Author: Olivia

My spouse and a few colleagues were not getting paid shift different last year and when they brought it up HR changed the handbook the nexr to fit what she was saying and now is refusing their backpay. You'd think they treat their staff better especially since they are the lowest paying hospital is the area. Anything we can do about it?

I found out because I applied for a position that I am very well qualified for and HR emailed me to advise me that I have to be in the office for the role. For the sake of clarification: at least 1/3 of this team is composed of remote employees. So there's precedence, and it's not like it requires an office presence. I reached out to my manager, and she hadn't heard of this. She reached out to her director, and she hadn't heard of it. Apparently this policy was just dropped silently and the only reason I know is because my manager was invested in helping me get into this role. It's messed up, there's a TON of remote employees at our company and there's been increasing pushes to get people back into the office despite a huge success with transitioning to remote work back during the pandemic. I…

I feel like people should get ssi for mental health problems. Why do people act like mental health problems aren't debilitating? Working with severe mental health issues is impossible.

From the restaurant workers, Ramp Agents, Flight Attendants, etc. It's appalling that jobs pay $15 or less an hour for people to arrive 30+ minutes early to take a bus to the airport, go through security, and all while be not paid until they start “working” on the clock. The one I work at takes a bare min of 30 minutes to arrive early and as late as 50 minutes to leave at night. Ramp agents push your plane to taxi, guide your plane in, balance the weight of the plane, service everything, all while being paid less than $15 an hour. Airports where a meal at the airport costs at the bare minimum $15. They handle equipment worth 1000s of times more than their salaries and are subject to ridiculous fines. E.g., If they don't correctly check a seal on a truck, they are subject to a personal fine…