Author: Olivia
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End the pizza parties
Went to Chipotle for an early lunch with my kids today and was greeted by a sign: “Due to staffing shortages we will be opening at Noon”. Okay great, more “shortages”, guess we’ll come back another time. Fast forward to tonight, wife and I decided to get dinner there instead. Placed an order online at 5:10pm, showed up at 5:40pm. The doors were locked, yet peering through the glass showed a full crew of staff working furiously inside. One of them saw me standing there awkwardly holding two kids, came up front and opened the door. Employee: “Our system was down and just started working.” (Employee starts taping up “IF WE DON’T HAVE YOUR ORDER CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx FOR A REFUND” signs) Me: “Okay, I ordered online, do you have an order for ?” Two people start looking through the pile of printed orders and can’t find my name. “Sorry but…
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i got fired for fainting at work
so yesterday i felt ill in the morning and i decided to go to work anyway. not knowing i had a 103.4 fever. i was working all day yesterday and my shift ended at 4, they told me i could go home at 3:30 because they saw how pale i was, and i said “it’s okay, i can do this.”. i worked as hard as i could accidentally dropping a fryer basket because i was so weak i couldn’t hold it up with one hand as i can usually do on a day im not sick. obviously. i dropped it back into the fryer and hot oil burned me all over, i looked up and everything started spinning and i fainted. it was about 3:45. i was taken to the ER and they told me i had a fever, which i didn’t know i had, and strep throat. they asked…
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Know your worth
I'm still in high school, and only really use Reddit for browsing memes, my hobbies and other stuff that I'm interested in. This subreddit popped up in my recommended feed a little while ago when I went down a rabbit hole and I initially brushed it off thinking it didn't apply to me (which in a sense is right) but then it kept showing up in my feed. I was born into a very, very, VERY fortunate situation. As the youngest of four siblings I was always gifted and spoiled both in academic ability and extracurricular activities. I didn't realize how much better my life was until the pandemic started and I had to watch classmate's connections constantly drop over zoom calls and my own teachers sometimes not being able to attend them because they had to take care of their kids. My parents immigrated to the US from Poland…
Hello everyone, here's a situation: Jessie the employee who works at Johnny's Pizzeria got back from a paid FMLA and after two weeks working, gave a two weeks notice letter. Meaning, Jessie's last day would then complete the 30 calendar day return to work period. As the U.S. Department of Labor states: An employee who returns to work for at least 30 calendar days is considered to have “returned” to work for the purposes of the FMLA. My question is, can Johnny's Pizzeria recover all of the health benefit premiums and/or salary paid during Jessie's period of FMLA leave?
Getting new federal law to protect workers rights should be the goal. It's nice to see unions getting support but unions are not as always as innocent as they appear on the surface.