Month: June 2024

i got my new schedule approved by my supervisor, she said that was a okay schedule for her back in January and it works out. We had no issue with it and she said everything worked out, i went from 36 hours to 31. She later wanted me to start doing more of what’s not required of me, i was a cashier at a retail store and she wanted me to run around grabbing food for my coworkers, working on my off days, i would politely decline. I was good at my job and got alot of compliments for my work in customer service and did my job. My manager later would call me a priss and have a bad attitude with me and be rude, ignore me, etc. Then my schedule started “becoming an issue,” i now did “everything wrong,” and wasn’t a team player. I noticed my job…

I have been depressed, pessimistic, cynical, and hypervigilant for the past few months. I had to talk to HR because I was using the restroom, I was switched to a new team after one of their teammates left for maternity leave, but we've been experiencing tension because there are areas where I'm still inexperienced or they're expecting me to charge only 30 hours for the 4 weeks I've been instructed to help on an project. Not to mention my accuring credit card, school loan, and medical debt. But I don't think that's even where my grief begins. I think it started when I was in my final year of college, before graduating into the pandemic, that my then boss, a hardcore narc, tried to diminish whatever enthusiasm or self-esteem I had, on the last day of my 4 month internship. After being unemployed for 19 months, getting fired at sweatshop…

I work for a very well-known corporation as a server/bartender. My shift usually starts at 4:00 pm. The time clock rounds my hours to 15-minute intervals. If I clock in at 4:01, I don't start getting paid until 4:15. If I clock in at 3:50 and start working immediately as expected, I don't get paid for those first 10 minutes. I know if I clock out at 10:40 it doesn't round to 10:45. It gets rounded down to 10:30. My general manager confirmed that over text. This means I lose up to 28 minutes in my wages every shift. I know this is wage theft. They did not notify me that they changed the time clocks. When I was first employed, I was paid from when I clocked in to when I clocked out. I wasn’t aware that it was rounding down my hours for a few months. I believe…

So I'm expecting this low paying of a job to be sitting behind a kroger and call the cops if they try to climb the roof and start stealing the copper wiring. Hiring guy starts talking about getting certified to carry, and I played dumb but, armed security make 25+ an hour here. I dont mind making a dumb wage for a dumb job, but if I wanted to be a cop, they pay better than you do. (I dont, fuck the police). They pay armed guards fucking 1066 an hour?! I just cant.

When you take a long view at it, job interviews are basically arguments for why you should afford to live. Subsisting off unemployment isn't sustainable. I'm relatively likable in the general sense but no one has universal popularity. So if the wrong people don't like you, you can't afford to live. This is a really fucked up system and I don't think our society made the right choice in using it.

Looking to vent and get some advice. TLDR; management told us they would use public humiliation against us, while one of them shouted “shame shame shame” at us. I repeated these words to him after finding him in violation of an important company policy, followed by ‘doesn’t feel so great does it?’. He told me to leave or he would call the police. I refused and stayed for my the remainder of my shift. I have now been suspended from any upcoming shifts. I work at a large music venues in a small state. I've worked several different positions there since early 2019. When we opened back up after COVID, the venue hired a new General Manager who turned out to be drunk most of the time. The owners hired a human resources manager for the first time since I had worked there, and I spoke with her several times…

I am part of this educational internship program where we work a long term, competitively paid internship. I was one of the people selected for an interview with company A, and they brought the group of candidates out for a tour. It was a nice tour and they paid for some beers afterwards at a local brewery. I was asking questions about company culture, and the question of start time came up. They said “the latest you can start is 8AM, but we'd prefer earlier. I start my work day answering emails and phone calls at 6:30 on my way to drop my kid off. ” So naturally I asked “do you consider your work day to have started at 6:30 then?” The response: “you know, I would consider myself more of a company man than most, I work till the work is done.” That, combined with other questions about…