Month: September 2023

Over the past few days, I've been dealing with what is best described as a shitshow of training that lead to the situation of repeatedly creating an unsafe environment, perhaps clinically so, for patients and employees at the job I tried to make work. I've been dismissed by everyone from OSHA to random reddit commenters. No one apparently understands the equipment and the issue well enough to understand the clear and present danger the incidents represented. Not even the upper management that is supposed to train me and initiate proper shutdown of equipment, should I, for example get really stressed about the fact we could have died and leave early one shift so shutting down would fall on them. So why would I go back to work? Follow up question, why should I work at all? In my education, I was trained to work in a lab environment. I was…

I take phone calls, and when we're busy, I take extra time (like 5 to 10 minutes) between calls to cool off. I always told my boss I was doing this, and they never said anything. One day, the boss's boss's boss was watching our que and noticed what I was doing and immediately told my boss to tell me to stop. They did, casually, and I stopped. A few days later, they came back saying they were told they had to make it official and give me a written/verbal warning I have to sign. I was never coached on using my time like that prior to this. My boss is pretty cool, so I don't blame them, I know it was the big boss's doing, but I feel like I shouldn't have to sign this. Is this a “legal” move, or could I report this to HR? I'm fed…

I’m so sick of restaurants!! They think they can do anything they want. I work as a captain at a resto in the West Village. Last month I was feeling really sick and I honestly thought I was having a heart attack. After seeing a dr I found out I had a very bad case of shingles that had attacked the nerve system on my left side and that’s what was causing my intense chest pain and dizziness. I was put in quarantine for a week this illness caused me to seek additional medical care and it turned out I have Cancer the shingles was due to my weakened immune system. My job pretended to be supportive for about 5 minutes but then gave away what was supposed to be my first shift back at work to another employee leaving my check short. My boss was a major dick and…

A couple weeks ago, a 3rd party staffing agency reached out via LinkedIn to see if I'd be interested in interviewing for a position with their client. I told them that I wasn't aggressively looking at the moment, but I'm always open to exploring new opportunities. If it was a great fit, then all the better. Another thing to consider is that this role was going to start contract-to-hire, so I was already 'meh' about leaving my FT perm job for this. But the hiring manager hyped up the opportunity to grow within her team, and that was appealing to me since there really isn't a career path at my current job. After a couple web interviews with the agency and the hiring manager, they invited me to come in for an in-person to meet the team and see the office. As a side note, I had to take 2…

Once companies get out of these leases will there be more remote jobs? Or will it always be a power and control thing at the end of the day

I’m 17f and have been at this store for over a year, my starting pay was $10 and has not changed since, I live with my girlfriend who also works at the same store also making $10. We both have to contribute to bills and groceries because her mom recently got a pay cut and it’s a struggle. I asked my boss for a raise and she looked at me and sweetly said “how does $11/hour sound”. If I didn’t need and like my job as much as I do I’d have walked right out. Over a year of service with literal blood sweat and tears spilled to only be worth an extra dollar?!?!!!!? Literally the only reason I haven’t quit yet is because of my friends working in my department being really cool and I struggle to form friendships and don’t want to let this connection go. I’d appreciate…

Just wanted an expert opinion here. My wife is trying to get out of a job that grossly misrepresented what it was. But apparently they had made her sign a thing saying she has to give a 30 day notice or she’d owe them a fee of $1500. That feels… illegal? I know she signed a thing, but signing a thing doesn’t make the illegal legal. Is this kind of thing legit, and if not, does anybody have some advice on how to negotiate out of it? Thanks!

I need to take two days off but I won’t be doing in community work etc. I need to travel. What do I say? How can I get two consecutive days.

Basically the title… I have ADHD, so punctuality is already a weak spot for me but I’ve gotten a lot better at it, however I’ve noticed with with my jobs in the past and my current one, I just can’t get myself to leave for work because I’m dreading going to it in the first place…so naturally I’m late..and naturally my boss and coworkers who are so passionate about their minimum wage jobs are annoyed… It’s funny though because overall I’m a good worker (going off many customers remarks regarding my work and my disposition) yet me being late by even a minute practically erases all and any good things about my work… I’ve also noticed as I start to burn out I can’t keep up my performance, on top of the fact that your performance is never good enough as there’s always something that you can do better (I’m…

After a national or global disaster/emergency, typically huge policy initiatives are landed that help the lives of a nation's people. For example, after WW2, many nations began having affordable/taxpayer-funded healthcare. After COVID, the U.K. changed its student loan regulations to help students/college-educated people with their loans. Canada stopped interest on their student loans help of the government. Interest started accumulating for student loans in the U.S. today. No debt relief for most. We did get the SAVE plan that helps with payments but only covers the interest when subsidized. We don't change to help the people anymore. We didn't even add mandatory paid sick leave or paid family leave following COVID. Just insanity.