I start a union job on Monday, an electrical apprenticeship. I've been trying to get in since 2019 and was delayed due to the pandemic. Since then I've worked for the state government investigating child abuse, and I've worked as a waitress. I've always felt overworked and underappreciated and underpaid. Here's to hoping the union is a good choice for me!
Cover Letters are worthless because they ask you in the interview why you want the job and why you think your a good fit.
Hi, I am going to be as vague as possible. I work in the corporate housing industry and they have seen an influx of international requests which requires someone to be working from 8pm-7am central and Saturday/Sundays day and night shifts. Our managers told us on a meeting and asked people to volunteer to be “on call” for the night shifts and Saturday/Sunday until they could find people who could actually work. Now being “on call” is not as bad as actually having to be at your desk working, but the base pay is $50 and caps out at $150 if you take “6 or more calls” for an 11 hour shift. Which equates to $13.60 an hour. Also, if you are on call during the night shift you are still expected to come in and work your 8 hour shift the next day. Now, I am a deep…
Used to work construction (before those greedy pricks at wall street fucked it all up in 2008) One day it was so windy that the crane guy just went. “- Nope! Union rules say its not safe to use the crane in these conditions.” And he just went in to the break room and got some coffee until the wind would settle. Now i was outside bending rebar. When i was done and carrying all these rebars back, there was a sudden gust of wind, on the roof of the house we were building (8 floors) there were some metal plates just lying there. I heard some weird noise, and then a “BANG!” A sheet of metal like 3 feet times 6 feet just landed next to me, it passed right over my head, and buried itselt like 6 inces in to the ground. I am very lucky to be…
This might be better on recruiting hell, but I’m sick of employers pushing menial tasks onto potential employees. I’m not on the clock, why do I have to spend 30minutes every single application for a hiring company to determine whether or not I’m good at scheduling?? Let’s face it, the employer is still going to look at my resume, still going to ask me for a phone interview, and is still going to talk to me whether I do those tests or not. And I’m sure it doesn’t really help HR. And, god, they are such a time waster! Like, what is the point?? “Dance, monkey, dance!” I miss the days where I could turn in a paper resume/application.
I don’t know if this is a place to put this type of post but I felt compelled to share so that no one else becomes a victim to this. A friend of mine quit a job they had been working on for almost a year to start at another company. The new job fired them and then filed for unemployment using my friend’s information. Friend has been going through hell going through this. Be careful out there.
I’ve been with my company for what will be 4 years in November. I realize that I am younger (24f) and I have a lot of things to improve on. I was promoted from a bank teller to a project/ business developer in September of 2020. Last year I worked my damn ass off improving my skills, taking critiques seriously from my boss, and I made so many improvements with projects and the business. My annual review was a couple weeks ago and guess what my raise was? Only 3%. Are you kidding me? I got a pay cut for working my ass off?! I am pissed and at a loss. What they said was oh but you do get bonuses and benefits so it’s okay. Everyone there freaking gets these too! So I’ve been working on my resume and casually searching for jobs. I’m worried though that I do…
We are a unionized team of 70 neurodiagnostic technologists. We have been in union negotiations for nearly 3 months. At this point our contract expires Monday and we will not be renewing once again to continue our talks. We plan to start striking indefinitely. We have stalled over a 1.8% raise over the next 3 years, and no offers on our retirement requests. They are also cutting anniversary raises. Every negotiation in the past decade we have come out with 8-9% raises over 3 years. This year, with inflation at an all time high they are basically asking us to take a pay cut. Mind you – we are the people on the field providing field neurodiagnostic care to ICU patients after: cardiac and respiratory arrests, which with COVID increased exponentially. stroke hemorrhages encephalopathy/encephalitis status epilepticus non-accidental trauma in children and much more On top of that, we provide the…