Month: November 2023

I dont know man i have no interest at all to work 40 hours. I am currently working 21 and its been great but i accepted 12 hours extra so i can make more and im not happy at all. I feel so bad though because my boyfriend and mom both think i need to work more. But i just hate it. Right now i work 4 hours a day and i really like it because i leave early and so i have the whole afternoon to myself. But now on saturdays i will work that 12 hour day i mentioned and i am so sad. Just even thinking about being there all day makes me want to lay down and forget about it. Especially on sundays. I go to church and i spend the day with my boyfriend and its so nice i wish it was like that everyday.…

Been bouncing around between retail and fast food work for my whole work life and I'm just over it. My first job I worked for a local pizza shop for a couple years. I'd still be there tbh but it unfortunately went out of business last year. Since then, I've worked 3 separate jobs, all of which have been more or less the same experience. Start off strong, feeling good, feeling like I might have actually found something good for myself, management starts taking advantage (giving me more shit to do, higher expectations, worse hours etc…), taking it on trying to be a good “team player”, get burnt out, work declines, management gets upset I'm not upholding the same quality as I started, I get pissed, I quit. It takes a lot for me to convince myself I'm not the problem. Hell, most of these jobs have people who've worked…

For a little background, we're the only store in a decently sized company that has an overnight shift, so the employee handbook and the policies are explicitly wrong about a lot of stuff that goes on compared to the day shifts. The doors are locked and we're not allowed to leave, even on our breaks with very few exceptions where a manager deals with the security code to let us out. The employee handbook says we should be allowed to leave but the managers all talk about how we're not allowed to do so overnight, with one manager threatening to fire people who don't take lunches despite not being able to leave. At another point a manager (apparently) said if we clock out and try to leave, were technically trespassing. I've looked into it a little, and holding us here might count as false imprisonment, and threatening trespassing like that…

My old job was paying me pennies (15/hr in OR) for 7 years experience at the company + AA in design. I got laid off this week after almost 8 years so I need the work. Only problem: It's part time. I need a minimum of 40k to stay afloat and not struggle. I'd hit the mark if i did 30hrs a week and asked for decent pay. I'm tempted to try and negotiate for at least $26.50 but that seems asinine to me, like a ton of money after living paycheck to paycheck for 7 years. But I also have almost a decade of professional experience + 14 years contract experience. The hours and wage weren't listed but its a government job so itd be a good opportunity. Should I ask or not? I figured this reddit would know what's reasonable to ask for living wages and what's crazy.

I have one week of sick days each year at my company- use them or lose them by end of year. This is my first year there and I didn’t call in all year bc I wasn’t sick plus I wanted to make a good impression. Well my kid got sick so I called in to take care of sick child. My work took a vacation day. When I asked about it they said we told you that when you started and it’s in the handbook that sick days are only for you. I am so behind all the time I cannot imagine using up my remaining sick days plus u need a dr nite if it’s three days in a row. It just infuriates me.

I think I am getting fired. I had great performance reviews in the past and have had great feedback and a plan for development. Recently there have been discussions about taking my work and giving it to other people. There was also a conversation with HR on RTO. This has been all happening over the past month. Before that it was all normal and I really liked my job. I am not sure what to do. I wanted to stay at the company and thought I had chances to work my way up the ladder but that all seems impossible right now. Maybe I am just overthinking it but I have started to get worried. Its just messed up because no one is being upfront with me about it. I would have at least appreciated the opportunity to look for another team within the company.

Writing on mobile so sorry if the format is off. I, 21F, work part time in retail as a cashier until I finish college and get into a full time gig. I’ve been working at this store for maybe 6-7 months now so not for long. I usually only work weekends. I used to not work with this head cashier very often because of this but lately she’s been with me every Sunday shift for the past 2 or 3 months now. Every single shift she’s bothering only me, I’m thinking it might be because we’re around the same age? No other head cashiers, assistant managers, shift leads, supervisors or even the store manager make any complaints about me, in fact I was recently called into the office and awarded for my fast progress and my reviews from customers. But for some reason this one women feels the need to…