So, my coworker was fired because he had allowed for us to take home spoilage items from the bins (Spoilage refers to soon to be expired, expired or torn packaging.). Now they are discussing on how much he has to pay back because he has taken home items himself and admitted to allowing other coworkers to take from the bins when scanned out. How can you make someone pay for the stuff that's already bad and was going to be thrown away in the first place?
So I've been with a company around 3 years and a few new people have joined recently in the same job title and role as me. These new employees basically have no knowledge of how anything works and it could take 6 months or a year before they become competent. I've heard that they are making 10k more than me even though I'm training and mentoring them while also trying to get my own work done. I'm really not happy about it and my morale is way down so I'm looking for a bit of advice on how I should handle this with my manager. Does anyone know if this is normal in a competitive job market such as the one I am in. What do people think? Should I make a fuss with my manager next time I'm talking to them or just wait until the next compensation review…
I left my job almost a month ago because the owner was a total pshyo, and the manager also was nuts. I was thinking of just walking away multiple times because I couldn't handle the manager – he was shitting on me all the time, at the end we had a lot of work and a lot of overtime, I just worked very fast and then he didn't seem to shit on me but I knew I wouldn't be able to work like that all the time. Of course it was my fault showing how fast I can work but I don't care about it anymore. Anyways the manager was nothing compared to the owner. He's literally a pshyopath, I get sick whenever I think about him now. I worked at die-cutting machine and one time about 2 months in when I just started to understand how to work he…
Unions used to have vibrant, militant leftist factions that brought the vigor, courage, and zeal to fight like hell for the best working conditions and wages; it were these radical militants utilizing direct action that helped secure the economic prosperity of the post-WW2 Boomer era. However, the red scare and anti-communist witch hunts of the 50's drove out most members of these factions from unions, which resulted in many unions, run by moderates, to become weak and complacent, prone to fighting with each other over jurisdictions and neglecting the workers who voted for them. We saw this in the John Deere strike, we see this in the unionized grocery stores with the shit pay and constant struggling of grocery workers throughout the US, we see it in the decline of unions in general and the cowardice/resistance one usually faces in the labor movement when they suggest labor actions that aren't…
Just adding this here, because I think I’ll find some people have a similar story. I used to work at a “production facility” which packaged and shipped COVID test kits. I won’t name the company due to sub rules, but just know it’s one of the big ones. I was supposed to start my shift at 3pm today. 3pm-11:30pm. I got a call from the shift manager saying that they were shutting down the production facility and laying everyone off at 1:45pm. This was today(Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022). Luckily for me I was able to find another job, but that isn’t that goddamn point. They let us go AN HOUR before our shift was supposed to start. I was already driving to work when I got the call. Per the rules of my “employment contract”, I was supposed to give them a full week’s notice before I quit. They gave…
My boss (m) has been verbally abusing a coworker (m) consistently in the time I’ve worked for company 2.5 yrs. It has been escalating to an extreme lately. Yesterday he hit the coworker. Who should I call? This is in California. The coworker has come to work with injuries on the face in the past but I cannot confirm this was also from the boss although I suspect it might be.
I work in a small local owned restaurant owned by a retired parole officer his daily habits include staying at the restaurant's bar and drinking until about 7pm the days he gets too far down the bottle he decides that is a good day to yell and nit pick every single food order that comes out of the kitchen. His tantrums include throwing food against the wall then commanding that someone in an already busy kitchen clean it up, yelling at the supervisor about the items on his menu. The point where he was dumb enough to try to guilt trip me after a miscommunication where i didn't have the ability to clock in and still worked, then when payday came i had to tell them to get me my check. Argument followed. We settled to give me a draw until my check got figured out and he says “your…
Man has this made me real cynical about the value of education in employment, I basically fell hook line and sinker growing up for the common wisdom of NEEDING a college degree to do anything worthwhile in life, and I also come from a well-educated family of teachers and engineers further exacerbating the self inflicted pressure. But due to a variety of circumstances I'm nowhere close to where I guess I felt entitled to be at after all the time I spent nearly killing myself from mental health deterioration for 5 years total at universities. But it was all going to pay off when I finished right? I like to think I also put myself through it for the old school enlightenment purposes of university, but a larger part of it was definitely hoping it would result in being able to land a decent paying job(s) to fund a quiet,…