Month: September 2023

This is from 2019 and please pardon my English as it's not my first language. I am from India, and we have way too many teaching/tutoring/coaching centers that run along with a type of institution called “Study Abroad Education”. Here, sometimes, you have people working, who have close connections with people in the USA (and other countries) who can help a student set up a life there (legally) and may guide them for writing the SOPs and LORs. Think of them as admission counsellors but operating in a private capacity. There's an institute that was recently busted for faking/copying LORs, but I guess that news never went mainstream. That event has sort of served many such institutes to be on their toes and not be a cheat. (Many still are, sadly.) I was working at once such institute. It was all nice and dandy, but the institute was run by…

I work as an editor at a publishing company that deals in foreign translated novels. We editors basically get paid shit while translators make about quadruple our pay. I've always noticed that this particular translator's work was always chalk full of errors and inconsistencies, but I just thought maybe they weren't fully fluent in English and I was just doing my job fixing everything. I take pride in my work and always did my best to edit everything to perfection despite the shitty pay for the sake of the original authors. I was doing way more work than what I was getting paid for. One day, a higher up told me I was cutting too much of the translations even though I explained to them that it was for the best. Just simple things like run-ons, excessive passive voice and weak verbs, clauses that didn't need to be extended with…

Hey y'all 1st time caller, long time…. Yeah. Been working for almost 30 years now. Almost always a worker, never a manager (at least officially titled). Multiple fields. All to do with me doing work with my hands. BOH kitchens, bartending, blacksmith, machinist, beertender/retailer, auto mechanic; I been around. I've had my good and shit bosses. And I've been taking notes… I am giving serious consideration into buying the business I am at now, a specialty auto repair shop. We do enough business to keep the lights on, have a LOYAL customer base, and have pretty low overhead. So I feel like, if I do this, and take the right steps, I can run an equitable business in the Capitalist Dystopia we call the USA. Now, I've been a lurker here since almost the beginning… Well, begining of the pandemic. So I want to reach out, and ask for some…

I just got accepted into a part-time job after an extremely thorough and concerning interview process, in a country I just moved to. They've been increasingly showing major red flags, but I need an income, and it's the furthest I've gotten with an application since moving here five months ago. This will be a long one, and me really just hoping for some support with this… mods, if this isn't allowed, please feel free to remove. I'm living in the country I have citizenship in for the first time; I grew up and spent my life in another country, it's home to me, and I found work there quite easily – or, well, at least I knew how to find work that paid enough to get by on and save. My resume and portfolio was all I ever needed. I won't get into it as it's upsetting, but I had…

I'm honestly just curious and not sure if this is against the rules, but what does everybody here do and make hourly? I make $37 an hour as an industrial mechanic/millwright, mostly as a result of smart job hopping after gaining useful skills and having ChatGPT rewrite my resume. I get 2 weeks of PTO and a week off sick time which kinda blows.

so made a dumb mistake and wanted some help on what i should do if the worse happens. i got hired for a job recently worked one night and decided it wasn’t for me. i never signed any paperwork, never gave them a copy of my ssn or anything like that. i did clock in for the shift on paper. i let my boss know i wasn’t coming back and asked when to come in to sign the paperwork but heard nothing from them. was hoping for some advice on what to do if they don’t pay me or try to say i never showed up for the shift since i think that might be where this is going. (this is my first post sorry if this isn’t the right place for this)

I don't know if this belongs here. For some reason the place I used to work made all employees register for an an employment website in our state. Allegedly it helped with our new HR website/software. I discovered that people with my skills are very sought after and found a new job……

I (28M) lost my job back in June. A job I always wanted to be in. I moved cross country. I went to school. I did everything I could to get what I thought was my dream job and yet I got fired. Told I was incompetent and lazy. I am the primary bread winner while my wife is SAHW. And now our income has been slashed and we're struggling to make ends meet. I have a new job but it's barely carrying us and I feel like the biggest let down to my wife. She loves me but I hate the pain of it all knowing we're struggling.

I work in a restaurant and my boss lowered my pay so I stopped upselling. Probably cost him more than double what the pay cut is so far. Fight the power!