Author: Olivia

I’ve had three interviews in the past week, all of which never made it past the first five minutes. These employers never put what hours are required, what they require from the employee, nothing. If you would have told me overnight availability is required, I would have never paid $10 to Uber there for the interview. If you would have told me the position I’m interviewing for was already filled, the only position they met my availability, I would have cancelled the interview. If these employers would have simply listed the qualifications and expectations of this position, all our time wouldn’t have been wasted. If the position I applied for was only full time, making less than I do now, I would have never applied. There’s no reason to be enigmatic on your job postings, tell me exactly what expectations you have, qualifications that are required, any requirements for this…

I've seen a lot of posts in this sub and other similar ones bashing the new Florida law that seems to be driving off immigrant workers. I know that DeSantis is normally everything this sub goes against, but I strongly believe that this law is a step in the right direction and should be adopted nationwide. Businesses do not hire illegal immigrants because Americans don't want the position. Businesses hire illegal immigrants because Americans don't want the position at the garbage wages being offered. Any system that doesn't do it's best to weed out illegal employees is actively working to suppress the wages of everyone else. The average person might not want to pick apples in the sun at 5 bucks an hour, but I bet they'd consider it for 50 an hour. Any business or industry that cannot survive paying a living, actually competitive wage doesn't deserve to survive.…

I work in company selling shoes. Today I got about 20x 30% saving cards for purchases as on of my “benefits”. The cards are expiring in 1 month and I am definitely not gonna buy 20 shoes and I won't be getting any more cards until next year. So I guess I am gonna go to some store and give it to the shoppers. At least someone will have better day

I work as a technician for all sorts of technology. Recently I got bitched at about getting overtime when a vehicle and a couple of items worth over $14K collectively were urgent (as per our consignor). They required me to stay later on Friday to set the items up on our store website and eBay since we are closed on the weekends. Waiting patiently for the owners to come in and give their two sense on the matter about me getting collectively an hours worth of overtime last pay period. I only make $14 after all, to think I don't get paid more boggles my mind after doing this for a couple years. I want to know other people's take on this and if anyone else has any messed up experiences with companies bitching about people who do their job, meanwhile they ignored others who didn't in the past.

Context – I'm British immigrant living in the US. I finally got my first job last year after going through the long immigration process. During my phone interview for the job I made it clear that my only two requests before I accept the job are that I cannot work Wednesdays and that I will be taking time off to fly home and visit my family for the first time since 2021 (immigration means that you can't leave the country while you wait for your green card, which can take years. Mine took 378 days) and that my mother would be traveling to the US to visit so I would need time off then. They agreed to my terms and I stupidly didn't get it in writing. I finally got my green card and I'm now allowed to travel. So I put in my request months in advance for me…

I work in a restaurant and was taking taking trash out yesterday they had dumped the bathroom trash in our big bins so when I was pulling out the bag from the Big Ben I stabbed myself with a needle that was in the bathroom trash I started freaking out told my boss to operation operating manager and she told me hey let's go smoke a cigarette and talk about this I'm freaking out right she immediately says you know if you make an incident report we have to drug test you so if you want to go down that route we can. Wtf do you say to that?!

Hey guys so this is the context. On May 15, they had to pay us the hours worked + commissions, after so much insisting, they paid us on May 16, the hours only. Today is May 19, and they still hasn’t paid us the commission check, everyday they say “today” they’ll pay us but they haven’t and now they say MAYBE they’ll pay on May 24. A co-worker got mad because she needed the money and spoke up on the groupchat asking why they delay it so much and have to lie a lot (because everyday there is a new excuse but the truth is they don’t have money, they’re late with the rent too) and she got fired. What should I do? I spoke up too but no solution. Another co-worker threatened to sue (because we suspect they won’t pay us, it happened like 3 years ago) and the…

Examples include: A) Incredibly rude comments and remarks about my work based on their subjective and ignorant views B) Nepotism where family members were hired to lead various sales, customer service and marketing departments they knew very little about C) Constant chaos and fear since there were so many conflicts of interests and unknowns I quickly quit. I told them they needed consulting and to change the way they treat others.