Month: November 2023

So long story short, I’m pretty sure work is going to ask me to switch to nights because other employees have either quit or aren’t trained well enough. I did work nights for roughly three years and it was a leading cause of poor health, both mental and physical, and also a main contributing factor to my addiction to alcohol. Luckily I got off nights and I’ve been able to turn myself around. I’m in a much better place now and have been very happily sober for coming up to a year pretty soon. Amongst other things like quality of life, and passtime activities, I’m doing better. What I’m curious about is it possible to get a doctor to write me a note or something to help me stay off nights? I’ve had other co workers who were able to dodge it by claiming sleep apnea with a doctors note,…

After 2 years working for this tech company, 13 roles were eliminated today including mine. It was sudden and shocking. Each manager sent a 10 min meeting invite to each employee. By the time it was my turn I already knew and to add, the company is 100% remote. I had less than 5 minutes with my manager telling me about the decision and thanking me for my time with the company. I could barely respond without my voice cracking. It was so incredibly painful for that to be the last conversation after 2 years. They did as much as they could to handle it with kindness. Everyone received a severance and I was advised I can be rehired and that this wasn't due to my performance or something I did wrong. Either way I'm so incredibly sad. During the meeting they start deactivating your accounts. So you just see…

My friends and I are currently disagreeing over this. Though it seems intuitive that most people would no longer work, it's difficult to create an argument from a strictly philosophical perspective. Essentially, put the fact that working is a societal structure and that capitalism is inherently unfavorable towards workers. I guess it would be important to define what work even constitutes (would certain hobbies or activities not be seen as work?). The only thing I'm able to reason is that working is only instrumental for what we really want (recognition, not be bored, etc.).

I'm frankly insulted by this. I'm a CNA, for a year at this point. A year that started out with me working 184 days straight, with atleast 10 hour shifts each day, with no overtime(I did this for the family, as they wouldn't be able to afford the overtime premium, and were unable to find another caregiver to take care of their loved one, as he was a very difficult patient). Then, on top of that, picking up countless shift on short, sometimes literally, no notice. Staying extra hours, when my relief is late or no show, sometimes hours later. And then there was one time where I worked 20 hours in a 24 hour time period. All of this, helped to keep clients, and keep the office people from having to fill in. I've only been late twice in the last year. Once was 10 mins late, due to…

I work with a manager who micromanages me to the max. I have twice the number of years of pharmacy experience as her. I work as a pharmacist and she does she. Some of the things she has micromanaged me on include: -Berating me for asking for the patient’s surname before their first name when they request for their prescriptions or repeat prescriptions which I need to look up on the pharmacy software system. I look up the surname first because the software asks for the surname first before the first name. I find that asking for the surname first narrows the results down to a few patients whereas if I input the first name first, there’s way too many results, i.e. there’s heaps of Peter’s or John’s. Her reasoning was that patient’s know their first names first so I should ask for their first name first. – When a…

Hi, HR recently contacted because I was misclassified as a non-exempt employee but was hired under the assumption I’m exempt because I’m paid a salary. This was also in my contract. I’ve never filled in a time card, logged lunches, OT, etc. HR wants me to come back to them with a number of hours of OT that I think I’ve worked. I’ve been at the company for 2.5 years. I feel like on average I work 7hrs (prob higher) of OT a week. My question is, can they come back and deny this number or how can I/they prove it’s wrong/right? I can look at invites, repeating meetings, etc but not sure what they might come back to me with if it’s denied or needs to be reviewed. Any advice is appreciative.

Last year I was making good money as an individual contributor at a staffing firm. Our commission plan is vague at best, but it appeared that anything I had booked would be mine to be paid out for for the duration of the contract. I was offered a promotion to a leadership role in September of last year. The on target earnings would have had me taking a $60,000 pay drop for the year. I was not going to be paid out for any of the bookings I had done. It would all be transferred out to those who would become my subordinates. So I was sacrificing $60,000 in 2022 for the title had I accepted. I declined the position. Leadership couldn’t understand why I wasn’t open to taking such a huge hit to my pay. I had just bought a house, gotten married, and was pregnant. Eight months later…

I’m a musician in NYC, and there’s not a lot of security in the work, so I try to be tactful about requests and concerns when I interact with a business that employees me with regular work. One of these places pays bargain basement rates and generally prioritizes every other class of workers above the musicians there. An important detail is that musicians work as part of a two-person collaboration with a teacher, so relationships are important. A number of months ago, I asked for a raise from this employer, outlining my reasons, offering the industry standard as evidence to why this isn’t just an arbitrary request, and was met with “we aren’t entertaining raises at this time.” Fine. It’s not that bad, and I still work with a teacher where respect is mutual. That teacher had to miss a few weeks of classes recently, and no one at this…

Sexual harassment training, religious accommodation, equal employment opportunities. These are legal terms that when proven to be violated are guaranteed million dollar lawsuits in favor of a complainant and ensures losses for a company. The laws to protect actual worker rights as opposed to those individual rights are worlds apart. There seems to be no piece of HR that deals with theft of wages, denial of sick leave, hazardous work conditions and comparing wage and salary compensations. It is specifically designed to prevent lawsuits and loss of capital. The grift is nearly perfect too because Human Resources sounds friendly, compassionate and reasonable. Try going in there for being worked overtime or not getting paid on time. Good luck with that. I'm a human God dammit! This is human resources!