Author: Olivia

Many years ago I worked (briefly) at a Tex-Mex chain restaurant with a similar name to Tía Julia’s. It was my first job and I was very eager just to get hired as it was my first summer home from college. I left the restaurant/ food service industry and haven’t worked there since. I learned a few things from my 2 12-hour days at said restaurant. 1) Always ask how long the training period will be. While I spent two days “training”, I never did find out how long I would train to be a bus-boy. 2) Make sure they tell you your hourly rate when you are hired. I didn’t and I unsurprisingly made the lowest legal rate in my state. 3) Don’t be a yes man. I put up with serious burns and working a job I wasn’t hired for. I was hired as a bus-boy but didn’t…

There are people who would let you live with them as a servant basically like cooking cleaning driving them places but you don't get paid, however you get a roof food don't have to worry about bills or responsibilities except w.e duties you have to do. It was common they called it working for room and board, but labor laws made it a risk for the “employers” and people did take advantage claiming they were forced to be a maid or w.e just to get money if the family was rich. My thing is people still willingly want to live their lives care and worry free, but now there's a stigma to it so much so it's not talked about yet very common…should we normalize it again? And make it legal for someone to say hey I'm ok working without pay as long as I'm taken care of.

I work pest control. I’m constantly overbooked. Everyday. When I was hired I was told 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, one Saturday a month during slow times and twice a month during busy times. I’m constantly booked with over 10.5 hours worth of scheduled work daily. I complain about it and my new boss says I’m required to work 9.5 hours a day now. I’m ready to start walk and so are many others.

I'm going to state first and foremost… I view my position (now) as privileged even though I've gone though some horrendous abuse to get there…. Moving along… So a few weeks back our group lead told us the company is enforcing mandatory vacation for everyone on the last two weeks of the year. I thought this was amazing and was really excited to get some extra time off to be with my family! It's been a rocky year with starting a new job and some of the things that go on really stress me out as industry best practices are not followed. so getting some time off would be great to relevel myself. Well that feeling was short lived lol turns out this is being taken out of our PTO allotment and since I had to use all my two weeks to care of sick kids this year I have…

It seems like every job that I’m qualified for only pays $15 an hour. I don’t have any “passions” job-wise my only passions at the moment are getting the fuck out of my parents house but rent is too much where I live i will never be able to afford that on minimum wage. Am I fucked?

I've worked for my current company for quite a long and I do not many issues as other people on this sub have and I receive a very good benefits package as well. The only issue: my salary has not been increased to be competitive like other engineers and to make that happen I have to find another job. HR blocked my request and I always have a bad feeling about the HR director who I think is kind of secretly racist as I am from a foreign country. After 1 week of searching, I got an offer from one of the top companies in the world. I will turn in my 2-week notice and I know my employer will counter-offer but I will reject their counter-offer. It is not because I think they will find a replacement to replace me or anything that matters, although I never think I…

This morning, the company I work for had a Christmas breakfast for the employees. The owner and CEO were giving speeches, touting how much money we made them this year. Something to the tune of $30 Million plus. Then, we all got our bonus checks. $25. I got a Christmas bonus of $25. It is taking everything I have to not go home right now. I am so upset. Why do we work so damn hard for these people, and get absolutely nothing in return?! It's a morale murderer and it's honestly insulting. $25. That's birthday money from Grandma.

I work for a non-profit organization as a full-time hourly employee, non-exempt from overtime. We had a holiday party on Friday after I had already clocked in my 40 hours. Attendance was voluntary, and so I chose to go because it would be fun! I did not help set-up as I was never asked to, and I have made it known that I do not volunteer for my job – we have had problems in the past due to inaccurate compensation. I got there around 6pm, maybe a little later, and left around 8:30pm – party was supposed to end at 8pm. On my way out I said goodbye to my coworkers and asked if there was anything I needed to bring back with me. They said goodbye, hugs, lovely and they didn't give me anything to bring back. I left with my fiance and friend. Come Monday, about an…