Month: September 2023

so my job stopped putting me on the schedule 3 weeks ago now. i immediately contacted my sm the first week asking why and apparently someone else had told him i ‘needed a break’ despite me never saying anything to him or anyone else. maybe made an offhand comment about being tired but never said anything about needing time off, never put in a request. i told my sm this and he said i would be put back on the schedule. but it’s now week three and despite me calling my sm, sending multiple messages every week when the schedule comes out and even going to the store and speaking with him in person i still have not been put on the schedule. for background, the sm was moved to my location about two months ago from another store and brought about 4-5 people with him which resulted in several…

I’m referring to under 10 mins late. And for my job (paralegal) it has never mattered. It’s frustrating that my boss confronted me about this. I got my employee of the month nomination rescinded because of this. Literally wtf. Months of hard work ignored because im late a few times. It’s like they ignore all the hours and hours of hard work I put in, how much extra time and effort that I contributed, and the fact that I barely ever take my 30 minute break at work. I even came in to cover coworkers who called out and agreed to last minute schedule changes. They take and take and take. But the moment you make one mistake, all of the good is instantly forgotten. I also bought in tons of expensive donuts and food and stationary for my coworkers. And my bosses seemed much colder towards me all of…

I’ve been in the restaurant/bar industry for a long time, and in my experience tip outs are pretty standard. Servers and bartenders pay a portion of their tips to the food runners, barbacks, etc, the amount is based on a percentage of our food/liquor sales, and it’s automatically deducted from our tips on our end-of-shift report. I currently bartend at a huge venue, it’s part of a multi-billion dollar corporation. Lately my venue has been short on barbacks, and a few days last week I didn’t have one at all, which meant that I had to fulfill the barback duties in addition to my own. Later I did my shift report and noticed that the barback tip out (equal to 2% of my total liquor sales) was deducted from my tips, so I asked why I had to pay it, and my manager told me it’s always deducted whether there’s…

At my job we start out with 3 weeks PTO and we can buy an extra week off if we so choose. We then have a fee taken out of our check of about $20 each week for a year. What does the sun think of this?

Hey guys, Historically , I've workee 3-5 years before looking for new work. Ive been working my current job for 6 months, and starting to hate it – jobs fine, the company itself is ran by fools. Question is, should I update my resume with this job? worried it's raise concerns, like ” why are you leaving so soon?” Thoughts?

I've always worked in retail; my whole working life. I wouldn't say I like it, but I would say I have a really good grasp at “being an employee” and customer service from all this time in the trenches. Recently, I thought it would be a nice idea to branch out, try something new. Boy was I wrong. I took a job as a merchandiser for one of the big three soda companies. This means I was going in to grocery stores all over my city to unload delivery trucks, stock the shelves and organize the backrooms. Simple, right? Psh. I had a nasty, belittling bully for a boss who seemed to think I was too lazy and too stupid to STOCK SODA CORRECTLY. He would take photos of my work, tell me it's wrong, and refuse to explain how to do it right. He would publicly shame photos of…

I’ve been dealing with a period of insomnia caused by stress, because of my job, and have been trying to fix my sleep schedule. When looking online for tips, I can’t help but feel a sense of learned helplessness. “Don’t look at any screens, eat, or look at social media two hours before bed” – I work 11 hour days and hardly get a chance to look at my phone. I get home at 9 and aim to get to bed at 11 so I guess I shouldn’t have a life outside of work and skip dinner to fix my sleep schedule. “Work out in the afternoon” – yeah I’m not taking my lunch break at true gym thanks “Avoid stress” – lol The only thing I can do is get 8 hours of sleep, wake up at 7 and have 45 minutes to get ready to leave. So I…

So in April I made a mistake at work that didn't hurt productivity or cost the company anything, it just caused me to have to change the dates in a log book for a three day period and notate the issue. My supervisor, however, seemed to blow his lid at my mistake. He cursed at me and acted like I was incompetent, even though the mistake was fairly minor. Fast forward to August and I am in the process of changing over recipes at work(I work in Distillation and every three or so months we do a recipe change) and I make the same mistake again. This time I'm freaking out because I remember how he responded last time. I make sure this time that I've covered my bases and do everything to correct the paperwork and log book and create a schedule to correct my mistake over the next…

I'm 20 and make $16.50 an hour, get about 5 hours a day. I work 6:00am (I have to get up at 4:30am) to 9:40am, get a break inbetween then come back from 2:10pm-4:40pm. I'm desperately been trying to get a different job, I've applied to over 20 places with little to no result. I was working 3 jobs at one point but got laid off one (the CEO decided multi department employees were no longer allowed after some drama about it, because i was still technically employed by them unemployment wasnt an option) and had to leave the other one (meant to leave TEMPORARILY for the rest of the month but manager basically said no you're done) because i was becoming suicidal from overworking. I'm disabled so standing and walking for long periods of time gives me severe pain. That knocks out jobs like food service, janitorial (contamination ocd…

Instead of giving me a month as per my contract my manager told me that my last day would be today. The news is obviously quite sudden for my team and I also haven’t been given much time to say my goodbyes etc. Guess that’s it. Asshole to the very end.