Author: Olivia

I have a Bachelors in Criminal Justice, 7 years experience in retail, 4 years experience in corporate and bank security, worked for CPS for 7 months (was my planned career), then have done 2 contract jobs the last year. I keep getting stuck into the $17-21 pay scale, and have not been able to break out of it. I have experience working remote with technology, as a case investigator/contact tracer, and as a CSR, and transferable skills from my career that can apply to a lot of “entry level” roles. Yet I keep getting stuck in this pay scale and turned down for better work. I feel stuck.

Since my employer did not care about adjusting my wage for inflation i came up with a new concept. Work time inflation, in principle it is very simple. I signed a contract in a year, let's say 2020 for 40h and a salary of 40k. Obviously I don't care about the 40k but about what I can buy from that money. So if my purchasing power in 2020 was 40k and in 2023 is only 35k and I don't get a raise i reduce my work output accordingly. After all we trade productivity for purchase power, and money is just an interim to measure that. So since I did not get raise i work 5 h less to get back to my initial wage. I think this is a very fair concept, especially considering that some Inflation is desired by the system. But since no one seems to care to…

So at our job, our business pays us a double time pay if we work 7 days in a row during a pay period, however we just got our paychecks in and it does not show that we received any double pay whatsoever, looks like all of the double pay hours that we would have gotten were turned into regular overtime hours. This is despite the fact they told us we would get double pay for working Saturday and Sunday like it has been for the last couple of years. According to one of the employees I work with they said they had got an email a day ago saying that they will no longer be giving out double pay. Is it legal to change your hourly pay rate after you had already worked those hours without prior notice of the change?

A few years ago, I worked for a large multinational corp known for stealing water and souls and making cookies. I'll call them Bestle. My boss there was a “wonderful” guy I'll call Bob. He was one of those who would spend the entire lunch hour telling us all about how amazing he was at X; better than the professionals, by far. X being cooking, cleaning, carpentry, home repair, IT, home theater design, and on and on. He knew everything and was better at it than anyone… At one point, I was given a change request to revise some code involved with delivering reports to clients. I don’t remember the exact requirements, but basically, to achieve the desired goal, I needed to rewrite a complex set of utilities to create the report, find the email addresses for who gets the report, and then email it out to them. Rather than…

I was told by my boss to check my email regularly when I am on leave. I got text message from him which I should have ignored. It was not that important. They messed up my paycheck for a month last year anyways. I am not letting it get to me and told them I will not be able to file my taxes due to incorrect w-2. I left it as it is. I am not going to bother checking my email tomorrow since my worker compensation will not immediately expire while I am recuperating. I've learned not to respond to text, and emails when ure on leave disregarding the medical nature.

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Well this sucks, Andy just sent out an update that there are plans for return office for WFH. Sure it's implied that some may be able to stay WFH but this sucks and shouldn't be happening. Uhg.

This is going to sound delusional and naive to many of you. I appreciate the cynicism with everything that happens in the world. I am no stranger to suffering and cruelty. However try and warm those iced over hearts for a moment as I attempt to expound on how cynicism isn't smart, even if it's logical. Cynicism sucks because it's a defense mechanism of learned helplessness in the face of a crushing system. You accept that things are bad and will go badly in the future because having hope hurts. To get through this crushing hellscape intact we kill off the hopeful feelings because it's untenable to keep them. It works on an individual level because you hurt less while trying to survive in this world. Your beliefs about the world line up with what you see. However it leaves us collectively in a problem. It's the same problem that…