Author: Olivia

I have 4 days of Vacay, and 5 of Sick Days. Would rather not use Vacay for an interview. What's ethical in this situation? Would you use a sick day, and if so, how would you go about wording the excuse? Open to input. Maybe I should just use a vacay half-day.

I'm looking at job postings and it (kinda) blows my mind that they are offering food service, some nurses, front desk agents, security officers, activity aides, warehouse workers, pet sitters, literally everything around me all the same pay for “only” $10-$13 an hour. I cannot believe they are paying hospice and other end of life workers so little(slight /s). There is no difference in what job you take around here so we're all fighting for the same stuff. I say only because it's insane it forces all of us into the same boat unless you have an insurance license, some type of high end sales, or certified medical anything, which is also cost prohibitive where I live. I kept looking at a cosmetology license and the most reasonable one is going to cost 12k without interest loans. Nevermind rising costs of everything. It has gotten to the point where eating…

If we dont like work is the solution to start a tiny business? That way we dont have to work for anyone else, and arent exploiting anyone as we have no employees.

I’m fairly new in the French workplace and I’m on r/AntiTaff, the French counterpart of antiwork. I just learned from a post there how French employers are not supposed to ask the reason behind taking a sick day. Idk if it is illegal but at the very least, it’s seen as transgression of an employee’s right to his personal life and medical secrecy. So, when taking a sick day, you just call in sick. No need to indicate the illness or it’s gravity. Idk, I just find it so different from my having to invent all sorts of diseases.

So, its been about 1.5 month I've been doing internship in a company with other 5 interns and we ended up being good friends. Only 2 interns will be hired by the company as employees and HR said we are not competitive amongst eachother as we are cool with eachother. What do you guys think?

So I work a minimum wage zero hour part time job in the uk. My main job is a musician. This means I request alot of odd days off but usually months in advance to not cause issue. I messaged asking for 2 days off in a month and a half and they said it wasn't possible because 3 or more people booked those days off I'm just curios if employers have the right to deny this stuff with such long notice and the fact that its work related as well. Also the fact that there is no guarantee they'll even put me on that day I just have to leave it open incase. Does anyone in the uk know anything I could do except quitting. This is a pretty nice workplace tbh so I don't wanna do that but ye carrear comes first