Author: Olivia

She’s a middle aged lady with a kid. Working 66 hours a week isn’t something she should be proud of. She should be spending time with her kid not spending the majority of her time at work. Now maybe she needs to work those hours because she need the overtime pay to provide to her kid. But it’s the fact that she BRAGs about the time she puts in the annoys me.

German guy here, so please let excuse this stupid question, but I’d like to have a better understanding. As a waitress/waiter in a better restaurant, restaurant where you pay 50$+ for a steak plus side dishes (plus tax – I’ll never get used to that), what would be a normal hourly wage? Would it still be the minimum wage with an expectation of higher tips or would it be a higher wage?

If your work expectation is to do X, but most people can't, even experienced professionals, does that mean your above average? For example, my department hired everyone around the same time. An expectation of all of us was that we achieve a specific certification (not referenced for the sake of anonymity) within 6-12mo of being hired. Of my coworkers, I am the only one who achieved the cert. One coworker failed the exam, the others are “still studying”. Granted, it has a 70% pass rate. So not easy, but not super difficult. I've put it to my boss, and friends, that because I am the only one who has passed my exam, I'm technically above average. My boss thinks I'm “technically right”, but it was part of my job description, so it doesn't really do much for me as far as performance reviews.

What the heck is the Biden administration thinking with giving the cards away if the Supreme Court rejects the forgiveness (with the proposed debt ceiling agreement)? Can he negotiate an end to the pause and forgiveness in return? Is this really going back to go “normal”? Thoughts? Any hope here? Am I missing something?

I feel so bad, I had no idea what to do. I just left a note for the manager saying I quit and signed my name. They said my first day I'd get a name tag, watch training videos, and shadow someone. But instead I was just thrown on the floor and greet people. Then when it was my lunch break they didn't tell me how to clock out so I asked someone who was in the break room and she didn't know either because you need a specific employee code that they give you. I never got one. She said to just write a note so instead I left a note saying I quit. All of this just for $10 an hour. I've worked previous jobs that actually trained me and paid more. I'm not sure if anyone will even see my note but I left my walkie on…