Author: Olivia

Im sorry if my english is not perfect, it's my second language.I needed to rant so bad!! I(26f) work a well known luxury hotel chain as a chef, we work upwards of 60- 70 hours a week not including commuting from and to work, and I cant help but start to resent this industry for taking advantage of us. We don't even get paid fairly for making millions for the hotel, the stuff we deal with from the guest and my older coworker justifies it by saying, oh we had it harder back then. LIKE, does that make it okay that we're getting paid to live paycheck to paycheck, or alternatively live in a tiny room with housemates and save up for 30 years to maybe put down a downpayment for a tiny apartment. Idk man, this whole thing seems sus to me.

when i was a kid i would look at “office” people and think wow they dont have to go do physical labor and they have clean looking clothes and nice cars. it must be really awesome working in an office. fast forward i have been working in various office settings for the last 10 years.. and they are all shit. except of course upper management. how did office work seem so great back then.. even the “hard” jobs like factory work dont even pay anything any more. i make more sitting on my ass doing data entry now then i would if i went and busted my ass in a hot warehouse doing heavy lifting.. and neither pay worth a fuck anyway.

So, I started at a job about two months ago where the agreement on paper was 20 an hour. In the interview they did say that I would get off at 4 but lied, now having to work untill 5-5:30 most every day. Im currently working near 9-10 hours every day depending on how long my lunches are. Weekly averages are near 45-46 a week, but my pay stubs show no evidence of any overtime hours separated from the regular hours. My boss has been pressuring me to commit to a “salary” wage based upon my hourly rate of 20, then adjusting based on how many hours I've been working on average, and according to his math that would equate to 22 an hour for a 40 hour work week. Keep in mind my lunches and hours worked vary greatly depending on how busy I am (I work at an…

I'm not entirely sure if im in the right subreddit for this but I feel very strongly I have a case for employee misclassification and I was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experiences in how they got the process started and what all the process entails, if i need a lawyer, how long did it take, etc. Any and all help is greatly appreciated.

A friend of mine who's had a decent job for the last 5 years that I've known him got into a car accident recently. He totaled his 12 year old car, wasn't paying for comprehensive insurance and doesn't have money to replace it outright. He can't find a decent car for cheap and doesn't want to have a car payment. He “needs” to own a car outright because he doesn't want to worry about making payments if everything goes wrong and he has to sleep in his car. He told me about a 4-5 month stretch in his life when he broke up with his ex, lost his job, was couch surfing, and sleeping in his car all while worrying about getting his car repossessed.

Is my boss having a managing style of “encouraging” conflict between workers, in order to have better and faster work, enough of a red flag to quit the job?

I moved to a different department though an “agile careers” initiative. Theres no training. Nada. While the skills etc is broadly the same, there is a lot of specialist knowledge that I dont have, so I end up not being given projects to work on. I offered to pay for my own further training/education, if the company could give me a small time allowance for study during the week. Flat no. I am so done.