Author: Olivia
I’m an overnight stocker who’s the most experienced on the team and actually love the job as it’s a good workout and makes time go by very fast. However, I’m often asked to break down pallets of freight alone while my teammates begin stocking (usually with around 2-4 pallets remaining). Not only that, I’m sometimes left to finish multiple aisles alone while management has my teammates, again, doing easier tasks like front-facing. Then, I’m asked to clean up the cardboard and plastic, condense our back stock into apple boxes and build a pallet of those sometimes without even taking my final break because of how many boxes are left untouched. I’ve spoken to my manager, assistant manager, and store manager, and all have either said things would change or argued against it for their own personal reasons (ex: “it gets too crowded with everyone trying to unload the pallets”) when…
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this seems legal
This is long, but I’d be so grateful if you read and helped me out. I don’t know what to do. I hope this is the right sub to post on since this is work related. If not, please let me know which sub you think this would be appropriate for. I’m in a really upsetting situation. Back in October I needed a major surgery of which I gave my job 5 months notice. The surgery was very unique and the wait for a specialist clearly was forever the specialist who was highly recommended was out of network (more on that below). My recovery was 6 weeks home and I could start working remote after the first 2 weeks. Well once I was able to start working from home my job decided to move me to part time. I could not afford to work part time and I was truly…
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Exploitation is at an all time high.
Employers today are exploiting our labor more than any other time in history, yes including the days of slavery. They'd literally pay more to keep us as slaves, than they pay us as employees. You're responsible for a slave 24/7/365. First you have to buy the slave. Then you have to house them. And feed them. And give them enough healthcare to stay productive because you take care of your property. How much would all that cost today? With employees you're only responsible for them for the time they're working. You don't have to buy an employee, they'll come to you. If they can't afford housing that's their problem. If they can't afford food it's their problem. If they can't afford healthcare it's their problem. When they're no longer productive enough you just fire them and get another. These people are saving money. This is the new slavery. They don't…
I feel like all decent paying jobs in my field have fierce competition. Even the entry level positions for my field have a lot of competition. I am surprised to keep hearing that right now the job market is swayed to candidates, for what type of roles exactly? I took a role that had 50 applicants for an entry level role right out of school and feel lucky I even got this job.
Backstory: Two people quit right before thanksgiving and I agreed to go from part time to full until we could fill the position. We went from five people to three. The third was totally useless and dangerous as we work with animals and his mistakes were very stupid. He was never once wrote up and was given so many excuses by our head manager. Dude literally sexually harassed someone that was helping out our team, as well as asked HER what to do for a job he had been working at for months. They never hired any new people and then, surprise, he quit by no showing almost two months ago. Well my department manager gets approached by our general manager about hiring someone, something she was never given access to or discussed. Turns out big boss lady wasn’t even looking for any new people, nope! Not during that entire…
