Month: September 2023

I am so mad right now. So trying to type this all out legibly. I work at a very small division of a big corporate media company. The department I work in is small. I have worked there since December 2021 along with my partner who has been with this company since 2018. Both of us made minimum wage. (7.25 in my state) Summer 2022, my partner meets with the boss to request a pay increase. They give us a 0.43 cent raise. Cut to a few weeks ago. We have a new member of our department and she lets slip that she is making $10 an hour. 30% more than me, if my math is correct. This girl has zero experience in this department and has been trained by me. Come to find out that two former members of our department, all hired on after myself and my partner,…

For context I'm the warehouse supervisor for a 3rd party service center working inside a major food manufacturers factory. I've just handed my notice with request to leave in 3 weeks but been told 4 weeks due to contract. I'm 2 weeks into this notice period not once have I been asked to show others in the management team how to do my job. New management team arrived weeks ago due to all bosses jumping ship for compotators, so nobody really knows how this place operates! we have a client review due this month and the area I am responsible for is key focus for keeping the contract, due to my employer underestimating the effort it will take to replace me and leaving it last minute I'm just deciding to chill out watching Netflix until I can go home. if i work the full 4 weeks it will be a…

If so, what was your experience like? Are they a good union to be a part of?

And I'm not one to nickel & dime, but seriously? A nickel and a dime?

So, I am set to start a new part time job today. The manager told me to show up 8AM to start my onboarding process, and I have been here since 7:45, just waiting outside the store. I plan on waiting until 8:30 and if I don't see another worker or human by then, I'll be leaving my resignation in their mailslot. I'll let you know how it goes. Edit: Welp. Back to the search

I’ve been to at least 5/6 interviews and It takes me 200 applications to even get any of them Usually the companies hiring are the rubbish ones where nobody wants to work, my only options right now is working a bottom barrel job scraping (if I even get accepted) or stay unemployed while searching and applying every day There is so much saturation in the application process. Thousands and thousands of people dying for a crappy job lol I swear I’m tired of getting rejected for dumb reasons, because everyone is fighting tooth and nail for a spot At the end of the day it’s just a job and this level of competition just to become a 9/5 wagey isn’t worth all the effort? This isn’t the economy I saw 2 years ago, where I would land a job just after 2 interviews It seems like everyone has lost their…

Let's say, for the sake of argument, that I'm going to pay you quadrupole the median salary for your region, for the rest of your life, inflation adjusted, no questions asked. What would you actually do with yourself? Asking, because I'm pretty sure I'd just turn in to an alcoholic.

TLDR: I am an adjunct instructor at a private college and not an employee. I began getting paid this semester, have no classes, and was never given a contract. What legal liability if any do I have to return funds? I have been teaching at a local school for 5-6 years. Each Spring we're given as adjuncts an idea of where our credits will be used as we can only teach so many classes as an adjunct; 3 classes in the Spring, 1 in the Summer, 2 in the Fall for example. It's not bound in stone, and if anything more is added from my experience. At any rate, I taught in the Spring and was told I woulnd't be teaching in the Summer due to them overloading my Fall. Awesome, I took the summer off and all was well enough. Over the end of summer, I began to create…

“Baaack in my day we used to WORK to pay off our college debt and go broke if we couldn't!!!” Sooo instead of breaking down the lock to a healthy lifestyle after education and hard work to pass college in the first place, and removing the debt barrier, we should double down and have the same system under an even harsher capitalist economy? Should we bring back some other home runs like slavery, no ramps for those pesky disabled people, barefoot and pregnant kitchen slavery..? You know, becase it would be unfair to those people that struggled that we now get to be a little more free in certain aspects?