I've had to attend multiple staff development meetings over the past three years and bristle whenever I hear the solution to stress and burnout in the workplace being “take deep breaths” and, “practice mindfulness”. It's never: Pay people a living wage”, or, “universal healthcare”, or, “paid leave/adequate PTO”.
A company that I started working for this year in January failed me on my PIP, after I received approval for WFH for my cancer treatment, and I found another company that hired me in less than a week from the interview. But I erased and combined my short stints with my previous companies so that they would judge me based on my skills and responsibilities, instead of my poor relationships with my previous employers. For several years I have struggled to keep a job. When I was in college, I needed credits in order to graduate, and I struggled to make it into the big companies, but I worked for smaller ones, but I was hired as a temp/contractor where my employers had no intention of retaining me or offering further training. I struggled for a year after college to find a job, because I graduated into the pandemic,…
Due to their mishandling of an inclement weather day this week, we “fell behind” schedule and were informed tonight (Friday) that we have to work tomorrow a full shift or get pointed. It should be illegal to mandate a shift without at least a day advanced notice.
I am tempted to apply. https://preview.redd.it/94x170y5mrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b3fbe62ce55b88804277bf1bdeab019f05fa165 https://preview.redd.it/n92ijqw8mrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b024bd72abc377e61c8557def44126f2f6de4a08 https://preview.redd.it/vw3mdkbbmrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d88c5597478eca26ea8d2ffbc69d862cda7d303
I've already got another job lined up, and I'm amazed at how much my GAF meter has plummeted. I work in a brick factory that has productivity requirements for the employees. Normally I wouldn't mind that, except for the fact that we aren't allowed to take any downtime for mechanical failures or other such issues that aren't the employee's fault. This leads to being penalized (usually by being put on a PIP) for not meeting quota. Recently, we had a meeting where it was heavily implied that if we don't leave our break (2x 15min) or lunch (1x25min) early to address problems, then we'll be held accountable for any quota shortfalls. Seriously? Our breaks are paid, but if your production quotas are so important that I can't take 25mins out of a 12-hour shift to eat, there's a problem. DAE think this is ridiculous, or am I being unreasonable?
How am I supposed to find someone in less than an hour when there are only some people with available phone numbers, half of the people I text are busy, and a third of them don't respond because I only gave them an hour's notice? When you're sick, you're SICK. You can't be going in and potentially infecting not only all of your coworkers but also everyone who comes into the store to buy the food that YOU MAKE. There could be customers with disabilities who are counting on my manager not forcing contagious people to make their food. My manager is the one who schedules as few people as possible so she doesn't have to pay people. Why is it my responsibility to make up for her refusal to prepare for this?
So I was trying to submit a labor violation in my state and I got curious about how other states handled labor violation complaints. Turns out, it's very mixed, some are limited, others extensive, some tried to hide their complaints and violation processes very hard, others made it easy AF. So here's a big list of links for y'all so you can find out your rights as it pertains to your state or territory if you live in the US and links to ways to file a claim/complaint if your boss violates them. Federal: General Complaint: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/contact/complaints Discrimination: https://www.dol.gov/agencies/oasam/centers-offices/civil-rights-center/internal/statutes-regulations Apparent Violation: https://www.dol.gov/sites/dolgov/files/ETA/mas/pdfs/Complaint_Apparent_Violation_Form_8429.pdf Alabama: Claim Info (They're basically “call or take it with the feds”): https://labor.alabama.gov/equal_opportunity.aspx Alaska: Claim form: https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/forms/wageclaim.PDF Health & Safety: https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/forms/OSH_complaint_form.pdf Rights: https://labor.alaska.gov/lss/whfaq.htm Arizona: Complaints & Rights (It's all very easy to access and out in front): https://www.azica.gov/divisions/labor-department Arkansas: Access to Claims (Just go down to the “Labor…
I feel like every little bit helps. Anyone else have small things they do?
I had an interview for assistant-manager for a big restaurant chain, this is a job I have quite a bit of experience in. I went to the interview thinking my job would entail planning and training staf, ordering, marketing, social media, finances etc. During the hour long interview I figured out marketing and training are centralised, finances is done once a week in the afternoon and ordering is done by the kitchen. I asked what I would be doing on a day to day basis and he described the head waiter position with a few administrative tasks. I wouldn't even be making the schedules, so I can't plan my own hours (which is normally a benefit from being the assistant-manager). The guy told me to think about the job offer and contact him, but I told him then and there that I'm way too good at my job to work…