Author: Olivia

A day or two ago I was working nightshift housekeeping in the hospital like I normally do and I noticed 2 rooms were empty and looking dirty but they weren't on the board. Not on hold, not marked dirty in the system. Weird. I made a mental note to come back and look at them but other rooms came up keeping me busy. 5am rolls around and the split second its 5 they put up one of the rooms I'd noticed earlier. I get to it and it's completely untouched from earlier when I saw it. I check the whiteboard with pt information, lo and behold the last round done on this room was at 10:45am. Depending on when the patient was actually discharged after the last round this room has possibly been sitting dirty for 14 or more hours. I finish the room and my pager goes off again…

Soon enough, robot customers, too.

Started in 1993. Boston Chicken testing home delivery. I was paid $5 per hour plus, 1 dollar a delivery, in 1993. Average tip was $3. Next? Pizza Hut. Amazing benefits until PepsiCo sold Pizza Hut to Tricon, then (current) YUM! Brands. My life was destroyed over and over again. car after Car, I could never make enough. I spent 2012 to 2019 homeless, working full-time , cashing in my car, for Existence, Day, to Day after Day . It never paid, I paid my Owner (massa) day after day, cashing in my car. my most valuable possession. Today. 2022, I have been renting a room with no kitchen, no laundry, no garbage disposal, shared bathroom, and no storage for $20/ per day. Every day, 365. Living in my car, was almost better. At least you get to be alone.

I'm a student worker (no work-study authorization personally) at a private university. The past couple of weeks I've been more fed up by the fact I've never been given a raise yet seem to be expected to take on the duties of a “senior worker” in my office. I've also become aware of potential wage theft situations for other workers and there currently isn't a system in place for student workers to report anything. HR is only for faculty and staff and all student reporting avenues are for Title IX violations which I (thankfully) haven't experienced. All student workers also make minimum wage, no exceptions I'm aware of. My main concern is that I know organizing a union can take years and most students are only employees between 2-5 years. Am I better off just petitioning the university or should I try and raise interest in a union?

This happened just a few hours ago. I worked for my now ex employer once before but ended up leaving due to a better job offer (3 days off and about 15k more.) I made sure to leave on good terms because I had nothing against the guy he just could not offer me the same wage as a bigger company. A few weeks ago he rings me telling me he has expanded his business and needs a reliable manager to run his new location in 4 weeks time and he thought of me. Because I like the guy I tell him I will come across if he matches my pay which he agrees to do. I give my 2 weeks at my job and decide to take 2 weeks holiday because I have some money saved up and I want to spend more time with my kid. A couple…

The reason for this Russia-Ukraine War looks very filmsy. I am sorry I am no global expert. But is this the world leaders colluding together to create a fake crisis? Push the economy down , and create a fake recession. Then get us all back in line for minimum wage jobs. The timing is super odd. World was coming out of the pandemic, people were realizing their potential, only to have another crisis thrown at them. Am I being paranoid?

I’ve been googling but most of the stuff I see is based on sexual harassment. Curious if anyone knows if management and ownership joking about firing you counts as harassment after I’ve told them to stop?

I work in the resources industry in Australia, which over the last 13 months has seen an explosion in the amount of jobs on offer. Due to our strict border requirements, there is a limited pool of people to hire from. Because of supply and demand, some roles have seen a wage increase up to 80% My team consists of myself, and 3 field assistants. They report to me, and I report to Senior management. They all informed me today, on our days off. That they have all decided to accept other offers, which pay significantly more money. The two “junior” fieldies have accepted roles paying $45 an hour(They are currently on $29), whereas my senior fieldie has held off on accepting anything until she comes back from her holiday at the end of March. She has put her notice in and wont be returning for her next swing. I…