Author: Olivia

I was hired at a gas station as a cashier for $10/hr to work one morning, one evening, and two overnight shifts per week. Apparently did a good enough job to get promoted to assistant manager (with more responsibilities and a whole $1/hr raise) about a month after starting. A coworker, who works the other 5 overnight shifts, got covid and had to take two weeks off. Was told we'd have to close overnight if I didn't pick up his shifts because they're having trouble finding new people, so I worked 14 overnight shifts in a row, missing two holidays with my family and putting my own health at risk from exhaustion. I pointed out some payroll discrepancies in my overtime pay to HR, which were never really resolved, following those two weeks. The time for the raise I was promised is coming up, and they've cut my hours to…

Mod bots taunting people about “Naming and Blaming,” despite there being 11,238 other ways to get sued by employers for defamation through discussion on here that are 100% allowed per the rules. People with little to no experience dealing with the day-to-day abuse of the service sector singing the praises of xyz new service job with better pay & benefits without reading the fine print. Posters basically advocating that folks in the service field don't deserve housing that isn't shared with strangers or family. In the past two weeks, I have literally seen sentences written in genuine context here that almost word-for-word echo employer Facebook group sentiments. Am I the only one that's seen this? I'm not trying to pick a fight or do anything in particular about this, I just want to hear other folks' observations on changes in the community in recent months. What the hell is going…

Any math gurus out here, I need help. Please pm me

Hi all. Thanks for hearing me out. I’m 21 and I feel stuck. I’ve been working as a janitor for the last year at $14/hr while trying to pay off an 11k surgery. Its been done, but its been horrible and soul sucking. It’s not the worst, and people have it worse than me, but it still sucks. It feels like I keep pulling myself in a million different directions. I want to go back to school. At least I think. But i know I’ll have to work at the same time, and I already have MDD and intense passive suicidal ideation. Basically admitting I can be very fragile. And i feel guilt with that knowing how intense some jobs can be and how bad we need them (like surgeons.) But I dont wanna be in debt. I had a pell grant, but I never ended up getting my associates…