Author: Olivia

I emailed an issue to someone who works in the same company in a different department. His away message said he is on PTO today. It was nothing urgent and could certainly wait until next week when he returns. I was shocked when he hit me up on teams with the information I needed. When I'm on PTO I do nothing for the company. He's working and expecting to be rewarded with promotions, raises, bonuses but the sad truth is he's a cog and when he's not a useful cog he'll be replaced with someone else.

We've had set shifts and days off for several years now. Recently newer employees were hired and the call in rate has risen. Management finally got fed up and decided that everyone needed to work rotating shifts, rotate their weekends off, and no set days off. Naturally most of us are furious, with a few people who “will do whatever management asks” as if this is the only job in the world. There's been a lot of discussion over the past few days, but one of the managers said to a coworker “this isn't a union”. Oh. Oh. So now a bunch of us are organizing a possible strike or walk out if our demands aren't being met.

When I received my first check, I noticed I’d be overpaid by roughly $100.00. I reported this to payroll who advised that they would submit a ticket and rectify the issue. I received my second check and it was only $57.00 and 100 hours short. My manager says something is definitely wrong, but the payroll manager insists that this was a result of the leave time being fixed. The math does NOT add up. I’m going in circles trying to fix this all the while, bill auto drafts are murdering my account. What more can I do here and what is my employer responsible for?

I'm just curious, because most working adults, myself included, have the perception you're just leeching off loved ones/friends or the government to live. Which is pretty hypocritical because you're then just screwing over the working man more who has to pay that bill. Obviously this will probably be a flame war in the comments or this post even get deleted, but I'm curious if there is an answer that doesn't involve “I live off the labor of someone else.” I know a lot of people here do work shitty jobs, and this is more a subreddit for highlighting their poor working conditions and desires for better pay and what not. That's all admirable and I agree. My question is aimed at the group that has already quit working and has no plan to go back.

Company is threatening to fire my team's supervisor if our surveys don't improve. Our team has agents in the top 10% company wide and half of us just won a service award for having top numbers in 2022. I feel like something else is going on. My supervisor has been out on FMLA leave due to surgery and this feels like retaliation for it. It's just really frustrating to do everything and get the raises and awards and still be facing layoffs.

I have a coworker who is probably in his mid to late 50s, maybe early 60s… Not entirely sure. Anyway, he always has little comments about me taking my 30 minute break. (Our job allows us 1 hr lunch and two 15 minute breaks, they don't care when or how we take them… We can even take all of them together) So he always says stuff about me taking all of my breaks like I am allowed to. Sometimes I only take a 30 minute lunch with my two 15 minute breaks, sometimes I take the whole hour. He always mention how he doesn't “take breaks” because he doesnt “need/want to”. Cool, bro. If you don't want to take your breaks then don't, but I do. The biggest thing is that he actually does take his breaks, but when he takes his breaks he doesn't punch them into his work…