Author: Olivia

This is just a little rant about my awfully low paycheck this month. We have a different currency, so it's gonna be higher number, but in reality it's smaller (1€= 23 of my currency). So, my base is 35,000 and 29,000 is what I normally gets after taxes. That's my base. This month I have 50 hours overtime from on-call shifts (getting 1/3 of my normal hour rate while on-call). I went on work trip to two countries (over 4K kilometres with car. Each trip I drove 16 hours in total) One of the trip wasn't even planned. I just went to work and was told I am goin on trip. I was gone 5 days (2 and 3) And my pay? I was expecting 38K and today I have received only 31,000. That's about 75$ for extra 50 hours of work and 5 days of driving…. And this month…

I just started working for this company that hired me to be their bar manager. They are trying to be a different type of restaurant and bar then what we have in the area. My issues aren’t just with how they are handling tipping, but this is where I will start. So for instance “tipping” isn’t encouraged but “allowed”. We have one of the paragraphs at the bottom of our menu that states “we pay a living wage and blah blah blah this is why everything is expensive.” My bartenders and bar backs were asking about the tips because they regularly see 2 big ass beer steins full of money, yet are being told “tips are split”. The cash tips are all taken by my bosses to be split up and the credit card tips too. My thing is the TAXES for credit card tips and how can the be…

Graduated in 2013 and never really got around to going to post secondary. I Worked odd jobs at min wage instead. At the time i was unsure what i wanted and diddnt want to sign for debt when i diddnt know. But as time went it became very clear bery quickly how much of a racket post secondary was already and how bad its gotten since. All of my friends. Every one. Has debt, hundreds of dollars eating at their account every month. But were all working the same jobs. Were all stuck at minimum wage. There degree got them exactly as far as i did. But im debt free. The actual freedom that comes with a stationary bank account is so nice. I have no commitments. My money is my money, i pay my chunk of the rent and the rest of my meager pay covers the bread and…

I'll start. I was told I need a personality adjustment because I wouldn't let a man take his dog somewhere dogs are traditionally not allowed.

I was shocked. He’s a boomer with adult add that loves to work 60-80 hours a week AND it’s his emotional coping mechanism. All growing up he would just say, “go to work!” And that’s all we did with him was work. He got a 4 year masters degree with 7 kids and a full time job, paid his way as a night janitor at a k12. Idk man. If he’s admitting it times are pretty scary.

Disclaimer: I could be wrong on a lot of things but these are my thoughts on why America is like this. This is in no way particular order of the most important factors. People still cling to the American Dream Basically, in the early to middle 1900s, anyone that wanted a minimum wage job could just go in there and ask for it, and you'd get it. It didn't matter what your education was, your background, if you wanted to work, you could work. Heck, you could get a factory job even if you were illiterate and make enough for yourself. Then, minimum wage sustained a family of 5 in a house and could take vacations. College was affordable, housing prices were reasonable, stuff like that. That is the American dream. You can be anyone from anywhere, and if you put in hard and honest work, you could make your…