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Got A Raise But Feels More Like Inflation Raise Not The Work I Be Putting In

So I was making 25hr and it was my 6 month review because that's how long I been with the company only six months and I got a 5 dollar raise for my review. My 1 year review is in December and I'm thinking of asking for way more 45hr to ve exact because I feel that's what I'm worth and my hard work shows the 5 dollar raise I got felt like an inflation raise should I let my boss know this about my raise and how I feel about it what you guys think???? I'm in California as an I.T technician

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Dow tumbles on red-hot US job market | CNN Business

So …jobs are bad for the economy? Fuck all this shit.

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My job changed my position and cut my pay by $20k.

At the end of 2021 I was planning on moving out of state after living in Los Angeles/Southern California for 20 years since I was 8. I was in the process of being laid off from my previous role, and was thinking about the next steps. As I was finalizing my plans to move, I was contacted by one of my old coworkers at a huge multi-media conglomerate that one of our print vendors I had worked with pre-pandemic was looking for an account manager. This is a huge print vendor, known nationwide and has international offices, and I guarantee you that as long as you're not a hermit, you've seen stuff we've done in your mail, at the store, at Trade Shows, Comic Con, Las Vegas, you name it. I told them a salary that would keep me in California and allow me to keep up with the cost…

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PTO request denied for the first time ever, I need advice.

I have a good, solid, full time job. It’s got it’s ups and downs, but it’s generally pretty laid back. Recently, I got an opportunity to travel internationally for a family event. This is a once in a lifetime kind of trip. I would be gone for 6 working days in total. The dates are during a semi-busy time of year, nothing the team can’t handle, but our year end inventory falls on one of those dates that I’ll be gone. My boss is requesting I make it back for that date (leaving me only 3 days to spend in another country). I told them this is not a possibility and that I need the full 6 days. I’m not sure where to go from here. This trip is extremely important to me. I’m one of their top employees. I work hard, and I never ask for this much time…

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Work gives my shifts to new “cheaper” employees

Yeah, you read the title. It isn't illegal to hire new people. It isn't illegal to pay them less. It is also not illegal to give them my shifts. I have been with the company for a very long time and I have “grandfather'ed” a high hourly pay. The new employees make two thirds what I make (the company posts their starting salary on Indeed). It is all legal and nothing I can do.

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14 an hour to do a company’s mail, receiving invoices, and a scapegoat.

I work for walmart as a receiving associate for the last year, but I've worked for the company for 9 years. I get the same pay as a cart pusher or stocker despite me being legally liable on the count of me using walmart's money for deliveries, checking in guns, and lottery tickets. Managers around me do not know how to do my job, which is an entry level job that requires a drug test and a background check but the level above me (a team lead) requires none of those things and they get paid 20 an hour. There is never a right time for a break or a lunch due to the lack of training or concern of the managers here(they have left a vendor waiting for 2 hours because they arrived before I clocked in). I'm tempted to leave due to the lack of parallel responsibility to…

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Employers should be required to notify prospective and current employees of DOL violations from the previous five years.

If health scores have to be posted, why not labor law violations? It would certainly allow employees to further understand what they’re getting into. And it puts the onus on the employer to explain how they’ve improved or fixed their issues.

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Kal Tire: Unethical, Underhanded, & Unhinged

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Boss feels I am lacking, because I leave at 4pm flat.

Hi, I've been through irritating conversation with my boss today at work and I want to share. First of all, the company I'm working for doesn't pay the overtime. I'm actually fine with that, because we're really rarely asked to stay longer and when we do, we always have an option to deny if we have some plans. Also, if we actually do stay longer, we count by how much and leave earlier by the same time another day, so it all evens out. They don't make problems about leaving early in those cases. Second of all, I'm commuting to work with two other coworkers. We all leave in a town around 30km from the company so it's cheaper to share the car and save the gas money. Result of this is, if I leave even 15 minutes later, I have to go for a train, for which I have…

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Why in the world hasn’t the 40 hour work week changed in over 80 years.

According to the gradual changes prior to 1940 we should be working way less than 40 hours by now. Why hasn’t it changed?