Author: Olivia

I recently started a new job that was advertised as $16 a hour plus tips, only to find out that’s actually $10 a hour plus tips with a minimum of $16 if the tips don’t bring it to that.

I’m sure most people here already realize this, but with all the recent mass layoffs happening, it’s important to realize that to these companies, you are disposable. Besides creating potential revenue for the company, you have no value anymore. The company I work for currently just laid off 11% of their workforce, and you know who was among those laid off? People who had been with the company since day one. Given over a decade of their life to support the company, and created god knows how many millions of dollars in revenue with their work over those years too. And then they were unceremoniously let go with little explanation on a random Tuesday in January, for no fault of their own! The executives played the markets wrong and lost the company money, and no of course they don’t feel the repercussions of that. No, they drop 11% of the…

Seriously, for the last 10 years I’ve been a slave to a job. I’ve been on call 24/7 as I work in a manufacturing job. When did this become the norm? My bosses (yes I have multiple, that’s how you know I work at a in effectively managed place) think I should just live my life around this job. It’s fucking dumb. Companies should stop being so cheap and hire people on all shifts if they want coverage.

i have not been paid since December 16th, and that in result has made me late on pretty much all my bills- I have gotten extensions on a lot of them like power, gas, phone. I received a letter for eviction a few days ago though if I don’t pay within a certain timeframe. And I had court this past week and now am going “back to trial” since I didn’t have the full amount ready. I have never been more stressed and I am trying so hard to keep my mental health okay. I read it’s not the employers fault I live paycheck to paycheck so I can’t really do anything but I genuinely don’t know what to do and I am trying to read on my states laws and I think it said 30 days they have to pay you but somewhere else I saw employers might be…