Author: Olivia

I’ve been a chef for 13 years, and I was offered a private chef job for an ambassador yesterday. Felt pretty proud that I’ve finally had these kind of offers thrown at me from people recommending me, until we got to what to compensation… They felt that I should do it for $16 an hour. With a background of cooking in 3 different countries in 5 different cities, they felt that was enough. I told them I can’t afford to work for that little and to find someone else. This is exactly why I am leaving this industry. There is no money in cooking food for people anymore. 13 years of training and experience in some well known restaurants for excellent chefs, and this is the pay I’ve had to work for for all of it. No more.

So this was a long time ago, back in 2005. But reading some of the posts here I decided to share my story. I graduated in 2004 with an engineering degree and after job hunting for the better part of a year I was approached about a job at a pipe mill where they make steel pipe. For the first interview which was really weird in hindsight but I did not know anything back then they flew me and a bunch of other people to Toronto and did interviews that day at the hotel airport. Second stage they flew like 20 of us to their plant in a smaller more remote community for on-site interviews and a tour of the facility. The recruiter from the first interview told me straight out if you get a second interview you will get a job offer so don't go if you are not…

I mentioned to my dad that my niece is going to babysit my daughter tomorrow so I can go to a local food project planning event. I said that I pay $15 / hour, because when I was a teenager my older siblings had me babysitting for slave wages. (At one point, 6 kids under 7, 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, for $150 + room and board) So he drops this nugget on me. Excuse me, that's actually minimum wage in this state. I outright laughed and asked him if he thought that me paying one person on a rare occasion minimum wage to care for my child would really… REALLY? THAT WOULD BREAK THE ECONOMY. YES. YOU HAVE SOLVED THE ECONOMIC CRISIS. I could tell he was getting really uncomfortable so I ended the conversation pretty quickly.

Place: Small cannabis store Scenario: Manager lets several things fall to the wayside over the period of months, leading to animosity amongst staff. Nothing unusual in a small close knit store. There were a lot of tight friendships and the in-fighting was awkward. The staff begged for a meeting so we could all air our grievances, regroup, and come back stronger than ever. We were promised the meeting. ​ And then: The Manager's manager got fired. Two weeks later, my manager got fired. The staff still beg for the meeting as it's feeling more and more crucial we hash things out. Today, HR showed up and fired 5 of the 7 staff members. “Culture reset” is what they called it. Staff member number 6 quit when she found out this all happened, and staff member 7 is there, at work with a bunch of strangers she hasn't worked with before,…

This isn’t your usual extreme grievance. But I had just came out of the ER the day before. It wasn’t an extreme thing that needed a week off of work, but I am now on meds and I was recommended to rest for 2 days because its the smart thing to do. However I had already missed 2 days and I barely make rent in 2-3wks. Today I worked an 8 hour shift. Short-staffed the entire shift. There is only me and one manager running the entire store ( cash register, both sides of makeline, packline / aka mobile or bagging, dishes and prep table. ) while people are flooding in due to the rain and just normal lunch rush as we’re connected to a truck stop. 3/4ths through, The manager asks if I can stay an hour later, till 19:00. I say Yes. Noone else ever makes it in.…

Update from here. So I tried keeping my clockout receipts from the last 2 nights I worked but they ended up being the last 2 nights I worked at all. My manager gave me the side eye when I put it in my pocket instead of in the trash. The next night I called in sick. The next time I saw him after that, I went to talk to him about the schedule and my manager told me I was sick too often, and to stop coming in because I was fired. I hadn't gotten a chance to go in to the manager's office yet, reset my password because I lost it, login to the computer, and print out my timesheets to compare to those receipts which I didn't lose and this process isn't suspicious or intentionally difficult so that people won't check their timesheets or salary. Now, since I…

I know it's off topic, but this needs as many eyes as it can get. Credit: https://www.reddit.com/r/apexlegends/comments/t0n2av/comment/hyazag9/ Шановні українці! У соцмережах я чув, що поширюються фейкові новини (скоріше за все, підтримувані Росією тролі), що польський кордон закритий. Це брехня. Якщо ви шукаєте притулку – йдіть до польського кордону. Ми готові до вашого приїзду. На кордоні готові пункти прийому, де ви можете знайти притулок, їжу, медичну та правову допомогу. Польський уряд запустив спеціальний сайт, щоб допомогти вам: ua.gov.pl Будь ласка, поділіться цією інформацією, якщо ви знаєте когось, хто зараз шукає допомоги. РЕДАКТИРОВАТИ: ВАМ НЕ ПОТРІБНА ВІЗА ДЛЯ ПРОЙДЖЕННЯ ПОЛЬСЬКИМ КОРДОНОМ. ВСЕ, що ВАМ ПОТРІБНО, – це ПАСПОРТ. ВІЗИ ПРИСПИНЕНО! ВОНИ ВАМ НЕ ПОТРІБНИ НА ЧАС!!!!!! EDIT2: як доказ того, що вам більше не потрібна віза: • ⁠українською https://www.gov.pl/web/udsc/ukraina—ua • ⁠англійською https://www.gov.pl/web/udsc/ukraina-en Вибачте, якщо це дурниця, я використовував Google Translate Copyable English version so it can be spread further: Dear Ukrainians! I heard on social…

So, I was working at a place doing equipment maintenance, installation, and removal for a customer site (semiconductor industry) for six years. When I was offered the job, I was told limited/no travel requirements, yearly bonuses, and yearly pay increases based on performance review. That was in 2016. They hired me for ~$55k/yr, which was enough for me to get by. I've asked for raises here and there and been told repeatedly that they only happen during the annual performance reviews. Never got anything great. In the last year and some change, they increased our workload, took all of the competent people off of my team besides myself and one other, and left us with three brand new hires. For nearly 40 pieces of equipment. Then they decided that, since the other guy is married with a kid, I'd be solely responsible for any customers requiring travel. Nearly missed Thanksgiving,…

I signed on to be a teacher for an after school program. They hired someone who replaced me in most of my classes but gave me another class. Now hired another teacher to replace me in that class. Now they have me doing backroom prep everyday. More hours and same pay, but not what I signed on to do. I usually don’t talk about my gender with cis people and let people make their assumptions. I /do/ look very trans but can be taken for cis of my assigned gender. I got cornered into multiple “pronoun conversations” and after telling them “don’t worry about it” several times I decided it was in good faith. But now I’m thinking I was put in the back after parent complaints or something. I can’t think of any other reason. I’m really frustrated, but it’s excellent pay for the area so leaving would be…

Watch a 3 hour film = “Oh my god, a 3 hour film? That's ridiculously long, how do you manage to sit through that?” Five hour car journey = “Wow, that's a long journey, it must have been quite tiring” Work an eight hour working day = “Ha! 8 hours at work! Is that all? That's nothing more than the bare minimum, you lazy person”