I’ve been working since I was 19 & I’m 28 now. The thought of going back to work makes me want to fling myself out of a window. No, but seriously. When I get on Indeed to apply, I start dissociating. Blank eyes, blank brain. What do I do?
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I had a very vivid dream that I checked my company payroll portal and noticed a tip fee that was being taken out of my paycheck every day. The default amount was $2.90/day and it went to the custodial staff. That way the company only had to pay the minimum wage for tipped workers. The company didn’t tell us this was coming out of our paycheck but they did make sure we met and got to know the custodian that was responsible for cleaning our area. That way if we did notice the tip charge, we would feel guilty that this person wouldn’t get paid as much if we changed our contribution.
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How to ask for a raise (first post here)
Hi everyone! Long time lurker, love all the posts, and I hope I am posting in the right place. Bit of a background: I work in healthcare in Canada. Worked my way up from receptionist to overnight nurse in 10 years. Currently in med school (so that I can no longer have a boss telling me what to do… ha) and still work 27-32 hrs a week at an urgent care clinic. I have never had to ask for a raise. It always came automatically with each performance review roughly every 3-6 months. However, this field has notoriously high burnout and is desperately hiring. My question is this: my clinic just posted a job for the same position as mine…offering 3$ more than they pay me. I have experience, well-liked by my patients and superiors, and an university degree. They lowered their standard to accept high school students who have…
They’ve realized that they have risen prices and nothing has really changed, because we still have to buy groceries to survive. They will continue to do this until the cow can’t give any milk. That day, when the average citizen struggles to buy food, they’ll make whatever bullshit subscription service that will save you a little bit in exchange of a steadily income, and you’ll love it.
Well, the fun fact is that they trained me for 2 weeks only and now I have to assist him all the time…..he has 15y of experience in other areas and works from home (they don't allow me to work from home) and gets 20% more money than me. IS THIS FAIR? I'm gonna telly my boss that I want to wfh and more money or bye bye, do you think he will accept?
My girlfriend just got denied a job because she told them she needed those 3 days off for a camping trip and I don’t want the same thing to happen to me. What do I tell them that I could back up with something verifiable?
I work for a company that maintains servers for one of the major cloud service providers at their Data Centers. Let’s call them company Em. Company Em requires all employees and contractors (like me) to wear safety toed shoes inside their Data Centers at all times. I have a letter from a doctor stating that this exacerbates my knee injury, and causes me unnecessary pain. I normally work in the US, and this letter is good enough for the company Em management there. I’m in France for a month training new technicians. I sent this letter to the local Company Em management thinking it would be the same, especially in a country that has famously strong worker protections. I was wrong. Company Em management cancelled my access and had security escort me offsite in the middle of a repair task for one of their very expensive AI nodes. So I…
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Boomers, Gen Z and the Big Fat Reset
I joined this subreddit a few months ago and rarely have my interests aligned with a community so succinctly. I am the dirty, pinko commie in my family who thinks that “the pursuit of happiness” includes the relief of necessities like food, medicine, and shelter. How can one pursue happiness when one's only goal is survival? They are fundamentally mutually exclusive. So it is no surprise to me that the great majority of posts here are confessions of wage slaves, exposition of our capitalist overlords, and just the general shittiness of scratching and surviving in late stage Capitalism. But…what if I told you things are actually going to start getting better? What if I told you that all of us damned Millennials not reproducing at the expected rate is about to really come home to roost? Let me tell you a little story about The Black Death. In the mid…
This fast food restaurant, known for its donuts, also: – requires hours of unpaid online training, meant to be completed as “homework” – threatens termination for discussing wages Thankfully, I left very quickly as I had been interviewing and got accepted to a job that paid much higher soon after starting here. Most of my coworkers were college & high school students, though. I'm tired of being exploited for being young. Rent in this area is $1k for a 1 bedroom, yet jobs barely want to pay you over $10/hr or give you full time. Love being in the rural south!