Author: Olivia

I'm a plumber (non-union) and I've been looking into the union I would join and I don't like what I see. It's a nation wide union and the president has a net worth of ~20 million even though his salary is only 400k/year (trading favors?). Are today's unions too weak and corrupt to be useful? Is this just the case with trade unions? Note: I don't want this to come off as anti-union in any way. I think that collective bargaining is essential for workers rights, and we definitely need to democratize the economy.

Title pretty much says it all, my job picks favorites and the good employee's get shit on while the terrible ones get babied and I'm thinking of going to HR but should I?

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i’m not sure if this is the place to post this but i’m really at my wits end and have no idea what to do. so i (22F) got hurt on the job even though i gave my job notice back in October outlining my previous surgery. i got hurt and notified my employer last month but i found that my employer never filed a claim with the insurance company, the state, or gave me a packet that outlines my workers rights (even though it’s listed on the posters posted in the triage room). i went ahead and filed as much as i can, but the most important paperwork needs to be filed by my supervisor and they are slowing their feet. also i’ve gone to 3 different doctors to see what’s going on with my body and they’ve all told me they don’t do workers comp and I noticed…

Can we use this community to come together and slander the evil companies that mistreat their workers [with evidence provided] to show the old, out of touch, money hungry, pieces of shit at the top of each of work place that we hold some leverage in discussion regarding wage? This is where our power exists and I'm at a breaking point. I cannot put up with this shit anymore, we have to do something

A lot of the people in restaurants have to at least smoke weed to cope with all the shit that happens there. I worked at a hibachi grill for about 5 months. About 80% of the staff did drugs. From smoking weed(legal in my state) to oxy, Adderall, Xanax, cocaine. At one point all of the hibachi chefs were on pills(idk what kind. This was before I got there) people would go out back and smoke weed whenever they needed to. Servers popping pills in the break room. Management knew but they couldn’t really do anything about it cause they would have to fire 80% of their staff and get more people that would probably end up doing the same thing. No shame to anyone who does drugs. I understand it. It helps with you cope with everything.

Does anyone have a graphic (preferably 1938-2022) of what minimum wage is and what it should be if it were indexed to inflation? I’d prefer a published source and in a table, listed year-by-year and not in a line chart.

I love/hate this subreddit. Love the freedom to express all the shitty things about work life, hate how often the shitty things happen. I’m a “high ranking” (In quotes because I hate hierarchy) employee at my organization and have the ability to transform the experience for people in my department. We’re remote first and I generally don’t care when people are working or not working. Obviously we have deliverables to meet but otherwise, whatever. My question is, what else would you want to see as an employee to genuinely see people first over profit?

Hello, I am coming up on my performance review and wanted to get some feedback. I’ve been told by my former boss (boss#5) and new boss (boss #6) tell me I have a pretty negative performance review. It will require me to be on a performance improvement plan. The reason my review is so bad is I’ve had 6 bosses over the last year, and I’ve only been with the company a year. Heck the company is barely 1.5 years old. During one period I reported directly to the VP. To say he didn’t like me is an understatement. He actually wanted boss #5 to terminate me when she started but she wanted to assess and have a chance to work with me first. There have been instances where the VP called me out in meetings, dismissed me outright, and even insulted me in front of our vendors and other…