Author: Olivia

So my employer, a suburban park district in Illinois, is now mandating that our landscape staff either eat their lunches in the field (I.e. in their work truck) OR factor in drive time to their 50-minute lunch break. They used to get 2 15-minute paid breaks and a 20-minute unpaid lunch, but now it’s one 50-minute break. There IS a break room at our facility, and it’s not more than about 15 minutes away from anywhere in the District, but the order has now come from on-high that we cannot leave a work site somewhat early to get back to our designated break area. Everyone else in the District does not have to do this, only Landscape staff. Any insight on this?

I put my two weeks in at my job at the escape room company I work with and went to their hottest competitor. -My current job constantly talks about not being able to pay us but hasn't put ticket prices up since before 2019 when they bought the place. The price is the lowest in the entire region because of this. -They told me straight up that they only wanted to hire an older male manager (hiring discrimination) who is good at fixing things. -They made me pay $200+ on a doctor's note to prove I was sick and didn't reimburse it. -I asked for a raise AND a promotion, they put me as keyholder with a $0.50/hr bump and said they couldn't give me a raise until August. -I worked keyholder, realized I was an unspoken Assistant Manager for $12/hr (several less than our previous AM for the same…

I just wanted to get this off my chest because I keep ruminating and have all the feels. I was born poor. I have been working since I was 15, first on a state labor farm (I was institutionalized) and then at 18 after running away from home with a girl and child (we're still married, 15 years now). I've gone from unloading cargo at night, fry cooking, werehouse work, retail, assembly line factory worker and then Healthcare where I'd been for the last 11 or so years. When I started that job, I had minimum wage but full benefits and a matching 401K plan. 4 years into that job, our retirement plans were frozen and our benefits were stripped away. Despite this, I kept working. Coworkers came and went. I've seen some of them even pass away from old age and health complications. Regardless of the job, I bonded…

My girlfriend works at a certain “fast food” joint that happens to sell spaghetti and chili. The food may be good, however, I have witnessed some sketchy behavior from the management there. I am not sure if this is standard practice or not, but I feel like this is a loophole in the system. Instead of firing people, they literally schedule them 0 hours. Employees that have this happen to them end up calling in and wondering when they work again, and they just say they “don't know yet.” Eventually, they just stop calling and disappear. Funny thing is, they are still listed on the clock in machine, but with no hours. There are dozens of people on there that haven't been to work in months, and I have seen them working full time elsewhere. Is this legal? I feel like they are doing this to prevent them from having…

1.) They are always hiring If they are always hiring, they’re always firing. Companies that see employees constantly come and go more often than not means that the job is not good for the long-term or for a serious career. This is because rather the nature of the job is not worth the pay and benefits and people are leaving on their own, or because corporate is constantly firing people to hire on new people that won’t need to be paid as much. It could also be the result of toxic management firing employees that could potentially do their jobs better than they could, and the management is trying to get rid of their competition. Now, there can also be cases where the corporation will frequently fire new employees due to them not being a good fit for the job or for being genuinely bad employees, but if this consistently…

Worked for a Fortune 500. 2022 I had enough. Non union, two stints of 21 days in a row being notified at last minute in the middle of little league season. Saturdays on short notice. In early, out late. Berated if I left on time. Tried like hell to train and motivate people. They didn't care. To keep sanity in my house I would call off for my wife to give her a break which put me at the verge of termination for attendance. I only used 2 sick days for myself when I absolutely needed them. 2023 wife got sick around V- day. Used FMLA for all my sick pay and floating holiday (company time). Started a new job in that time and walked the FUCK away. Getting paid from both for additional 3 weeks and have left over vacation that I'll still get paid from old fortune 500.…