Hello everyone! (I live in Canada not USA)** So some background, I've been working for this company for about 3 1/2 years and I really like my job and the people I work with. My job is pretty easy, I take inbound calls for a few credit card companies to do customer service. My only complaint with my employer is that they suck for wages. 3 years ago when I started I made Min wage ($14), and now I make $15.35. Last year this company's net income was 600 Million. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a much higher increase in my raise this year considering how much money they make. What kind of increase do you think I can ask for, and how do I do it, I've had no experience with this before. Also, I can threaten to leave but I wouldn't because there are so…
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I am meant to be working tomorrow. Nobody can cover for me tomorrow. After some back and forth she said I should still come into work. They've tried to force other staff to come in tomorrow. They want me to come in and spread a stomach bug at work. It's unreal. I can't think it's legal as well. Managing director up until 5 minutes ago was refusing agency staff. However she had the realisation there really will be nobody available tomorrow. What really pisses me off is my manager claiming she cares about our welfare when it evidently a complete lie.
The government said the Fair Wages Commission was also working on the third and final part of its mandate — to examine the gap between living wages and the minimum wage in B.C. They are going to increase the minimum wage and are looking at tying it to inflation. Which is sort of bullshit since who cares if not enough money is tied to inflation but still isn't enough?
s this even legal? Here's the email they sent me (with PII redacted): https://postimg.cc/PNBKpzqc This company has always yanked me around, so this almost doesn't surprise me. For context: my final day with them was Sept. 15, 2021. I filled in my online timesheets perfectly accurately, but I continued to get emails from them requesting that I fill in my timesheets. Even though I had logged every last hour I worked (no more, no less), they insisted I fill in the dates that made up the remainder of that pay period as unpaid time off. OK, fine—I logged back into my timesheet, and filled in the rest of that week as time away. Since zero hours were logged for those days, there's no way I can imagine them paying me for them. Does this company have any legal recourse? If I respond (in order to avoid implicitly agreeing with this…
I feel like the number of people who want to be content creators has risen dramatically over the past 5-10 years. Particularly for Gen Z and Younger Milennials born around 1995 or later. I wonder what impact this will have on how Gen Z and what they decide to do with their lives. It definitely feels like more and more people are definitely trying to escape from the Corporate 9-5 Grind though in any way they can.
In the past, I've always found another job first and then given my 2 week notice, but at my current job – I have a great relationship with my boss. She really tries to tell me how much she appreciates me and my work as often as she can, but I need to find something that pays more and is a little more fast paced. I'm in the very early stages of applying elsewhere and am not in a huge rush to leave this company until the right role comes around, but I also feel like should I even let my boss know I'm looking elsewhere? I fear she might feel betrayed/blindsided if I just put my notice in.
My work definitely corners me when it comes to coverage. In fairness I sometimes need coverage too but I always find myself covering beginnings / endings of shifts that end up being 10 hours, instead of my boss calling in a sub. I cover for my boss who is a manager and gets paid a manager’s wage but I don’t get paid more for that shift when I cover for it (with subs covering for me so it’s usually kind of a shit show). I’m always the first one they ask and it feels like they ask because they assume I’m just able to do whatever, whenever. For personal reasons I cannot leave this job right now and so I want to ask for a raise. In March it’ll have been a year and they know I’ll be with them for another year at least – what’s an appropriate/commanding way…
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Doing too much
It’s wild to me how so many employers expect you to do things outside your job description. Like another person’s full time job. I’m the second newest employee at my company and I’m being trained on someone’s position in addition to my own so I can cover them when Theyre out. (Yet nobody could cover me when I was out months ago for a couple of doc appts and I got a talking to about missing work). I understand the employer wants to get more bang for his buck but at the same time, my job description and contract don’t cover that. Shouldn’t employers pony up more money to have us do more work than what was agreed upon? Is that a wild thought in todays world?!
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Need help for my meeting tomorrow
I’m 22f in California So, I’ve been with my company since the end of august. When I was hired, I was offered $18/hr (later learned that was the lowest end of our pay scale for my position) and I was the only full time team member in my position. I live really far from work and my commute is easily 50+ miles one way. We get paid miles as well as hourly on our drive time. Because of this, I was doing alright because I was able to accrue some decent OT with my commute. My job is similar to a traveling salesperson in that I travel to different locations where my companies product is sold and promote it for a couple hours. It’s been known that my commute was a point of contention for our director and payroll dept. they’ve been pestering me asking when I’ll be able to…