Month: November 2023

I am new-ish at my job, on day 62 of my 90 day probation period. My kid got sick on the school bus this morning headed to school and I had to go pick him up. I’m having trouble finding someone to come watch my sick kid (obviously). Fridays are our busiest days. My boss’s boss says to try not to take off Fridays. So I cringed and called my boss. Her response? “It’s not a problem. If you come in late, come on in. If you need the day, take the day. Take care of your baby. Breathe, you sound stressed.” 🤯 I’m in my 30s and I’ve NEVER worked for or with people so great. They’ve been amazing since day one. I’m a single mom of two and my son is autistic. He rides a special bus to a special school. During the interview I asked my now-boss…

People that leave are not replaced at my work. The remaining people are lazy and when someone takes off, it puts a lot of burden on the remaining employees. Is there anything I can do legally, cus it's affecting my mind. Ontario, Canada. Federally regulated company.

I can’t tell if this is because my job pays a dollar over ONT new min wage or if it’s because I am used to a harder work life. Management doesn’t seem to care all that much. The job interview mentioned lower pay. The coworkers are all relaxed. It’s actually a nice place to work. They keep wanting better work but don’t actually have a plan. It’s funny I guess. Is it me, or is it that I took a job that’s for kids who are right out of high school or just average people who can’t find better. I might have turned into a crappy employee.

Hi everyone! I was employed at a retail store on a casual basis in April. However, I have not been rostered for 4 months (since June). During this time I've found another job more related to the degree I am studying. Over time, I've completely forgotten the availability days I've put down as they require staff to do so one month in advance and I have been so overwhelmed with my other 2 jobs and exams and assignments. Recently, I randomly decided to check my roster and it turns out I have been rostered to work tomorrow (Saturday). I immediately sent a resignation to my manager over email effective immediately, yet I have not received a response and it has been over three days. Now I am wondering if I should still show up for my shift and if I don't, what should I say when they contact me?

They’ve been dirtying up this place the whole month I’ve been here. There’s a ducking orange ring around the toilet. According to them it’s MY JOB TO CLEAN THE WHOLE OFFICE AS WELL AS MY OTHER DUTIES!! I don’t want to say I quit but I don’t want to say I’m not comfortable doing that and then get fired and not be able to collect unemployment. I’m in NY btw. They said that it’s in the list they put on the notes app in the iPad for things I have to do but I never saw it until she said something. They could’ve at least reminded me before a month went by and everything got so disgusting. I have to do it before the end of the day. How tf am I showing off houses, entering things in their tax software and fucking scrubbing toilets all in the same day?!…

Boss gave me so much positive feedback at our regular check-ins just to get me to keep overworking then gave me a scathing review full of -1s and -2s when it would have been time to promote me. Just a reminder to never trust them. I’ve already secured another job that, unfortunately, won’t start until after the holidays (so January.) I’ll need to stay at this job until at least December 1 for insurance purposes, ideally would wait until the end of the month to resign for financial reasons. It’s going to be a slog to have to pretend to not be completely checked out.

So I'm in a predicament. I left my last job because they were breaking labor laws so I sued and we settled, got everything I was owed. While that was going on I moved to a different small business and worked there for about a year. This place has all kinds of red flags waving around and it's become very clear that this place is not making money. Hours were cut unexpectedly so I went and got another job, I now only work at the other place every other weekend. At that job we have three ways of making tips, two of which should eventually reflect on our first paycheck of the month in which we get all of the tips we made the previous month and the other is obviously cash. Tips are recorded on a spreadsheet, my manager adds them up, then emails them to the payroll/hr lady…

Growing up, what were the biggest misconceptions and hard truths you had to find out the hard way, about capitalism?