Author: Olivia

Hi everyone, I'm just coming here for information as to this unique circumstance I have. First things first, I'm Australian and I love my job and my workplace is usually a non-toxic environment. Secondly, we use a facial recognition clock in and clock out system. Thirdly, after a long hard working day, the clock out machine doesn't recognise me some times due to id assume intense labour and exhaustion changing my face. So some days after trying to clock out for 10 to 20 mins I just leave. Recently my boss said “hey you've been forgetting to clock out lately” I explained what I said above and his response was, “Doesn't matter you have to clock otherwise you won't get paid” . Yesterday I stood there for 10 mins trying to clock out and eventually just left. Fast forward to today and I was standing in the line waiting to…

So my work has paid holidays since the day I started almost 1 year ago. They added a new holiday months ago then printed it out on the holiday sheet and laminated it proceeded to tell us in a meeting that this new day is paid (feb 20, 2023). A week before that day they removed the time. Went from 8 hours to 0 on the electronic time clock (have photos of it too). Because they aren’t giving us hours for that day it fucks up the whole weeks overtime. Went to HR and they said we don’t know. We’ll let you know eventually. You may not even get paid. So is that considered wage theft or wrong in any manner that would allow me to stand up for myself other than getting the same ole we’ll make sure you get your pay eventually. It’s like a robber taking the…

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Hi, I am working in a market research field. My team is comparatively smaller and most of them have been in this field for quite some time. They either have learnt how to take up less work or just are able to showcase that the current work is enough for them. My manager recently joined and he is new to this type of work, even not knowing how to set up or refresh a pivot table. The team members showcase that they have huge amount of work and as I am new to the field and come from a previous worke which was very much fast paced, I tend to do things proactively. Over the months as rest of the team members either find an excuse or just take up a leave during most important meetings, my manager has started to dump more and more work on me just so…

I used to work on a theater. It was my first job. The boss was an old boomer dude, who would constantly curse out my coworkers, who were all teens by the way. He would overwork us and treat us nice whenever he was in the mood. He would throw constant tantrums over small simple mistakes and treated everyone (including managers) like shit. We were short staffed, thanks to the pandemic. There was only four managers and about thirty employees. The majority still went to school. They were teens. He overworked them to hell. A team lead, who was only 17 was overworked 10 hours. He had school the next day and also was told to work later in the afternoon. He did that to many other coworkers. He would also forbid and scold us for speaking about pay. He didn’t like it when we spoke about our wages, because…

Honestly I’m still kinda reeling from this. I had to take a couple days off because my house almost burned down because my brother left the oven on, and when I called my boss, who I’ve always gotten along with, I asked if that was alright. And he was like “Yeah, sure, take all the time you need.” So I go in tonight, work for like two hours, and then he calls me up to the office and told me I was fired. I wasn’t always 100% confident in what you guys were saying, about how our bosses don’t care at all. But now that like 3 people with less experience than me, who have missed just as many if not more days than me are still there, and I’m gone, I know you guys were right, he never gave a shit about me. I just wish I had realized…

So I work a part-time job at discounted home decor store. In our morning meeting today, manager was fed up; they emphasized how we need to step up our work and be a team player. How we need to help the store run smoothly and meet the goals that corporate puts out. However, everyone there is being paid like 12-14 an hour. Sorry not sorry but when you pay the bare minimum you get bare minimum labor. I could care less about hitting corporates goals or promoting credit cards when I have other shit to worry about. Like my schooling or my mother whose some health issues etc. Seriously, fuck this whole “team player” corporate mentality where they expect you to work 50+ hours for literal peanuts so management can just hide in the office all day.

Location is in Europe. In my country there is a legal 1 month requirement for giving notice for employees on a permanent contract. I can understand that, it takes time to launch the job posting, interview and then hire and train the employee. 1 month is plenty. But for my company, it has to be 3. Why? I don't know, it just says it is 3. Unless you can come to an agreement with your manager. Sometimes I wonder if telling them 'I won't show up after X date' is sufficient to get their 'agreement'.

Hey everyone! I hope all is well 🙂 Let’s jump straight in… My manager is telling me that I have to download a work app on my phone to punch in and out. He wanted me to do this when I started my job over a year ago but never got around to it. He texted me around 2am asking me could I come in to the office so he could put the app on my phone and show me how it works. I DO NOT want to do this. I don’t want any trackers on me and it’s already bad enough all the data I use for this job in driving to work using gps and using my own hotspot while at work to do work related things. Is there anyway to get around this? I thought about getting a “burner phone” but my manager and I text here…