Author: Olivia

I don’t have a clue if this is the right place to post but you guys seem pretty helpful on the other posts! I (17 M) fucked up at work today, which I’ve never experienced before. I currently work as a trading assistant (shelf stacker) in the UK for a very large supermarket business. Btw I have absolutely loved working here, the pay is great and the management know what they’re doing (well, at least compared to my old job as a waiter). I’ve been kept on for a few months after being a Christmas Temp, I’ve got one more month here and if I do well enough, I’ll be able to stay on permanently. Today I was working a 5-9 which I love. However, this shift was going really weird, time just didn’t seem to make sense at all for me this shift and I truly didn’t feel right.…

Thought I would be out of this job by the time my vacation came around so I booked it, but the next job I had set up fell through. Once I knew this, I immediately requested Thursday and Friday off (a month in advance at this point). My boss comes to me a few days later saying that 2 people already requested off for Friday so I can’t take off, but I can on Thursday. I didn’t expect that this would happen since it’s rare that people take off this far in advance and that there’s even 2 people off on the same day. Unfortunately, my job doesn’t have an option of someone just covering my shift since it’s lab work. The trip is non-refundable and I don’t know what to do about Friday. Any suggestions?

I went to school and learned a skilled trade. I graduated last spring from my local community college carrying a 4.0 GPA. Without any experience I wasn't getting much response to my applications, so I went to work doing maintenance in a factory. I had a friend tell me about a job in my field. I have my resume on the employment websites, the next day I actually got an e-mail alert about this job my friend told me about. It was a temp to hire through Express Employment Service. I applied and they called me the same day. I even interviewed that afternoon. They told me the pay, the hours, and the length of the probationary period before I would be hired full time. I can negotiate my pay with the business owner if I'm hired full time. It's a cut in pay but it's the same pay as…

Just looked up salaries for my kids daycare teachers and it is $12-14/hr!!! We pay over $1000/mo for this. These teachers have a difficult job with long hours. What I want to find out is the executives salaries but private companies do not have to post their salaries. What is the best way to find out? Email them? Email other board members?

Why do shitty part time jobs have a mandatory notice period? (they do in my country the UK). It’s pretty stupid because most people will happily just walk out of their job, is it just there to discourage you from quitting? or to get as much work out of you as possible? my last part time job had FOUR WEEKS notice period, and people were actually honouring it. the company was astonished when I said ‘you’re getting a week that’s it’ – and they fired me about three days after i quit. I just wanna know which company exec sat down and said ‘let’s pay them £8 an hour and make them wait four weeks to leave’.

I want to remind y’all if you work one extra minute more than what is required to not get fired. That is a minute y’all will never get back.

I’ve grown up with my parents not telling me how much they make and that’s really messed with my perception of how much I should be paid. I’m lucky enough to be independent of financial struggles because I will be living with my parents until I finish college but I want to be prepared. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you 🙂

Just a joke to lift the spirits a bit, folks!