Author: Olivia

I interviewed for national chain retail store general manager of a single location. I am qualified. They offered me the job. They offered $57k and one week of vacation after being there a year. For that pay they expected me to run the front end and back end of the store and keep the store fully staffed with minimum wage workers who have to stand all day on cement floors and stock shelves kneeling on cement floors. They expect me to work 6 days a week with no time off and to cover when people don’t show or there is a staff shortage. So that turns what equates to $27 an hour to probably $15 an hour because it’s a salaried position. I laughed out loud when they said that I would have the opportunity to earn a quarterly sales bonus of up to $950. Wtf. Is this a shit…

My employer has made some questionable decisions lately that lead me to want to start keeping a meticulous record of how much I'm working each day. We have the standard business hours of Monday through Friday, 9am-5pm and I and my teammates are salaried (non-exempt). In my state, anyone non-exempt working more than 40 hours per week is entitled to 1.5 overtime pay. Additionally, the state does not require employers to give meal breaks; we are allowed a half hour for lunch, but I can't recall if there's anything written to that effect. When I'm tallying up my hours, should I include that half hour or not? As an example, today a ticketing error meant that I worked from 9am until about 530pm with my lunch around 1pm. Should I record this as 8 hours or 8.5?

Dealt with toxic work environment for the past several years and finally found a great new department within my company and got hired. In my previous job they tried to write me up for taking company approved leave after my Grandmother died, and fired competent people for speaking up on problems within the organization. People are being hired off the street to replace the long timers who are leaving in droves. New people with no experience are making $10K more than those who have worked here for years. My managers are refusing to acknowledge my new job and want me to train my replacement while still performing all my current duties. I’m sure others can relate?

Just doesn't have a clue what is going on and all their mistakes are piling up

I accepted a job offer at Geico almost a month ago with the start date being next week. Thought it was weird that the interviewer didn’t ask me if I had any questions, which I did. He didn’t give me a chance to even squeeze it in, but afterwards he offered me the job. I felt pretty off about the whole ordeal but I still accepted because I wanted out of retail. So i decided to accept the offer while I still looked around. I got an offer for a better job in a field I’ve been interested in for a while and background check has passed and all the paper work is done, so I start next week on the new job. Only dilemma I’m facing now is that I feel pretty bad about turning down the first offer, even though I know they’d fire me in a heartbeat.…

I've been at my current job almost a year now, so I havn't seen this yet, but there is a meeting coming up where EVERYONE must be there. From what i've been told, these “All hands on deck” meetings basically boil down to a big Finger Pointing contest: A “YOU guys need to do XYZ better” kind of thing. Basically blame everyone else except yourself. So…how should I comport myself? My first instinct is litereally come in with a big box of popcorn and treat it like the circus it will be, but I'd love to hear ideas.