Month: November 2023

Is it possible to initiate unionization, forcing a delay in someone being fired? What steps would be needed to force such an event?

Ive been in retail management for over 20 years. Recently, I've noticed that hourly employees are expected to “make up” missed hours. I understand this when you are a salaried employee who is under contract to work a certain number of hours per week to meet requirements. Why is this necessary for those only being paid for the exact amount of time they've worked?

Hello! I apologize if this is not the right board to post this in, it’s just the most similar one i can find. I’m trying to keep this vague, to face no repercussions. My store manager, male almost 30, was texting a my coworker, female 16, about non work related topics. They would text good morning and goodnight and text almost all the time. It became gossip around the store, because we thought it was weird. It eventually got back to my store manager, and he is now saying anyone who talks about it will be fired automatically. Is he allowed to do this, or is this just an attempt to cover for himself? I could care less about getting fired, i hate the fucking job. I just have coworkers that are worried they’ll get fired. also, is this texting situation as weird as we all feel it is?

I’m scheduled for one of my company’s recognized holidays but since I work night shift, I’m only gonna get time and a half for the first 5hrs of my shift. It’s just bullshit to me idk, I think I should get holiday pay for the full 12hrs.

I work for a large healthcare organization in IT. We had an emergency zoom this week where an executive announced a voluntary separation program. We can “elect” to leave for extra severance. No more than 15% of us can leave. If not enough of us leave it will be involuntary the first week of December. I don’t know what to do. The involuntary will be done solely based on seniority without manager input. I don’t know where that puts me in the mix, I have 18 months on my team and am the newest hire. But this is across a division and I don’t know how many people or what my chances are. I feel like I’m dropped into the Hunger Games

Last month i was very low on expenses and house hold stuffs. So i took loan from bank according to due date its after my salary day. I just shared it with a stupid colleague, i don't know what he's gonna get tell those things to boss. Now I'm gonna get paid late. it's not like I'm getting paid millions, I'm working over time, doing everything said, yet i have no value. And I can't see to take another loan to fill that loan as solution for now. and due date passed now. got to pay over due and panelty. this month is gonna be hard again.

Title. If I was doing a prestigious or very important office job where I needed some important info ASAP, or it was over zoom or something, I would understand and really wouldn't mind. But this is a retail job that barely pays over minimum wage, supposedly it's just a meeting about how we do everything wrong and we don't listen, and the manager doing the ol' 'there's gonna be some big changes around here' meeting. Of course this is my problem, not theirs, but I live 45 minutes away. Naturally I feel pretty frustrated I have to get ready for work, to spend an hour and a half driving just to get just yelled at for an hour, waste of my time and gas. And on top of that, the meeting is on a day my availability is closed. I have a second job(because I'd starve on what they pay…