Author: Olivia

I was talking to one of the janitors in the building that I often work at and he told me he’s only paid $14 an hour (I’m paid more to do less as a student worker), and that he’s working this weekend and isn’t paid OT. I’d love to help him with this because it sounds wrong, but don’t know anything, does anyone have some resources?

A post on this was just removed by mods as I was replying to it, so I decided to post about it myself. If this gets removed as well, oh well… but I think it's applicable to this sub because it speaks to shitty practices in corporate America and the stress they cause, and how the way these corporations are run brings about these situations (bonus targets). Anyhow, someone posted about being passed over for a job because they are a white male. I have no idea if that really happened, no idea if happened as described, no idea if they were told one thing but the real reason is another. But, I do know this happens all the time. It is illegal, at least according to the training I had to to do to become a supervisor at a bank. My bosses have a target to hire a certain…

I work as a bookkeeper for a small property management company. Basically, I keep accurate records of everything the business does. From taxes, to new tenants and property owners, to daily financial records. Two weeks ago, my boss took on 8 new properties. It was agreed that she would enter in the property information since she knew a lot about the properties. I would then enter in the tenant information as well as all of the funds we received from the transfer of the old property management company. I came into work the following Thursday, and she hadn't done any of the work she said she would do and was gone on vacation. We had to have everything entered before the start of the month, and she would be gone until then. So, I had to enter all of the information in which I did accurately. It turns out, these…

The company I work for brings in around 15k in profit every day. There's only 10 of us who work here and we're all on minimum wage. There's barely any overheads for the business, so that 15k daily income is around 9-10k of pure profit after expenses, wages and taxes. Imagine earning almost 10k a day… And only paying your staff £70 each. The divide is so ridiculous, it's hilarious. He's just bought himself a new sports car, costing in the region of around 150k. And he's been flaunting pictures of it around the office like a mad man. If he thinks I'm putting in any work for the rest of the day, and even anything next week, he must be smoking crack. No time for people like him. The only reason I'm staying is becasue I'm learning about the industry, and I'm currently building a business doing something similar.

My boss was away for the weekend and so the evening before he came back, my co worker cleaned the cafe extra hard so that he hopefully wouldn’t complain of it being dirty. Anyway he comes back and decides the cafe isn’t clean enough and so he throws away both of our travel mugs cause he was annoyed. We use the mugs cause it keeps our coffee warm for longer as when it gets busy we don’t really have time to drink our coffees. I wasn’t even working that day and he still decided to throw away my mug. Also these are mugs we bought with our own money and we have never been told we can’t use them.

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Y'all have helped me see that I'm NOT trapped in my current job and that I DO deserve better pay for all the hard work I do. I'm starting to not stay late/come in early. I'm no longer going the extra mile. And, most importantly, I'm getting my resume updated and will be applying for jobs that are actually careers. I know some of my opinions on here are a bit controversial; but, this fellowship helped me realize just how much I'm being screwed.