Author: Olivia

Had applied to a dessert shop opening it's first ever US location from Canada. Honestly between the time I applied and got called for an interview, I forgot about it and his French Canadian accent was so thick I couldn't understand a damn word. Arrived 20 minutes late (my fault, GPS took the long way and had to stop for gas), and they were more than accommodating since they were waiting around for a call from corporate (it happened right when I walked through the door). His partner goes through the spiel explaining the menu and how customers order. I left feeling good but never got a call back! Honestly the location was a fail from the start. Was supposed to open fall 2019, got pushed to March 2020, then the pandemic pushed them to fall/winter 2020. They were only open about a year / year and a half before…

Should companies be able to rely on the generosity of its customers to pay employees a living wage instead of eliminating tipping and just paying a fair wage? I had an argument with my wife because I didn't tip a bud tender at a dispensary for a $6 product. Let me start off by saying I will happily tip if someone has given me good service. In my opinion, people don't deserve tips for doing the absolute bare minimum. Walking 3 feet to the left and grabbing a joint doesn't mean I should give you 20% of the product cost. Imagine this: You have 1 bud tender and 2 customers. 1 customer buys a $10 bong, the bud tender walks 3 steps to get it, then takes 30 seconds ringing it up Another customer buys a $1,0000 bong, the bud tender walks the same 3 steps to get it, then…

I'm in a company in Gurgaon. It has many different teams but the designation for each is the same. I moved out of my team to join payroll team. After sometime they changed the shift timing and chose a timing that's very odd. They have given me wfh and want me to work from 12pm to 5:30pm and then start working again from 8pm to 12am. But since I'm at home, it always stretches and becomes 12pm to 7pm then 8pm to 1am and they are not giving me extra money compared to others who do day shift. The main problem is it is really hard to find another job in this field in Gurgaon since it's so small. This shift has sapped every drop of energy out of me and everybody has noticed my health being deteriorated but when I talked to my manager he just says that he…

start tomorrow, but 12 hours seems just too much, i mean after standing for 12 hours, when am i supposed to workout, read a book, play videogames, cook something, or do anything else,… Plus amma probably need more than 8 hours of sleep after all that work I have no other choice, how do i cope with it ?

Looking for a little advice on how to handle this situation I find myself in, also, I'm on mobile so sorry for bad formatting, I hope it's a good read at least. I'm really stuck in a hard spot for me. So I work in a small cocktail bar chain in the UK, in a very small and run down town, it's not the type of upperclass place you think when you hear cocktails, I'm not claming to be the best at my job or even great, but I'm great with talking to people and “guest obsessed” like the company always instructed me to be and up until recently i really enjoyed it, everything was fine, the company has some issues like underfunding us, like leaving the bar itself broken and warped and wallpaper peeling from the walls, but we made do, my manager and coworkers are wonderful people and…

I'm just curious, what would happen to employers who suddenly found themselves having to pay double for employees? if they are a business that sells a product or service, would they increase their prices to compensate? wouldn't that just mean the price of everything goes up and we're just back where we started? of course I don't mean this would happen overnight, a change that drastic to the minimum wage would likely be rolled out over years, but still. we all know that CEOs are going to make their millions one way or another, by firing employees or only hiring part timers, or increasing costs of services, cutting more costs elsewhere (or outsourcing wherever possible). maybe I'm just pessimistic, but I could see a bunch of negative side-effects of this. I'm hoping someone can show me how I'm wrong and that the positives would outweigh my perceived downsides.

Very long story short… I received a job offer that required me to leave family, leave my home, leave the country… I took it. The salary was just high enough to convince me to make the move (120k usd). Afrer two weeks in the job, I was called to join a meeting. I entered the room, sat down with the other directors in the company and the CEO who hired me. Not knowing what the meeting was about. In this meeting, I was accused of overexaggerating multiple things on my resume and even accused of lying on my resume. I did not lie. Every time I explained in detail why they were wrong with their accusations, they'd bring something new up (which was also wrong). I mentioned that I would be open to providing hard proof of everything they had suspicion about. They ended up providing me with two options,…