Author: Olivia

So turns out it’s about 17/h and lower. Don’t even have to make 40k before they can dick you on overtime. Sub embarrassed me a lil on this. I was saying it was much higher.

Full disclosure I can’t say specifics of who. I work for a large financial institute that most people probably drive in their home towns & whom most people probably owe money to through loans, bank accounts ect. And time again I hear the term “wage inflation problem” being used in the context of boosting profits in the larger companies they lend too. Im sure this is a large problem for companies but having a large finically institution finding ways to boost profits in every sector is going to drive the average worker to that beyond a wage slave, I even see it in the employees for the company (especially as you go higher through the ranks) actively talk about how they spend more time with company than their families and how they put aside their dreams in life to be a part of the giant entity that is this capitalist…

I've been a long time lurker and have connected with a few great posts in this forum. I would like to offer a humble submission, And if you words I wish I could address to my former self. It can get better, it takes time but it fucking can. Like many here I have struggled, And a great deal of that is my own fault. I have a master's degree (History and Philosophy because I fell in love with it). I was not able to make enough money as an adjunct teacher so I eventually gave that up. I have some health issues spring up on me that required a surgery I could not afford. I manage to save up enough to get the surgery about eighteen months after the latest safe date the doctor said I could. I'm ashamed to admit that I developed a terrible drug problem after…

This was my first job I have ever had. I got this part time job as a “courtesy clerk” where I would bag and take out people’s groceries. I got the job when I was in Highschool and 16. They would always hold me after hours and work in the position of grocery stocker which I had no training and was not getting paid for (the pay was higher for grocery stocker). I worked more in the stocker position than the clerk position. They did not pay me as grocery stock for the better part of a year where I was in a constant battle with management to get promoted to stocker. They would always tell me “it out of our hands” or “it up to corporate” whenever I would bring it up to them. I was finally promoted to stocker but they still would not pay me as one.…

I'm 17f and I used to work at an ice cream stand when i was 15. I have hearing aids in both ears and can sometimes struggle to hear a conversation if someone else is screaming and on the day this took place my only other coworker was almost entirely deaf and one of my hearing aids had died during the shift. Well one day I'm at work and I'm ringing up customers and this one lady comes up with a kid who looks around 6-7 years old and the kid is screaming about wanting ice cream. This kid wasn't just being noisy they were screaming at the too of his lungs and I could barely here the mother. I politely asked if she could have him stop screaming so that I could hear her order. Well a week later I see that I'm not on the schedule at all…

So my boss has scheduled a meeting for tomorrow, I've found out through a supervisor that it's something to do with me 'being slow'. Which is complete bullshit since I work the same pace as everyone else. I do my job right every day and no orders have ever been missed or not gone out due to us slaves. (This guy clearly has an issue with me, everyone sees how he speaks to me and for example the other day he was cracking jokes with a group of guys near his office, I walk past and his tone dropped as did his face and his laugh and he says Infront of these people 'i told you to make sure those orders were finished before you left yesterday' to which I replied 'they were. And if you checked your email you'd see why one was left behind. No apology for speaking…