Month: August 2024

Unbelievable wealth hoarding!!!!

when i was originally hired, i really liked my store owner. paid me fairly, gave me good hours, gave me the days off i needed for college, gives us an extra $30 on each paycheck to help pay our phone bills, we have similar interests in music and audio engineering and we would talk after hours all the time. i’ve been there for 3 years and i’ve gotten 2 raises that, combined, gave me $2 on top of what i was originally making. he announced that the store was not performing as well as last year and that our hours would be cut as a result. i was thinking maybe 3-5 hours cut between all of us. my hours were cut from 35 a week to 30 to 27 all the way down to 20. only me and 2 of my other coworkers hours have been cut, meanwhile the other…

News: The population of Japanese nationals fell by 861,000 in 2023 from a year earlier to 121,561,801, marking the 15th consecutive year of decline and the largest drop since the survey began in 1968, government data showed Wednesday. The trend underscores the seriousness of the declining birthrate and highlights the urgent need for the government to implement measures to revitalize regional areas. Solution: New Law that all parents of children under 12 and pregnant women can work a maximum of 40 hours a week, get four weeks vacation, can't be paid less, and if fired must be replaced by another parent Chance of Implementation: zero Businesses: will work less workers harder

Been with my job for 7 months, have not taken any PTO. Only time I have taken off for anything is for surgery &follow ups when I broke my leg. I told them back in April I will be traveling international for almost 2 weeks (9 work days). They said it was fine but now I am just finding out we have all these meetings those weeks with the CEO and others, and my job is supposed to set up everything, (I’m a front desk receptionist ) of course with others help. I do feel guilty but in all fairness I did let them know about this for a while. Is there a chance of me being fired once retuning?

Just want to rant. I applied for a job listed as “mid-level” with a pretty high salary for the industry. Quick background of myself, I’ve been working for 3 years as a software implementation consultant for a major semiconductor manufacturing company. I did the whole process… resume with a high ATS score, messaging the hiring coordinator with the subject of something we had in common, etc. This was over a month ago, and by now I just assumed they didn’t select me to move on, no big deal. Until today I got a message back from the hiring director, saying thank you for applying but we already filled the position. Sure, whatever. I look at the company’s LinkedIn, the person they hired is fresh out of college, so much much less qualified than I am. I want to assume they didn’t really care about experience and got them for a…