Month: September 2023

I recently left an establishment that I worked at for 2 years. The business accepted tips for the employees, but instead of distributing the tips, they would use the money to stock the break room for everyone. Recently a bunch of us left, some with knowledge on the amount of tips we were receiving vs. the amount of things they would provide us with. There’s also a slew of other violations and hazards, but I mainly wanted to know if it was worth pursuing legally, and how to go about it.

Not sure what to do. Past month I've gotten about 10-12 hours per week. It's a part time job while I'm in college, so I didn't expect much, but this is really lowballing it. I've already talked with my manager asking for more hours, but they said they couldn't, blaming different things from my schedule and my work performance, but primarily being overstaffed. I'm pretty sure they're trying to get rid of me and by giving me less hours they're hoping I'll quit. This week I've been given 0 hours on the schedule. What should I even say to my manager? The job actually pays over double minimum wage, which is amazingly rare for a fast food job where I live, so I didn't really want to give up this job. And now after their shady tactics, I really don't want to quit if nothing else than to just spite…

For background: my parents are divorced/ hate each other. My father (50) has worked for the same company for 26 years. He recently switched roles to have more time to attend college. While I am proud of him, I (F 21) am also supposed to be in college. It has been a bit of a struggle to only receive help from my mother, who can’t work full time because of health issues with her leg. I just found out from my brother the other day that my dad got fired from his job. This upsets me for multiple reasons: 1. I feel bad because he’s been with the company for 25 years. 2. I’m dealing with my own health issues right now and really needed his health insurance for any surgeries or medication. 3. He’s told me before that he’s been trying to get fired so he has more time…

I just delivered a project on GCP (Google Cloud Platform) which took me 3 days of deploy properly including all the best practices. But as soon as I have deployed everything, my access to the Cloud platform is revoked and the person whom I was working for has claimed it to be not done properly. Now, how do you handle such a scenario, on one end we all want to leave of 9 to 5 jobs so that we can work anywhere anytime as a freelancer and on the otherhand, the freelancing world is so corrupt and unprofessional. I am very saddened by this fraud, I am having a hard time at my job, recently created some freelancing profiles to shift to freelance work and the first project which I did, I am literally being cheated. What do I do to avoid such fraud in the future? The buyer is…

365 days a year. Still can't make ends meet. My rent will be going up at the end of the year like it always does so I have to pick up more hours too. I work 40 hours M-F and 16 during the weekend. I have no credit card debt, my student loans are paid off, and my car is from 2012. Is anyone else “living the dream”?

I knew when I signed up for all the benefits that I very well may need them and here's what I learned. Don't pay for the disability packages, getting that approved was near impossible, I did not get enough time for a recovery anyway, and I never even got all the money I was owed. Also the money I did get came literally months after I was already back to work. Plan on quitting for a while if you have an emergency. The add ons that say they help with any extra hospital costs: never saw any benefit to those and I've been in the ER, seeing specialists multiple times a week, had a major surgery, never saw any benefit to these. Don't pay for the lawyer service. Just be a good person and always keep a paper trail. Keep copies of all documents. Record calls with your HR (of…

I worked for a private, family-owned consulting firm. The work itself was good but the environment was toxic due to the lack of HR and oversight. I felt like the owners of the business were trying to push me out and ultimately they let me go this week, saying “our priorities were not aligned.” I didn't make a fuss about it though. The place got increasingly more toxic in the last few months and I was already casually applying for other jobs. Now my time is freed up to job hunt while I'm getting severance. Yay for not being tied down to shitty jobs!

I’ve been trying to write this post for a few weeks, just didn’t know how to say it. I left my job (nonprofit agency focusing on providing service for homeless people) for another job in the same industry with a better benefits and pay. I absolutely loved my previous position, the people were phenomenal and extremely knowledgeable about their work. It was a very small team of 10 people total, and we were all very close with each other. My only gripe about the job was the fact that the pay was low and that 3 of the 10 people in my department were the managers. Usually this meant we were saddled with 60+ hours of work that we couldn’t handle and were never allowed overtime to complete. Anyway I got an offer for almost 30% higher pay and benefits that wouldn’t come out of my pocket as much. The…

Have been working with this company for a few years. Crush my work, and occasionally fill in on another role when that person can't make it. That position is highly specialized, very difficult, and I don't enjoy it at all. So I make sure I'm paid as much as their regular worker when I do it. As a result of my recent request for a bump on those days the budget person called me up and told me we're not allowed to discuss wages (which is probably not legal here in NE US). So as a result they can find someone else to do the hard job (it will probably take 6 weeks of training lol).