Author: Olivia
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Rude customer insults fast food worker
I have worked as a chef un the US for about eight years. It's a shit job for shit pay, and I'm actively changing careers because my hard work has earned me nothing but body aches and a fucked circadian rhythm. However, I still need to pay the bill, so this has led me to job listing sites. More and more frequently, I've seen a large number of listings for $30-$40 an hour, which, believe me, screams bullshit in this industry. When you actually look into the listing, they are, without fail, always for minimum wage positions with assumed $15-$20 an hour gratuity added prematurely. I can't begin to describe how badly this boils my piss. It should absolutely be illegal to list a position for anything less than the actual pay rate. I just want to make a god damn living. Please.
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More fucking propaganda
I'm a Benefits Administrator and have worked w employee benefits for years. I really enjoy having great benefits and explaining how those benefits work to our employees. I feel like I'm helping people w a complicated and messy system. I firmly believe in universal Healthcare. It's a basic human right, it's cheaper than our current system, and everyone gets the help they need. I can go work elsewhere. It just makes sense. But, who knows if that will EVER happen in the US. I decided to get my Certification in Employee Benefit Systems (CEBS) to become more knowledgeable. I came across this info in my study materials and I just wanted to scream. I'm so fucking tired of the brainwashing and propaganda about how great our capitalist society is. We still have 26,000 people dying annually because of no Healthcare. I saw a video of a hospital discharge a stroke…
To preface this, I live in Australia. Minimum here is $22, but there's an increased pay rate for casual that makes it $25. We also have this thing called 'super', which is like our version of a 401k. Employers are all legally required to pay it, on top of our hourly rates. Even if we are casual. The caffe restaurant I started working at a couple years ago didn't respect these laws. All staff were casual, and many staff were getting payed under the minimum rate for casual. Additionally, nobody was getting super, somehow. Which would be a kind of tax fraud come reporting day. Despite crap pay and no super, most of us were just glad to have a job, and the staff tended to get along as he did manage to foster an alright energy (most of the time). A few cooks left and suddenly we were…
When even the billionaires start arguing against work, you know we've gone way too fucking far. from a new interview: “You are not a slacker if you cut yourself some slack,” a wistful Gates told the forestry and engineering graduates of Northern Arizona University (NAU) over the weekend in a commencement speech, which he later published to his personal blog, Gates Notes. “When I was your age, I didn't believe in vacations. I didn't believe in weekends. I pushed everyone around me to work very long hours.” “In the early days of Microsoft, my office overlooked the parking lot — and I would keep track of who was leaving early and staying late.” Intense! But as Gates admitted shortly thereafter, his eyes-on-the-parking-lot level of intensity may not have been entirely healthy — not for him, and definitely not for the people around him. “But as I got older — and…
I'm at a loss but what to do. As the title states, it's 50 cent raises from here on out. I've hit all of my corporate mandated benchmarks, and was told I've gotten all the raises I'm going to get, all for 24 an hour. I realize there are others who are in worse situations than me so I don't want to come off uncaring. Why is it so hard for everyone?! I have two master's degrees over a decade of experience and I was just told that this is it for me in my field. I have three kids, live my mom's basement and I'm just completely out of hope.
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