Author: Olivia

I am a retail recruiter for a billion dollar corporation. I hire people nationwide at low wages to get yelled at by customers at the request of my leaders. Whenever I interview someone and they ask for more money, the most I can get approved is $1 or $2 if they meet the criteria. That's it. These jobs do not pay enough for a two bedroom apartment in every market I've recruited for yet this is what they're paying people. I think I know how to solve it and I need everyone to keep an open mind. I know how pay increases are decided by mega corporations and its not by recruiters but typically operations and HR. Let's say I have a job market with a bunch of dispositioned candidates and most of the notes are “candidate says the job doesn't pay enough”. A few steps will be taken first…

“This country has socialism for the rich, and rugged individualism for the poor.” -Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr, 1968 how many examples of this are there? i'm still appalled that not a single executive went to jail for the economic collapse in 2008/2009. trickle up economics are the name of the game. /rantover

Or are you only interested in taking about working so you can participate in consumerism and capitalism? Wtf is this sub even?

Just needed to vent. So I work for a very large series of outpatient clinics. Our company mandates that all x-ray techs have to do at least one on call shift a month that can be anywhere in their district, bullshit enough but the rest of the job is comparably pretty decent. So I’m on my on call shift today at another office and the company not so infrequently orders lunch for all the workers, today’s one of those lucky days apparently. Well, except for me, the guy who had to travel extra and is doing 12 hours of forced overtime here. Nobody even mentioned to me that they were ordering, just overheard after the food arrived (and no apology either). Meanwhile it’s supposedly “employee appreciation week” (BS anyways) soooo feels like an extra fuck you to me.

They very well could have the right, but I'm pretty burned about this. Basically I've been working part-time in an office for a federally regulated business for over a year now. Usually they have the option for part-timers to work 8 hour shifts, but lately, since New Year's, they've been inconsistent with how many hours they can offer. The shifts on my contract are four hours; the office often asserts a minimum of five hours for part-timers, which is fine bc I really need the work. But despite being able to pick up overtime earlier this week, they've sent an email today saying I can only work three hour shifts next week (lower than what's on my contract). Is this something a company can do under Canadian federal law? I mean, we don't have a union so they've probably slipped one of those iron fisted “we can dictate and change…