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My wife left me, I’ve never made more than $55,000 in a year.

I literally just got fired this week because I’ve missed too many days this year. Most had excuses but let’s be real, when a company wants to fire you they’ll justify anything. So I text my buddy that has wanted to hire me at the company he manages. It’s niche sales, (bathroom remodeling, doors and windows). Since it’s niche basically all the salespeople make at least $120,000/year. If you had a really, really good year you could come away with $250,000/year. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve done a good amount of sales, and usually within a month you realize that the owner’s best friend’s nephew gets all the good leads and everyone else has to stand outside in the cold, chain-smoking cigarettes, waiting for anyone to pull up. It’s not like that. Plus if it was it’s my buddy this time so I get the fucking leads, Derek! Anyway this…

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Am I crazy for initiating leaving my graduate assistantship?

This is my first time posting here. Kind of confused and annoyed at my current situation. Background: I am a graduate student and have wanted to take a step into graduate assistantship to help cover tuition. I go to a state school and the tuition is about 1500 per class. The GA position covers 9 credits a semester and provides an annual stipend of 9k (they specifically don't advertise the hourly rate). This job requires 20 hours a week commitment on paper. I applied for a democratic engagement GA position at my school because I don't mind talking to kids about voting and politics. I got the job at the beginning of this semester (Fall 2023) and at first, the woman who is my direct supervisor was kind of eccentric. She talked a lot and seemed like a decent person. However, as I began working more and more I found…

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Is this a lot or not?

Am I crazy or did they expect a lot? I used to work in a sandwich shop, primarily the closing shift. I still feel like the closing shift had a LOT of tasks, so I wanted to hear if people agree. They had to: Cut vegetables for the next day shift (all vegetables that can go on a sandwich) Make 2 kinds of pasta salad fry bacon Mop both the cafè area and the staff area/kitchen (once with soap water and once with dry mop) wipe down every table, couch/chair, counter, cabinet, machine and fridge with soap Run dishwasher through cleaning cycle Wash every steel counter and sink While also serving customers and make sandwiches, warm meals, coffees, clean up after the customers in the cafè and prepare and refill ingredients if they empty out Pack leftover fresh food for pickup Take all the trash from the whole day out…

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vent: got back from vacation today

aaand of course my new boss is scheduling me against my availability when i have already told her i cannot work saturdays, and that this was agreed upon when i was hired. when i told her, again, i cannot work a saturday, she told me to take it up with whoever hired me. naturally, that guy is also the world’s biggest asshole. conveniently enough, the department favorite still gets saturday AND sunday off, though, even though nobody else in the entire department does. and the cherry on top? i start looking at other jobs in my field and find a listing for my exact job, with a range $3-$11 more than what i make now. i’m so tired. so, so tired.

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Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit

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I miss being NEET

i got my first full time job in july (for context, i work 9-5 in an office). it started as an internship, where i worked monday, wednesday, and friday, then in october i became a full time employee. i’ve only had part time jobs before that, where i worked a few days a week. before july 2023, i hardly worked and barely went outside since december 2020. now i’m starting to work full time, i realised how much i missed being NEET. i miss having the freedom do what i want when i want to do it. don’t get me wrong, i enjoy what i do, but i’m afraid that this new job will leave me too exhausted and drained to do anything that i enjoy doing. pretty much every day for the last three weeks, i’ve came home from work and almost immediately fell asleep. i don’t want my…

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Bathroom requirements?

I work at a tennis club that shares bathrooms with the rec center (literally right next to each other). Recently the rec center took away the key due to vandalism (bullshit). The rec center is closed on Sunday’s so I have no bathroom on sundays. I work a 9 hour shift. What are the laws surrounding this because it doesn’t seem legal. Only other bathrooms in the area are owned by private businesses. This is in California TLDR: Employer doesn’t provide a bathroom on my 9 hour shift.

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Job asked me to volunteer

I was just informed that my boss wants workers to volunteer for a event . Why would I work for free ? Is this technically illegal ? Or is this a loophole ? Absolutely absurd .

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Supervisor Changed my timecard

So I started a new job a couple of weeks ago and i accidentally went over by twelve minutes into overtime. The company didn’t want anyone to go in to overtime so I was mindful of this and made sure I did my best I didn’t go over 80 hours. It happened I expected to either get some flak for it or get a pink slip cause at-will employment. I didn’t expect to see that my supervisor or some other power that be change a lunch from 30 minutes to an hour to bring me in under 80 hours and avoid overtime. The amount they would’ve owed is $5.77 in overtime pay. While I do t care about the money, I do care about the principle and not setting a precedent they can do this. While they can alter the timecard for perfectly legal reasons, it seems to me that…

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I recently got a job, a week later I’m ready to quit

This is my first post and I’m actually super nervous venting to the internet because I don’t ever vent online so please be kind lol So about a week ago almost, I got hired after 5 months of not working and I already hate it but I needed money so I was desperate. If I’m being honest, I really hate working. I hate it because it feels like I never have time to really focus on things I care about or spending time with my family(I know I had those 5 months but I wish it was longer) I really just don’t want to spend the rest of my life making my life all about work . It honestly feels like I could be doing something so much better and doing something that won’t make me have 2 anxiety attacks in 1 week. I honestly don’t want to make my…