Author: Olivia

First off, love the film and the overall message, but this time I'm noticing something new. The boss character, Al Harrison played by Kevin Costner, keeps telling people that he's not going to pay them. First of all when the Russians manage to get into space first and he says the 'how'd we come second in a 2 man race' line. After that he tells everyone that they will be working late and it won't be reflected in their pay packets, so they should warn their wives. Then later with the IBM chaps he tells them several times 'I'm not paying you' because the machine isn't working fast enough. I don't know if that attitude is true to the person that the character is based off of, and I know it was exceptional circumstances that probably aren't reflected in today's world what with the Cold War and Space Race, but…

Hi. As the title suggests, I applied for a job at the end of December. The job was the same title as my current position, but they are looking for 5 years of specific experience, and I have one year in this title. I have extremely relevant unpaid internship/college experience though. I received requests from the company/ indeed for skills and aptitude tests but I didn't get around to them because of the holiday. I received another notification that the position was filled/company no longer interested. Today, I received an email for an interview with apologies for the delay. Is this a red flag? It has been over a month and I thought I was already denied. In my head it sounds like they took someone and they backed out because they hated it, and I am the second option, but I could also be catastrophizing because this is close…

I feel like I'm out of place with a lot of posts. I'm not trying to take anything I didn't earn. I do want the profits I help make to help me back.

In my area, this job is about as good as it gets for people that don't have any kind of specialized training or anything like that. I HATE it. I seriously have never dreaded going to work as much as I do my current position. I don't really do much while at work, though. I sit on the computer and can browse reddit and facebook most of the day. But the environment and co-workers make it absolutely unbearable for me. I work in a prison. The amount of negativity that I encounter every day is taking a serious toll on my mental health. But I make $31/hr. I have been searching high and low for a remote job but haven't had any luck. I have come to the conclusion that I will most likely have to take a paycut that's close to half of what I am making now… Is…

I am tired of Managers and Owners treating Min wage as the Maximum wage they can give.

So I work at a boba shop and recently my coworkers and I did some digging and math and found out that credit card tips we received is not equivalent to what we calculated. dec 10-dec 23: Recorded total tip amount – 1636 Total hours of all workers – 417.85 1636/417.85 is the Credit Card tip/hour =3.9 I worked 34.26 hrs so that multiplied by 3.9 Credit Card tip rate is $133.6 instead I got 73.66 (because the rate they calculated is 2.15) I tried confronting the owners about it but they got mad that we were looking at “confidential information” i.e gross sales and tips. Which they gave us access to so I do not see how it is wrong for me when they gave me access to it.

Years ago when I was young and naive, I was working in a salon. Every service I provided I made 50 percent on. One day I had done a full set of extensions and color on one person. I had performed the service to the customers specifications. She was happy when she left and tipped me well. Service charge was roughly $300. So I made $150 of that service on my check, taxed. The woman changed her mind and came back the next week having clearly messed them up herself (she cut the hair and teased it and put dye on the ends) demanding a refund. My boss obliged then told me I had to pay her back the 300. I told her no, I only recieved half of that cost. She took it out of the next paycheck. The whole 150. I'm like “what the actual hell?” I called…