Author: Olivia

I work in a restaurant. I started as a dishwasher but now I’m a cook. I’ve all but switched over to the cook position, only working dish shifts when someone calls out. Yesterday was supposed to be my day off, but my manager calls me and asks me to cover a dish shift for a coworker who called in sick. I told him I would do it, but only if he agreed to pay me my cook rate instead of my dish rate. He agreed, so I made my way into work. Once I get to work, I have my manager try to clock me in with my cook code, but he stops me. He says I’m here to do a dish shift, which I knew. I reminded him that I only agreed to the dish shift if I got paid my cook wages. He shook his head and said…

ELI5 I work in sales management in the industrial/manufacturing sector in the US. I’m grateful to have been compensated for my work, and remote work is not new for me. However, my co-workers were offered work from home, they did a great job and we had record revenue/profits 2022. Now, all I hear is that WFH doesn’t work, people are goofing off, no “collaboration” etc. One glaring problem is the math doesn’t work, their math… Yeah, Jane threw in a load of laundry in between her 6 and 7 thousandth spreadsheet this week. Yep, Beth played tennis over lunch instead of eating a hot pocket in her cube. Jimmy was able to get his 2nd grader off the bus, he worked until 6 and didn’t have to commute home, but this isn’t working. Only in America, can you bust your ass, provide record profits after a pandemic, and then be…