Month: November 2023

clock in, get yelled at by customers, feel like i’m in everyone’s way, clock out and then my paycheck is like nothing

My mom's story from about 10 years ago. Cracked my cousin and I up so I thought I'd post it here. My mom (“Beth”) was in a meeting with her boss (“George”) and about ten other people. She was talking about something (a safety issue in one of their plants IIRC) and George wanted her to stop talking to he said, “Beth, chill.” My mom didn't particularly like being spoken to in that way, but she stopped talking. Later in the meeting, George wanted her to comment on something and she wasn't saying anything, so he said, “Beth, do you have anything to add on this?” And she said, “No, I'm chilling as directed, George.”

I just found out my company's Unlimited PTO Policy not really Unlimited. My manager capped at 20 days per year. Has this happened to you? How did you handle it? I know that it's never really unlimited, but I was hoping to get at least 30 days off, and not just 20.

This is my first post here, I have a question. Why in the world am i to blame for my seller store being suspended? For context here I had this Etsy account for less that a week, I made a paypal preemptivly for Etsy sales and potential side gigs. Setting up the store wouldn't have been so hard after getting the merch and store name and all that jazz. I finally was able to set up shop on Wednesday/ I then linked a debit card as the way I would pay for the Etsy fees and enabled auto billing. Sometime after my store is up and running, but when I logged on today to check on my store (Friday), It was suspended for $0.60 in unpaid fees, I looked at my bank account and I still have not recived a single charge from Etsy even tho auto-billing was enabled to…

So I've been working in the company (picking up startup) for 3 years and I am the most senior employee. I see that I am very valuable and I am fair and working hard. I am from Poland, the company is from Belgium. My salary is at least 50% lower than enployees in the origin country. I propose 25% of the rise and I got response with 12% of raise and if I don't accept it then good bye. I tried to negotiate to 20, 17, 15% but nothing. Only I have to tell do I accept it becaude they need to adjust to the situatuation (in the other words – you take it or see ya). I understand the differences in the economics, but really? Is it normal around the companies that they prefer waist more money and time in searching and learning new employee in HR proccess? I…

Hello! The position is through a recruiting/contracting agency (3rd party recruiters find employees to work for their customers) The contract agency is responsible for distributing my paycheck and handling my benefits (including PTO) I reached out to the contracting agency multiple times over months to ask them how much PTO I have and if there is a way to check (my paystub has never updated to be reflective of accrual or even the amount of PTO I had used. It has a start, earned, taken, and leave balance that have all remained at 0 despite my taking leave and my supposed to have been accruing time) and was ignored every time. I know I was ignored and the emails were seen because they have 1) responded to the emails, but addressed other things, and 2) one of the emails provided my new address, and they updated my paystub, so I…

I work as a carer assistant for the elderly, honestly almost all the residents are bloody wonderful! However the management is utterly dreadful! we had to deal with 27 residents between only 4 members of staff (alot of times it's just been 2,once just me.) we had no gloves to protect ourselves and residents, and were told to get on with it or leave. we were told to not take our breaks because we fell behind a member of staff ligit fainted from exhaustion, yet they still won't assign enough staff, they just take staff from other areas (often the dementia care side (which needs 5,because 1 person is needed in the lounge) I keep getting pressure into staying a 12 hour shift, the nurse keeps guiling me to do it. If I didn't genuinely love seeing the residents and need money i just wouldn't show up. I didn't even…

So, currently I'm employed with an ad firm and have been contracted in to a large corporation for the last year and a half. I work exclusively with this team and consider them my coworkers. In the last 6 months they've been pushing hard to bring my role internally and went ahead with approaching my boss about hiring me and cancelling my contract for 2024 once HR approved the role to go internally. Well, 2 weeks ago they posted the role and had so many applicants that now I will not even be allowed to post for my current job as planned. I'm absolutely devastated to say the least and the person who is the top applicant was someone I considered a mentor and friend – and knew I'd be likely unemployed if they applied. Luckily my firm is being super supportive and scrambling to find me something and supposedly…

I hate jobs. And I know this is relatable to some, but will also become unrelatable quickly I’m 17, and all of my friends have jobs. I used to have one, but I had to quit. I would scoop ice cream, but the repetitive motion gave me carpal tunnel flareups for days. It just wasn’t sustainable. I really loved that job too. Since then, I haven’t been able to find a job. I’ve applied to 50+. I have muscular skeletal hyper mobility syndrome. Which you may read and go oh yeah, the thumb to wrist thing! While yes, I can do that, it’s honestly ruining my life. I have an insufficient amount of collagen, meaning that my joints will pop out of place, with subluxations or dislocations. These are extremely painful. I can’t stand or walk for long periods of time without a mobility aid. And still being in high…

I work for/with my fiance. I sell his certain items he fabricates. That being said, I do the advertising and pay for it if I can afford it – out of MY pocket. I do this semi full time but being that it’s 90% from my phone and at home nobody considers these a real job. And I’m beginning not to either because the pay is stupid. I generated $5,000 last month. Take out materials $1,400 — leaves $3,600 and he calmly hands me $400 and tells me not to spend it all in one place. Not to mention the leads I b hey and generate he doesn’t act on. That I have put countless hours into speaking and answering questions at all hours of the day and night. (I sold one at 2:30 AM & he did t believe that’s who I was on the phone with till the…