Author: Olivia

Prefacing this by saying I work 2 jobs just to break 50k, and the full time offers 401k with NO MATCH. Part time is a state job with 401a, match, and a union that's actually worth a damn. Here's the breakdown – 40 hours Tuesday through Friday for the full time, 16 hours Saturday and Sunday for the part time, with Monday off for recovery, doctors appointments, and anything else that needs done. For three years, with the full time, Tuesday through Friday has been the norm. Rarely any overtime, maybe a Monday if we're in a crunch and Friday is a holiday. For two years, I've been filling in for the forklift driver who got fired for drinking on the job that he has yet to replace, telling me “don't worry, this will be temporary.” Mind you, I'm not OSHA certified. The last time OSHA was there was when…

I’m incredibly frustrated. I am a single, unmarried individual claiming “0” on my W-4 and last year I owed $743 to the IRS. It pretty much induced a mental breakdown because I was really expecting to be receiving around $1,000, not paying almost that. I filed on turbo tax. This year I’ve already gotten my tax documents I need to file. I went to a tax office and filed in person and they said I would owe around $340 dollars this year. Not as much as last year but still, what gives!!! My gross income is less than $70,000 a year, I feel like I should not owe more taxes. Owing money to the IRS, coupled with bills and just overall higher cost of living has left me with a sour taste in my mouth for a while. It should NOT be this hard to exist.

I applied to an internal job posting at my current employer. The role I applied to had a better division of work and life in that you weren't expected to work off hours and didn't have any on call responsibilities like I do in my current position. When they interviewed me, they asked about my career goals for the next five years. Having already spoken to the hiring manager about my situation prior to the interview, I answered candidly that I was looking for a role that gave me better work life balance while I am pursuing additional education and after a couple years I would want to progress into a role that allowed me to better apply my newly gained skills. A couple days later and I see I've been rejected from the job. I asked the hiring manager for feedback and he said, almost verbatim, that I had…

Local BBQ place near me has been having staffing problems for months. They post to Facebook about fast paced, friendly environment, flexible hours, with benefits. Starting at $18-22 an hour. Friend interviewed they offer you $14 an hour, which is just above our local minimum wage with “opportunity to quickly get raises” uh huh. The hours? Morning shift 4am to 230pm. Or day shift 10am to 9pm. The benefits? A free meal with every 6hr+ shift, but just the cheaper meals with 1 side. Now they are crying about only being able to open for 3 hours a day. Mind you this place charges $25 for a brisket sandwhich and 1 side. It's good BBQ I admit but you can't lie to people about pay, then cry when they won't take the bait.

I'm talking myself into quitting my job – welcoming others to join in, as well. The job I currently have is at a college. I work on what's essentially internships for NP students (over 110 each term). The workload is unmanageable. I'd been doing pretty well for about 1 annual cycle, but for a lot of reasons, the whole thing is falling apart. The healthcare industry is collapsing here, so student placements have dried up, which requires more of my time to try to hunt down opportunities and pushes more and more other tasks to the wayside. After nearly 2 years of this, the whole thing has fallen into disrepair. On top of that, I keep track of each students' immunizations including COVID and annual flu, student licensure, certificates, and make sure they keep up with them. When a student does actually get a spot, each of our sites has…

So I’m an accountant in Canada and work mainly only public companies, I’m in my third year, just wrapping up my CPA and this busy season really had me and my coworkers wondering what busy season is like in Europe. Really looking for any European with experience in big 4- as in what are your hours, do they change much for us January to end of march all my weeks are minimum 60 hours of charged time to my clients or I get dinged (I know it’s not as bad as a lot of people here and the wages) we don’t get paid overtime, and we also don’t get to bank the OT – In Canada at least only 1 firm lets you bank overtime all the others you basically just have to work those hours for nothing. Really curious if it’s much different as I have the opportunity to…

Hi everyone, I’m currently on the tail end of my plumbing apprenticeship in Indiana. My original plan after receiving my journeyman/plumbing contractors is to leave my current job and go out on my own and work for myself. However over the last 6+ months my girlfriend and I have been considering moving out to Northern California. We have vacationed there multiple times and prefer it out there in pretty much every way. She finished college last May and is currently working outside of her degree so changing job fields wouldn’t be an issue for her. I don’t have a college degree and don’t want to change job fields either. My question is what difficulties might I face joining a union with my background? We’re on different codes and the license would not carry over from what I understand. Would I have to completely restart an apprenticeship? Does anyone have any…