Author: Olivia

There were many posts and comments talking about May 1st strikes and protests across the US and other countries, then the interview scandal came over, took our full attention, and all the discussion stopped in a single night. I mean, workers are still on time to pull a successful strike now that with the rising costs of life, food, gas, are quickly rising.

I was a new hire, just finished my 2 week training. It was a higher end restaurant that I applied to bartend at but ended up serving for. Everyone was really cool the first few days, and I was promised tips woldd be amazing “thousand $$ tables frequently” kind of language. Well, once I started seeing how many customers and tips were actually rolling in, I did the math and realized I could get paid better for my time elsewhere. Almost the same time I realized this, one of the longer-term coworkers decided to get trashed near end of shift and generally be a jackass. Had some low-level sexual harassment. Nobody seemed to care. There were recently a bunch of previous employees who left that I found out about the first day I started working. Totally see why now. After trying to talk about it and being met with an…

If your company is showing losses or denying raises to match market inflation and yet your upper level management or C positions are taking PAY RAISES, time to give no notice and leave en mass. Be done IMMEDIATELY. Nothing says fuck you to the workers keeping the place afloat more and I have zero respect for anyone who remains at such an abusive company in a workers market. If you don’t respect yourselves and cut this bullshit at its source, then it’s hard for anyone else to feel bad for you or respect you either. Dig deep for that self worth and gtfo, I promise you’ll be much happier you did. That is all!

Last year the company I work for rolled out a new incentive program for employees. This year they are cutting our monthly expense budget by 2/3. The incentive program is points driven. Accomplish certain goals and you get some points. Make certain mistakes and you lose points. The problem is the amount of possible negative events and the point assignment FAR exceeds the positive possibilities. There was initially a certain task employees could perform for bonus points. When everyone started doing it, they said it was, “being given out too freely” and no longer allowed us to give out the bonus points. The program is designed to not only make it near impossible to meet the maximum bonus but even if a few reach it here and there, it is statistically impossible for everyone (even a majority) to meet it. The company knows they will never come close to paying…

Should be illegal for employers to offer unpaid break, I am still on your site waisting my time for nothing. The fact that we still go by laws made 70 years ago it’s mental.