Author: Olivia

Minimum wage, blah.

I work at a small business and recently I’ve been being scheduled more and more “on call” shifts. Our on call policy is that we are expected to basically “sit at home or do something at home until we call you in if we do”. I asked my boss that since I’m slotting that time out for work I should be paid for that time, and was told no. My on call shifts are getting to the point they’re wanting me to be on call for upwards of six days a week which is keeping me from having a second job. (In terms of hours for this month I have 80 hours, 50~ of them are on call) Thoughts?

I work at a small business and recently I’ve been being scheduled more and more “on call” shifts. Our on call policy is that we are expected to basically “sit at home or do something at home until we call you in if we do”. I asked my boss that since I’m slotting that time out for work I should be paid for that time, and was told no. My on call shifts are getting to the point they’re wanting me to be on call for upwards of six days a week which is keeping me from having a second job. (In terms of hours for this month I have 80 hours, 50~ of them are on call) Thoughts?

I’m just so frustrated. I (23 F) am in college taking the prerequisites for medical school. I have a bachelors degree in criminal Justice as well. I can’t seem to find a job that will even pay me $15 an hour. Which is still not a great wage with inflation but I digress. I got hired in March as a medical assistant. I was excited because it counted as clinical hours for medical school. The pay was $14 an hour. Due to my classes my availability was Friday-Sunday. Their training was complete crap. They were unorganized and would send me to multiple locations for “training” and each location would tell me that the previous location had taught me incorrectly. As you guys can guess I did not master everything in the 22 shifts I was scheduled. They were training me to do two jobs at once. Medical assistant and the…

Hey all. I’m really not sure if this is the right sub to post this in, but I’m at a loss. Im going to be vague in case I do anything but here’s the gist of what happened. I work at a company and after I started I was promoted to buyer for a department, which essentially means you run the department. The store manager was out when I was promoted, so I stupidly took the job thinking I would get a raise when he comes back. When he does come back, I ask for a raise. He says he will see what he can do. Several weeks go by with nothing. When I bring it up again, he tells me to ask a man that is essentially the CEO who was visiting from another state. When I ask, I’m told “ I’m not working hard enough.” So I quit…