Author: Olivia

My manager took me off the schedule for two weeks because I didn’t come in for three hours this Saturday. She texted me last minute on Saturday morning and told me to come in. I was literally ASLEEP at the time and didn’t even see her message for seven hours. This is after I covered a night shift on Frida and she told me I didn’t have to go on Saturday I have been called in EVERY day this week. I picked up TWO additional 8 hour shifts when other people called out “sick” (because she pressured me) and I stayed an extra four hours one night. My manger told me if I come for 8 hours on Friday (and stay until 11pm) I don’t have to work on Saturday. I stayed up late Friday night, assuming I didn’t have to go on Saturday. Then I wake up to tons…

Just over here waiting for the inevitable stock market crash…

Our company always has eLearning for us to do every year, and although some of it is new things about store standards, a lot of the time it is a yearly repeat on respect in the workplace, guidelines, etc. It comes out to around a few hours, but they tell us to do it at home on our own, unpaid. Is this illegal? Does it fall under unpaid training?

I want to do a job that doesn’t leave me mentally and physically exhausted and pays a decent amount I’ve only done hospitality for a few years and I also worked for deliveroo for a few years (which I loved when it was busy) but it’s so dead now and I need to find something consistent.. I just don’t know what to do

So I won't get sued, the following is purely a hypothetical that I made up. Any resemblance to any actual company, is purely coincidental. Say you work for a multi-billion (trillion?) company that is a pioneer in banking, insurance, pharma, etc. fields. You're an ordinary employee (not management or anything special). The company has a very generous retirement package: pension equates to 80% of your best 5 years, provided you have worked 30 years for them and have a minimum age of 55 when you retire. So, a typical person who started working for them when they were 25, could retire at 55 and have a private pension of 80% of their best five years working for them. That was the story of Martha (also a fictional name). Her best five years had an average of $100K US. Based on her habits, the company's actuarial scientists estimated she would live…