Pros Money Food A place to live (if you can afford it) Cons Long hours depending on the job, boss and or the company. Harassment or Neglect in the workplace. Hardly any raises and if your lucky its only 25 cents. Taking time off can be a hassle. Most companies want you to work nights, weekends and holidays. Lack of housing/affordable rent. A solid chunk of your pay goes to medical bills, a mortgage, rent, car payments, cell phone payments, etc. If you are a reliable employee you are likely to be called in if someone calls out of work and it's your day off. Your workload can get hectic depending on your boss, job and or the company you work for. Your work will sometimes call you during your time off. Inflation. Gas prices are still high. Lack of benefits and if any some companies want to still take…
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The French Uprising
'[I]ncreasingly, those we call ‘white-collar workers’ also suffer from managerial stultification, from the blind control of shareholders, from the idiocy if not toxicity of their bosses’ choices. They aspire – a tremendous aspiration – to have a say on all that which has been taken from them.' (Frédéric Lordon) https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/the-french-uprising
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Paying For My Own Pay Rise
Work in a restaurant in the UK in a salaried management position that also comes with quarterly performance related bonuses. From April 1st the national minimum wage is going up to £10.42 an hour so the company is looking at a wage increase for everyone across the board. We have been waiting for a month for news of our pay rises. On Friday 31st March we got the word. The news seems great at first, until they also tell us that they’re changing the bonus system. Some people are not able to hit their targets and are not getting their bonuses, so the bonuses are being cut by 50%. The 50% that has been removed is now being added to our monthly salary. The company has framed this as ensuring we get more guaranteed cash in our pockets. However, my restaurant consistently performs well and hits targets. So the way…
My boss texts me outside business hours constantly. I don’t reply until I’m working but I have pretty bad anxiety so it can throw my whole night or weekend off. I’m trying to set up the focus feature on my iPhone but I know that when people do that to sleep, it shows me that notifications are silenced at the bottom of the message train. I don’t want him to see that when he texts me or else he will eventually figure out that he’s always silenced.
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Am I transferred or fired?
Longtime lurker and empathizer, first-time poster here. I was just fired from my position and told that I can transfer to another team “if I want.” Keeping it vague but I was hired by one team to do coding in a certain language for certain projects. The first three months of being here was very good for me and I was able to join in on projects for which I was hired and excel in them. Then the work there dried up and I was left with no projects to do sitting idly for weeks at a time. The manager began putting me on projects way out of my comfort zone in terms of programming language and subject matter with the promise that my colleagues would help train me, but truth be told no one had time or interest. Meanwhile my colleagues were making comments about how little I was…
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Free your time, free your mind
