Author: Olivia

So I've been doing an under the table job. At least I think it is. They didn't ask for my SSN. Just my name, dob, phone number, and email. In the state I reside in minimum wage is $14.50. I get paid $12 per hour. This is a job I could handle because I have ongoing medical issues that are still not diagnosed by a doctor. Most likely chronic illness, but it's been a process now for almost 5 years. On top of this, they never added other profiles to the system, and everyone signs in under my name. I know this is illegal and I really didn't have many options for work that wouldn't fire me for awhile after calling out otherwise. I'm not sure if I can do anything about this and what I could do.

My work is having a “meeting” soon. I work in an office, I believe it’s a meeting to go over the last year of work, profits, how the company is doing, etc. It’s for 2 hours on a weekday after working hours, in person (my office is in person too). Debating staying clocked in through the meeting and clocking out when I leave, and seeing what HR says at pay time. They haven’t said if it is or isn’t “paid” or mandatory, but went around asking if we’d be going. Not “mandatory” but essentially mandatory. One of those. They’re giving us pizza, and no one knows why we’re meeting. Especially since we had two Christmas parties last month, only one of which during work hours, so we’ve all been together recently. Don’t get me wrong, I like my coworkers, I’m “committed” to the company, but it feels like this could’ve…

Basically one of them was saying “That girl, T, you know that student, well she's always telling me like two weeks in advance that she won't be able to work. Like what am I supposed to do about that? She doesn't have vacation she's supposed to work the days I want. She just doesn't feel like a team player” Fr this is the dumbest thing I heard ever.

He is cutting shifts if people are calling in sick not doing what he wants immediately forgetting policies or for not following “if you've got time to lean you've got time to clean” 100% of the time