Author: Olivia

I’ve been working at a retail company for about four years now and recently decided to apply for a job at our Head office that would be remote and salary based. I was super excited and was granted two interviews. However, when it came to deciding on a candidate, I received a call from the recruiter detailing how much they wanted me for their team and highlighting all of my strengths they believed would be an asset to the role. Unfortunately they went with another candidate, and they mentioned it was due to some of the feedback my manager had shared with them. So basically my manager has screwed me over knowing that I was more than capable of attaining and flourishing in this role. She then had a sit down with me, and tried to play it off as though I’ll have another chance in 6 months. I’m furious…

I had a month long vacation which was approved and that I was legally entitled to. (For context I am not American, and this occurred in a country where a month long vacation is the norm). Already before my return my manager was being snarky. I had to communicate my college timetable to her and she would write “stop thinking about work and study!” Er, I have to? Then she rostered me on the one day I have classes. I emailed her to remind her I was unavailable that day. And so she just deleted my shift with no reply to my email. So now I’ve returned to my city. I have a few days before work starts. But at my job (retail lol), we have an online roster that only appears during the applicable fortnight. Meanwhile, I could not see the paper roster as I did not want to…

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Today in a meeting at the beginning of the work day, a manager in my department of my workplace said the phrase “stop complaining, it's a part-time job” which had me quite angry to be honest, and lead to me and one of my coworkers discussing some of our managers. During this conversation, my coworker told me that they heard the director of our department call us “LIPs” meaning “Least Important People” as well as saying “A monkey could do it” and I am seething. Without the literal HUNDREDS of employees in our department the building would not function at all, but no, the staff who directly deal with all 20,000 or so people who come into our building in a single evening are clearly super unimportant.

Hello!! I have a question regarding tipping laws and regulations. I work at a new ice cream/over-the-top-shake shop that opened approximately 4 months ago, and I was super excited because the owners seemed really nice, they're young (mid twenties) so I clicked with them well. When I started working, they asked me about tips and said “if we gave everyone the tips all the time, this would be a $30 an hour job!” (I get paid $13 an hour, same as everyone, minimum wage in my state [UT] is 7.25$) Me, not knowing the laws and knowing we were new and probably wouldn't get much business to give me enough wages on tips (they only based the $30 on opening weekend, when in reality it was dead a lot of the time), and also sort of trying to just please the owners, nodded and agreed with them and as such…

On mobile, English IS first language, blah blah blah TL;DR at the bottom. Ended up ranting a bit more than I meant to. As a preface to this story, I don't really have any complaints about the company I currently work for, just my manager. Actually, my only problem with them is that they let the manager do whatever he wants. The department I currently work in has 3 people in it, myself included, after our fourth person quit at the end of January. After hearing about this, I decided to let my manager know in advance that I was actively looking for another job and he should really look into hiring more people for our department. He said okay then and things kept going as they were; I never heard anything about looking for new hires. Someone in another department filed a complaint to OHS (Alberta, Canada) and they…

Hi. I have been working a night job for some months and I don't want to disclose too much information. I felt that the company executives wanted to lead he company in the right direction and start a new on good basis. Anyway I don't to want invest myself into a job and do more than I should if nobody is gonna be grateful. So far they kinda are… But I don't want to feel exploited, and doing the mistake of being exploited.