Author: Olivia

Mostly a vent. I am currently on disability for mental issues, and they don’t give me much at all to live, so I figured I would try to work an under the table job to try to make a little extra, to survive, and keep my insurance so I could stay in therapy. I got lucky because an old acquaintance/friend of mine, has a family partaking in running a business, and I Had worked for them before. When I started things seemed to be going well. I had laid out how much I can work because of my disability and number of appointments, and everyone seemed understanding, first two weeks flew by. Week three my friend says she’ll be going on vacation to Florida with her step brother, and is leaving her sister, who was supposed to be “supervisor” in charge to work with us. Making 4 of us left…

Graduated law school last year. Got a job as a law clerk after I took the bar exam in August with a part time professor I had at his firm doing a mix of criminal and civil and family cases. Started off great, he was very supportive and friendly and complimented me a lot and said I was doing great. Even said he wanted to train me to take over the firm in 10 years. Said that after I pass the bar I'll get the associate attorney job. I find out I passed the bar in mid November, and I get business cards with associate attorney on them, and boss tells me he's got an offer letter coming my way. December comes and still no letter, ask him about it, says he will get to it after this big criminal trial he's doing. All this time I'm not hearing anything…

Anyone work for/used to work for a certain family-owned California-based organic produce home delivery service? I have dirt about their practices. Like, the VP of sales was a felon who has been arrested for selling meth in both 2020 and 2022. Ongoing major staff abuse and safety violations. Multiple several assaults. Operating without permits or insurance. Lying about where the products come from. Endless lawsuits. At least one death. And that is just the tip of the iceberg. I’m absolutely dying to share my story with former employees.

Not sure if allowed..sorry if not. But I was wondering what would minimum wage be had it increased with inflation as everything else did? I hope that makes sense. I'm asking cause I am due a raise next month and I want to just make sure I get a fair raise. I have learned quiet a bit about workers rights because of this sub and I thank you for the info.

My girlfriend recently started working remotely for a large residential solar service provider. She was signed to an agreement of $16.50/hr + X%commission b/c we live in California and the relative higher cost of living (employees in other states receive $15/hr + X% commission). Today she received a call from 2 supervisors (her sup & a higher up) telling her she had to take a $1.50/hr pay cut(~2k per year) in order “to level the playing field” among sales advisors & “incentive top performers.” However the company is keeping all employees in other states @ $15/hr and did not increase the X% commission. This seems completely discriminatory and unfair to me, but I am wondering if someone can shed some light on the legality of the situation? Only employees in California are being made to take this pay cut which was put in place to offset some of the differences…

I work at a gym/community center (one that has a catchy Village People song) and we received a job application from one of our members. This woman is a grade-A Karen who runs on abusive behavior and intimidation. She has threatened staff, insulted and belittled us, and has attempted to get multiple of my coworkers fired. We can't (read: aren't allowed to) do anything about her because it hasn't become physical or gotten to the point that we would need to call the cops. Apparently, that's not enough for her. She wants to work with us now. Several of my coworkers and I spoke to our boss about this woman. We clearly explained that under no circumstances should she be hired. We work with sensitive information, including peoples' names, addresses, birthdays, phone numbers and emails, and financial information. This woman should never have access to that based on her behavior.…

I work for a major autoglass company, and I have only been a technician for a little over half a year. I enjoy the work of what I do, and the pay is good, benefits are semi lacking but better than other jobs I have had. I am working hard so my wife can get her Vetrenary Doctorate, so I am very much needing the money. Recently, management has been pushing more work on me than I can handle. I feel as if I can not do the work safely and meet the amount of work put on me. I brought this issue up with my manager, who up until recently I had a good amount of respect for. I was told that after being a technician for 1 year, this amount of work is expected. Again, I have only been doing this for a little more than 7 months.…

I’m a new employee at a company I’ve been wanting to working at for a while. To clarify, I’ve been working here for about over a month. On a Saturday, I get hit with a sickness, I feel like complete shit, sore throat, fever, headache—I feel light headed as hell. So I asked my supervisor on text, if I should come in still, but I let him know I was sick. He replies back and texts, yes I should come in to work, and asks why (motherfucker, I’m sick, and hello? COVID-19??). He then proceeds to send another text asking about my symptoms. So I list the symptoms (sore throat, headache, and a bit of a fever), and he texts me that it’s okay, to just stay home. So obviously I stay home, why the fuck would I want to spread my sickness in the middle of an ongoing pandemic?…