for some professional references (which I find a little ridiculous because it's an entry-level job paying barely above minimum wage, but I digress). I have less than 24 hours to respond to even be considered for the position, and I was wondering if anyone here could help? I literally do not have anyone. I have no real references because I'm fresh in the workforce, and I can't have friends do it because they all sound blatantly young because, frankly, they are. Is anyone here willing to vouch for me? I know it's kind of a big ask but I need a job. It's a child-centered job, so it would be helpful if you could even just say I babysat your kids or something. Please just let me know. Thank you so much in advance!