Author: Olivia

In my opinion without a price cap on products and services getting higher wages is pointless. Wouldn't companies just increase prices to make the profits they're losing in wages?

Got let go recently; worked at this job within the past year. It seemed to be a welcoming, low-stress environment providing outpatient services / procedures. It was exciting for me to learn about a new field and be able to interact with patients directly, and I thought it was a good fit. At first. A disconnect began when verbal abuse by one or more long time employees, despite my best attempts to adhere to protocol, became a frequent occurrence. Basically, I got praise from multiple patients for treating them like actual human beings instead of just numbers to be reported. My manager and senior staff weren't happy about it. Most of the clients are elderly and need extra time with most physical tasks, and the patients would express surprise and “how professional I was” that I'd give them a few extra minutes by just being kind. But I was told…

Current Perspective: wastewater treatment operator, night shift, 12hr shift, work 4 days off 3 days and repeat Past History: about 23 jobs that I've bothered to track; general labor, retail, military (army/air force ROTC), office desk (once was a temporary transcriptionist for the CEO of AccuWeather, tank top and chewing tobacco amongst cubicles of suits and business skirts was a unique experience), customer service, outdoor adventuring (think high ropes courses), and a few under the table jobs, hello bouncer community. With all that out of the way, what's wrong with sleeping at work? Nobody, except perhaps one of the former mods of this sub, haha meta joke, will argue that sleeping at a work place and ignoring work that needs or should be done is a good thing. Also nobody will argue that they should be able to sleep at a job that requires their constant attention, like food service…

Psa: Refusing to work will end the forces that allow America to oppress not only its own people but much of the world population. Since America exists only by oppression, this will end the American empire. Keep up the good anti-work!

I’ve worked at a lot of places mostly service industry working in kitchens and it seems like most employers will post notice that you can only call in x amount of times before you face termination. Why not just call these sick days? Most countries require a certain amount of sick days where most employers here expect none. Why not just classify these “call-ins” as sick days so we can at least get a few days off if we feel like shit from being overworked

I’m from Europe and where I live there’s a lot of unions, I’m not in them and i dislike them. But in the US there seems to be a dire need to unionize to get proper healthcare etc. what feels weird is that each union seems to be company specific in the US? Why don’t this sub just get together and unionize together? Put 1-2% of your salary into some bucket and use that whenever there’s legal trouble? That’s how it works here.. there’s not a ‘blizzard union’ but rather a ‘tech worker union’ or a ‘retail worker union’

So I work a normal salary job with a schedule that’s weird. Simply put every pay period (2 weeks) I am paid $30.3 hour for 74.7 hours not 80. That’s normal. I do work overtime (45 ish an hour) and do get paid times and a half. This pay period I worked 36 hours of overtime at times and a half and that was reflected on my check. But also I saw FLSA for 164 dollars on my check. What is this? I’ve never seen it before. Last pay period I worked 31 hours overtime and it wasn’t on it and the check before it I worked 35 hours overtime and no FLSA.