Author: Olivia

So my workplace tried changing my roster from 6am to 6:30am start and end half hour later. The problem with this is I would be missing out on half an hour of penalty rate each day. I took the proposed roster change to my union and they helped me to dispute it. Unfortunately there was no opportunity to leave the roster as is but we found a resolution which involved working an extra hour on Sundays to make up for the lost penalty rates. This resolution means I don't lose any money (I actually end up about $2 per week better off). I added up how much this was worth to me over the course of 1 year and it would have been almost $1000! I'm not thrilled about having to do an extra hour on the Sundays if I'm honest but it's a lot better than losing that 1k…

We all got some tiny ass yearly raises today and I was talking to everyone seeing how much we all got and discovered that our key holder never got her raise from being promoted last year. They told her she’d be getting more but they only gave her the standard raise everyone else got. She’s been making the same as everyone else this entire time. We wouldn’t have found this out if we hadn’t talked about our paychecks. Remember that it’s illegal for a company to tell you not to talk about wages and that they’ll do absolutely everything in their power to screw you over.

i work at a fast food chain, and for a couple months now there’s been a leak in the back that just builds up and multiple employees have slipped on it at this point, i know a work order has been put in and they’re just not doing anything to fix it

Just started a new job powder coating I've only worked a couple hours and I like the crew but there's one thing that screams neon red flag. The boss during the interview told me that he doesn't like attitude from workers or overly aggressive crew mates, which I understand everyone wants to feel safe at work, but then he went on to say that he PREFERS to be short staffed because he thinks there's more work that gets done with less drama or some bs like that. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant he'd rather be short staffed than work with people who might be problematic but I dont think thats what I heard. As I was working with the crew everyone admitted to being short staffed but not knowing about the bosses preference. The boss also went ahead to say that…

I’m a student and this is my part time job at a local grocery store. I’ve been here for a month and a half. Never called in sick, always was on time and did my job. I texted him the day before at around 6PM, turns out he “doesn’t respond to messages” when he’s not at work, understandable. Key point about this situation: we’re critically understaffed, me and my boss are the only employees for our department. He can call someone in to replace one of us but hates when he has to replace me since I can just “be there” and because it costs him money (?). He started yelling at me in front of everyone else, saying that I don’t even have the decency to text him the day of my shift and that my sense of priority is messed up. Did I do something wrong or are…

Today was my first day as a leasing consultant and my managers are amazing. They gave me a company laptop and told me to leave it in the office at the end of the day. I said “so I don't need to check my work email at home or anything?” And my boss looked at me so seriously and said “absolutely not. Why would I ask you to do something like that? Work is Work. Home is home.” Fucking amazing