I work for a place that I feel doesn't treat their employees well. Several instances I've heard of potential labor board violations. We are all in a work group chat. I'm thinking of quitting and dropping my pay in there, so that others can ask for what is fair. From what I've heard, many are being paid a fair amount less than I am as a newbie, despite working there years. Could they do anything about that legally?
Ok I know I’m not the victim here and I’ve made some dumb decisions. There is a man who’s 40 in my office and I’m 27. When I started working there, he started hitting on me pretty aggressively – I kinda reciprocated, not aggressively, but I flirted back. I definitely felt a spark between us – he’s very good-looking and kind of intelligent. He made it clear he had a partner and 2 kids – but he still hit on me a lot, spoke to me heaps, etc. We’ve never slept together, we’ve never even spent time alone. I should have shut it down but I didn’t – I guess I liked the attention from a very good-looking man. At some point a switch went off in my head. I started feeling bad for his partner – he never spoke about her in a respectful way, or his kids (two…
For those of you who may not know, my position is known as a Mental Health Tech. I do 15 minute rounds, vitals on patients, and assist them with whatever I can so that their stay at the facility is comfortable. On top of the tasks previously mentioned I also go on transports, patient pick-ups from the main hospital, and of course responding to patient codes whenever hostility’s occur. I work the night shift, so when all the patients are asleep and when tasks are done, I walk around at times. This is usually between rounds, so I don’t miss tasks. I usually tell the charge nurses and my partner on the floor when I’m going as a courtesy. I also walk around to check in on other units, assist them, and other techs if need be. If not that I do it to stay awake, since its a shift…
I’m a hard worker, as in I do what needs to be get done but I’m not on my hands and knees scrubbing in-between floor tiles and kissing up to corporate. This job is not my career. It’s how I’m paying my rent as a student. I “act my wage.” I’ve been at this job for almost a year now. For the first few months, I got along fine with everyone and there were no issues. Up until recently, one of my friends who happens to be an assistant manager informed me that there were a couple of complaints about me at the manager meeting. I was confused, but he said it was about a work ethic and attitude issue. I was genuinely lost, because the two people he told me about: I only worked with one for about 2-3 shifts, and the other one I thought I was friends…
A little rant because I've been annoyed at this for some time now. One of the first things someone will ask you is what you do for a living. If you say any job that's not a six figure job, they’ll be like “oh, that's a cool side hustle/gig”. Like why not say the word job?? And it's even more awkward when that “gig” is your primary job. A job is a job no matter how much you make. The adult work life is actually cringe. I'm currently in school and my part-time jobs are reselling and art commissions. The confusion on people’s faces and voice when I tell them this is baffling. It was even the same thing when I worked at a vet-clinic. Like I'm sorry I'm not some CEO making a million a week. There's just no respect for people anymore and that's been hitting me hard…
Yesterday I quit my corporate position at a start up coworking and networking space in Manhattan. After a lengthy work trip earlier this week, I was submitting my receipts for reimbursement and my CEO accused me of fraud for asking for things to be reimbursed for the trip (mind you we were told to submit these receipts) I wasn’t fired but I was asked to leave the space for the day – leaving me completely humiliated. Later that night my partner told me this standing abuse could no longer continue. I’ve been miserable for months from these strange and random outbursts from my CEO but I couldn’t really see it all come together until last night. I’m young but I feel like I screwed over my chances of any career in New York.
When I interviewed for my current job 1 year ago I was told there was a company wide “Flex Friday” meaning you were off every other friday. This was a deal breaker for me. This is a massive US company by the way. Out of the blue last month the president announced via a HR portal announcement they were ceasing this as post Covid business requires everyone needs to work more. How would you feel about this? It was a major draw for me and people are really upset. I’m not crazy about the job in other ways anyway but mainly I just think it’s a shitty thing to do. Our work was getting done just fine and we all do occasional weekend time when required.
I work in banquets and I liked this hotel I used to work for. There were some annoying servers acting like they own the hotel because they have been there forever but I was whatever. Then a new manager came in. Not that bad of a guy as a person. He brought some of his friends from other places he worked at and now they act like bosses. Get more hours, even though it is supposed to be seniority based. My hours were decreased but it's non-union and I cannot say much. Even sales people brought it up. He has his friend employees working 10+ hours overtime but not me or others. I feel disappointed and I started disliking the place. Can't tell anything to that banquet manager and the friends he brought acting as bosses are even more annoying.
For the record, I work as a front desk agent at a massage clinic and what do I do when it happens?
Told bosses about taking 3 consecutive weeks off 3 months in advanced(I am at my maxed limit and need to take it) Corporate BS has been causing problems all year and ruining our programs ans they are blaming us for it and crap is hitting the fan. Been making us work extra hours with low salary the past year with no give. Now my boss tells me 3 weeks off is excessive and shows poor leadership. I got coverage and walked through important thing to do in my absence. I'm not going to put up with BS that's severely effecting my mental and now physical health. Take your PTO