Author: Olivia

Should there be an option for a “non-living wage?” Example: 16 year olds working at the local sandwich shop. College kid earning summer spending cash Is the expectation that they earn a “living wage” when making sandwiches? Is the goal to truly make all wages a “Living Wage.”

Is this the new management buzzword? My managers have brought this up a lot in the past few months, so I was wondering if it's happening in other places too.

I’m a 19 year old apprenticeship . I earn below min wage (£4.81 an hour) I earn less than what people with the same or similar jobs do To make matters worse , my supervisor doesn’t seem to want to teach me the complex skills that’s part of my course . so far all I’ve been doing is very basic stuff such as giving medication out . Kind of similar to someone at McDonalds who gives out food .. except it’s food and not meds . I don’t think even think I have a supervisor I get spoken to like shit when I ask how to do something .

After working in “happiest” country in the world aka Finland, I am going back to Slovenia to retire on my future farm. I quit my former work there after I realized it's all on paper, not in reality. It's far from happiest country and half of the population is heavily drinking. Is the pay good? Solid. Overall standard? Solid. But I didn't feel free and they tax the life out of me. Food is beyond expensive and car that costs in US 20k is 35k in Finland. If you can't feel free and have future in country such as Finland, society isn't worth for me. How would I do in Italy then? Not to mention that rent took 30% of my salary. I gave it a good thoughts and decided to give life another, seventh chance. I plan on buying build/agricultular land not very far from city, approximately 5000 -…

I was laid off recently (not from FAANG). I am a software developer. I used to provide fixed monthly income for three people: a gardener, a housekeeper and a personal assistant. I used to give large tips for service workers. I used to have lots of different subscriptions of online plataforms. I used to buy lots of groceries in the supermarket and neighborhood stores. I used to travel, eat out and buy new clothes. I used to go the barber shop frequently. Damn, I used to spend thousands on weed every month. Now I can't afford to do any of it. Now that I'm unemployed, ALL of those people who were directly profiting from the habits of an employed person took a hit. Except perhaps for the large companies, the financial impact on then was not negligible (mainly for the weed guy!). Those people, in turn, also consume from other…

I'm curious of people's opinions about tipping culture in the U.S. these days. About a year or two ago, any time I would comment on the topic, I'd be met with outright hate for not wanting to tip any more. I'm from the 90's, where tipping was 15% at restaurants and 10% or a few bucks for delivery drivers and thats it. And on top of that, it was a bonus, for exceptional service, unlike today where tipping is now EXPECTED everywhere and starts at 20%. Honestly, I'm tired of losing more of my hard earned money to these fucks who dont want to pay their staff properly. And then I had people saying things like “well if you cant afford to tip, dont eat out”, and you know what, fuck those people too. Why am I the one being guilt tripped? I go out to eat and pay for…