Author: Olivia

I had a job as a chef in a busy resteraunt having never done this kind of work before, I'd work very hard and always go the extra mile for everybody. I was only contracted to work 40 hours a week but ended up being pressured to work 50 hours minimum, I started having panic attacks in the middle of service and developed insomnia. I would work from 10am to sometimes 12-12.30am because they expected us to stay and clean after work. They had promised me at least £10.00 an hour plus tips, they were paying me £8.90, when I confronted them over it they said it was £8.90 but the tips made up for it, which btw was untrue as you only got paid about 13 hours worth of the pay you should have been getting by that explanation. We had a verbally abusive manager who would talk trash…

I don't get it. Were I a billionaire, and given all the benefits of the doubt that I had some knowledge of economics and a semblance of insight into the world around me, would it not make the most sense to raise the standard of living of your employees and the average joe as fast as possible? More spending power will benefit each and every corporation. Every dollar that survives being spent on basic needs will either be used for luxuries or savings, both of which will pad the triple foundation of any business. Power to the consumer will feed into innovation, because companies will have a reason to build better products: People will be willing to pay for them. Eventually that compounds into invention of superior technologies, literally everyone benefits. Don't worry, you'll still be rich if you're rich. It's just that you'll be a rich person among other…

I’ve been working at a large logistics company for the past year and I have noticed an alarming culture present in regards to overtime and was looking for some advice. The general shift pattern is 4 on 4 off, added in with a high turnover of staff and holidays or illness cutting the staff down consistently there is a heavy lean onto people to do overtime, the ongoing party line being “well you have 4 days off so even if you just work 1 or 2 you still have the same amount of days as a weekend. Anyway, the culture problem I’ve encountered is when people are pushed for overtime there is an expectation of an explanation why you cannot work any given day in your off days, for example: Manager: you in at all extra next week? Employee: nah mate Manager: oh right, got much on? Now this is…

I work for a large non-profit and they pay us pretty well for the type of job we do and have good benefits for working in lower-level non-profit positions, but in the greater scheme of things is not all that much, especially because my location is a city with very high cost of living. I took the job because I needed something, ended up really liking it, but now I'm getting priced out of it. It's impossible to find housing that actually is only 1/3 my income, and my partner and I want to have a baby in the next couple years, and I just can't afford to stay somewhere paying me the same as I could make at the gas station down the road. Because I was hired later in '21, I likely won't be getting an annual raise with everyone else. I wasn't really surprised by that, but…

I think we need a couple months at least. Many of us waste most of our lives working. We should have the right to enjoy life.

You live in a union. The United States.