Author: Olivia

I recently posted on here about being laid off and having me and my wife’s health insurance canceled and generally being tossed out by my employer. The outpouring of encouragement, solidarity, understanding and generosity. One redditor in particular offered to help to help us financially. Which quite literally just helped us keep our home. Thanks to everyone for the support. It’s keeping me motivated and hopeful. Next step is getting into this union shop where i will have some protection and job security.

Every job i get I end up running from because of either terrible pay, terrible management or both. I’m so sick of it. I just want a job I can feel secure in that fits my strengths. Today my boss humiliated me and demeaned me in front of a new employee. I’m so defeated. I’m almost starting to understand why some people choose to live on the streets.

I get documents detailing meetings between the union and management at my place of work. In almost every complaint the union brings up (largely wage theft via unpaid overtime or adjusting schedules so that OT won't be necessary) management has claimed communication is the error. I've not been at the job long but it seems like every time they have a meeting something is brought up by the union and management states the problem is actually just communication. Is this a common tactic? What have people found are successful ways to address this either with communication or by turning things around on management?

Currently working as a to-go specialist at the same chain restaurant for 3 years, making $10 an hour plus tip but recently I learned I was being underpaid thanks to the help of an ex-employee who got in contact with me. Try talking to my general manager hoping that she'll do the right thing and increase my pay. But instead of doing the right thing she tried to gaslight me by saying that the ex-employee must have lied and that it's impossible for anyone to make more than $10 an hour. So I spent the next couple of days contacting some ex-employees and sure enough, they all said they were hired at $12 an hour plus tip. One of them even went as far as to send me a picture of their old pay stub just to prove that they were making $12 an hour. I also made sure to…

I was let go today for making a small mistake. It was not communicated to me that I needed to improve or was on thin ice in any way shape or form. It was simply because my new manager did not personally like me, and he found an opportunity to let me go. To put icing on the cake I worked for a company that “cares about the people that work for them”, and it is employee appreciation day.

And guess what? Even tho i’m security and work for them, security wasn’t even included on the “food delivery” lists for yesterday and today. Are you fucking shitting me? In a company that could easily gove out monetary bonuses to ALL its emoloyees and they give us a fucking half assed pizza party? Ya’ll, enwrathed is not a kind enough work to express the rage i feel in my heart rn. I want to break literally every single fucking 1000$+ citgo computer in here. I’m so fucking mad. And they geto it of giving bonuses because oh, it’s not included in the contract. This is what i have to look forward to? Work until i’m cured of diabetes or kill myself? Fuck man. I’m tired. So so SO goddamn tired