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Same owner for two businesses

What is the deal if you have the same owner and two different businesses? Let's just say I worked around 75-80 hours per week between two different places of businesses but have the same owner. Would someone be entitled to overtime in that situation?

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Asking for not only resume but CV, cover letter, and LinkedIn profile for an entry level “no experience required” auto detailing position. Then comes the kicker, are you comfortable working for minimum wage?

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Ask MUCH MORE than the other company is offering in a counteroffer

If youre thinking of accepting a counteroffer from your soon-to-be-ex-company, think about it. It cost you TIME to search for another job, to go to interviews, and to have the LUCK of finding another company that would pay MORE than yours. Retention is extremely easy for the company, not you. To get something better you have to WORK to find it. And remember, when youre leaving, have everything in writing, from both companies. Dont leave without a contract or you could lose both jobs. ( I saw some stories like that )

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Lots of people in my department are going on stress leave

And that leaves me and other already overworked staff having to work more. Shall I also go on one? Like I dont have a doctors note. And I am not crazily “stressed” since I am quite resourceful and take ownership. What shall I do…. Manager knows about lack of resourcing. Thing is she also handed in her notice recently. I could leave for other job but I want secondment hence I am staying with my current firm.

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President’s Day

Why The hell do we have holidays in the US (President’s Day Tomorrow) if your fellow employees take it as a badge of honor to go into work.! You’re essentially shamed for even bringing it up. I’m not US born (I can get away with asking simple questions that I know the answer to) so I asked my manager at the last staff meeting this very question. “President’s Day isn’t really a holiday”I was told. But I replied without the added expletive “why then is it on the Glucking Calendar!!!!! Needed to get that off my chest. Thought of you fine people.

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Old company asked me to name my price to come back

I left my workshop job back in august last year to go do causal site work. Alot better money and time off, work is a bit more sporadic but i don't mind it. Workshop job rang me after a month for a chat, they acknowledged that I had been doing a great job when I was there, even acknowledged I was doing the work of two people (which they wouldn't do when I asked for a payrise due to that fact right before I quit), then asked me to name my price to come back.. I wouldn't even give them a number, no amount of money will ever change or make a toxic work environment any better. Company is now in major trouble with WHS do to multiple safety breaches and I'm currently happy as Larry relaxing in the sun, picking and choosing when and where I want to work.

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Got the ole switcharoo- at my own company!

I found a role at my current company that is the same job as mine, just a different team with big accounts- which brings substantially more income for me. I’m at 180k now and this role pays 230-250k! (According to the internal recruiter) I’m over the moon exciting, ready to apply and interview knowing I’m well qualified. I go through 4 interviews in 4 days the following week and the hiring manager calls me on Friday to verbally offer me the role! I’m nearly in tears! I then contact the recruiter to discuss where I’ll land in the 230-250k range ….he comes back and tells me that HR and the hiring manager feels that an 8% raise is what they’re going to offer me and that it’s “really good”! I turn around and call the hiring manager back like WTF. She then tells me she wants someone that wants the…

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Any studies on the relationship between labor market tightness and mental health?

Knowing you can tell your boss to screw off and easily find another good job seems like it would positively impact mental health. Anyone know of any studies measuring this across geo and/or industries?

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I think I’m going to be fired. I don’t know what to do anymore.

I (23f) have been off work for a while now due to mental health/major family emergencies. I think the company I work for is going to let me go. I don’t know what to do anymore. The thought of this continuous wheel of just working the rest of my life with no hope of retirement crushes me. I want to be paid a wage where I can live but I can’t figure out how to do that without working more than I can handle without going off the deep end. I just don’t know what to do anymore. Any advice is welcome.

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There may be inflation, but the greed is far worse.

The fact that some companies admit to it makes it ever worse. Went to Walmart Today. Jack's frozen pizza went from $2.49 to $3.28, an increase of 31%. The wiper fluid I use for my car went from $2.97 to $3.97 per jug. 33% increase. Gallon of milk went up 17%. 5lb bag of flour went up 28%. I get that there is inflation, but this is just greed. Tons of items have gone up over 20%. What kind of sick fuck that runs a business thinks to themselves “we saw record profits this year, so let's raise prices even more”. The thing is as well..no one saw a 20% pay increase, I doubt many even saw 7%. So I think people who were on the edge of poverty are going to get shoved into it pretty hard. That might explain why theft has been on the rise lately, which…