Author: Olivia

Hi all, i work for a company in which we need to travel by car from city to city. The hotel is 1 hour away from worksites and 1 hour back. Yet the company says it doesn’t count as time towards hourly. They want a strict 8 hour work schedule plus the 2 hour commutes. So 10 hour days but only getting paid 8… HELP (California)

The things I do for a Temp Job. Evidently I ate something that didn't agree with me. Maybe it's the hot pockets I eat for dinner. Maybe I'm intolerant to something. Maybe I'm just seriously overweight. I don't know, I can't afford to see a doctor. I usually have a bowel movement just after getting to my desk. Basically, I arrive, drop off my stuff, go to the bathroom, come back, get to work. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. So I get a phone call when I get to my desk, and I answer it. It goes longer than expected. My colon is not having it. I rush the end of the phone call. I go out to the hall. The bathrooms are right there but it's too far. I feel something running down my leg. MFW I take off my clothes in the bathroom. I've made…

To me it seems like having a Big Mac cost 14 dollars or whatever would actually be a good thing. All of these mega-corporations come to town and undercut the prices of basically all of the small businesses, eventually resulting in small businesses shutting down. Around where I live, there are dozens of small towns with all but deserted main streets, while the strip mall outside town with the same 20 big corporate chains (McDonalds, Taco Bell, Walmart, Target, etc) seem to do just fine, employing most of the town at as low a wage as they can get away with (shareholders need those profits and low operating expenses!). It seems like if the large multi-billion dollar corporations were forced to pay their employees a proper wage, perhaps one proportionate to their profits, it would only help small businesses as it would make shopping at these mega-corporations less appealing (why…

op: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/sne6vv/coverage_was_2_hrs_late_today_and_manager_would/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf manager apologized, says it won’t happen again, and has offered me my $17 in cash to just forget about the whole thing. i am torn. accepting cash gets me the same amount of money, preserves relationship w my manager by not getting her in trouble / her higher ups involved, and hopefully keeps it from happening again (doubt she wants to keep paying me out of pocket forever) but it feels…slimy? gross? overall i think i just need to get over it and meet her in the middle on this one but curious to hear what others think.

Here me out. How’s it fair that this store makes 1.5 million in a week yet they spend under 2% on that on payroll. Payroll is literally in the 25k area. This is why we need a mandatory percentage of the company to go toward payroll.

Hi all, first and foremost I finally submitted my notice of resignation—something I had been considering doing for awhile now. I was originally going to quit without any notice, but I decided I wanted to be professional and give them a reasonable amount of time to find a new employee (it’s a small business). I emailed my notice to the email address I had for my employer. It has been several days now and I have not received a response by email nor I have been texted by them. Do I bother texting and asking if they received my email? Or am I legally covered? Worst case scenario, they ask me to give them more time because they did not “see” my email, I would stand my ground and quit without notice. I suppose the question I’m asking is, should I text them and check that they received the email?…

Forgive me in advance for my ignorance. What would replace the current system of large apartment buildings and rental properties? What would people do if they didn't want to own yet? Would it be government run? Would they still require some form of rent? Would basic housing just be free and paid by taxes? Or would rental investments still exist but just be better regulated and have profit caps to keep rental prices down? Anyone more educated and insightful than me on this topic? Thanks!