Author: Olivia

Some Backstory:I have been doing business with this client for over a year now. I built a tool that converts one file to another and saves them around 6 hours of manual work per month. There is still some manual processing going on and thus sometimes it doesn't work – inconveniently most often on production night… I helped them. And then I asked for compensation afterwards as my help was necessary due to a screw up on their part.My mail before this interaction was basically “pay me what you want, but if you don't – you might end up with no more support”.Enjoy 😉 https://preview.redd.it/zmid9ylopzh81.png?width=650&format=png&auto=webp&s=678eed2f631c83e3df25454e93ce65846725a478 https://preview.redd.it/zgjfo6mopzh81.png?width=638&format=png&auto=webp&s=396e2fe65395b506636e365a221512afb9ff5fa1 https://preview.redd.it/4hh35emopzh81.png?width=628&format=png&auto=webp&s=c159512fdfc276dc79821e2818908249f8ad1f2e https://preview.redd.it/sn4tr1mopzh81.png?width=658&format=png&auto=webp&s=35f2c0c902c380faeaa7ec599b598a032b034976

Hi there, I'll try and keep this short and sweet. I just need some other people's experiences/perspectives. I work as a project manager in construction and have been here for two and a half years. Came in as a trainee starting on £22,000 with no responsibility. I'm now overseeing over 80 projects, I'm in the office from about 6:30/7am to 4/4:30pm and I'm only being paid £26,000. The job is stressful and we are understaffed and it's now taking a hit on my mental health. Am I being paid fairly for the hours and responsibility I now have? Should I looks somewhere else? Should I be greatful for what I'm getting? Any opinions are of value. Edit: some of the 80+ projects are small. They range is from 50 man hours to about 2000 man hours of work.

It's very much legitimate in EU, why not in the US?

When I sit down and think about how I'm being exploited in the workplace, I feel angry, confused, and hurt. Then I challenge those thoughts with, “I'm lucky to have a paying job” and “plenty of people have it worse than I do.” Essentially, minimizing my experience and questioning whether my feelings are valid. It stops me from making moves. Y'all, where are these brain messages coming from? Am I subconsciously buying into capitalist propaganda? How do you keep your thinking on track?

My boss earns £47k a year whilst I barely hit 22k, he still insists on me doing rotas and texts me on my days off about them. Told him today that I wouldn't be able to help as I am on my days off, he then had a huff and told me the close last night was shit. Cool, still on my day off though.

So this happend a while ago but I thought I'd share since it seems kinda fitting. I'm a uni student and do tutoring on the side, mostly maths for people close to their A-levels. Used to be that I did this as a quasi-freelance guy for a local tutoring agency, that also employed my mother (relevant later on). All admin stuff was done by the owner and his father (a very nice dude actually), I just had to write down my hours and I'll get my pay at the end of the month. Some time in the father retired and the bosses new gf took over. Thats when things went downhill quickly. They wanted to give us equipment (pens and stuff), but wanted us to pay a deposit for those (refused to pay for it, just used my own stuff). They also never cleaned the rooms where the lessonst took…