I work for a restaurant that does out door catering on carts and we usually wear branded t-shirts that we are given for free, well this winter we’ve all been wearing our personal sweaters and stuff to stay warm and management has been annoyed because we aren’t “representing” the brand. They finally had hoodies made and a bunch of us went in to grab them and they are charging employees $20 for these hoodies and they’re defense is that the hoodies actually cost $40
Few weeks ago my father was diagnosed with cancer and so I’m in the process of making plans to leave my current apartment to move my partner, myself and our animals in with him. On top of that, I have to coordinate when my sister in law and her partner will take over our apartment, maybe by mid March. I told my boss this about a week ago as well as my plans to leave my position, and now she’s saying that I’m performing at 80% and that she understands with everything going on but she’d prefer if I gave it 100% Mind you she leaves work early over the slightest inconvenience or the slightest upset stomach or bad mood and often fails to carry out her responsibilities in the office leaving me and my co worker to pick up after her. I’m just tired of having to give it…
For context – we're located in Germany where worker's rights are pretty strong. I hope this post is understandable for foreigners too. If not do not hesitate to ask any questions. The last weeks have been tumultuous. We're a small company of roughly 15 workers. When they tried to fire a long-term employee we decided to start an intervention by founding a worker's committee. As one of the employees initiating the founding of a worker's committee she would enjoy protection against dismissal. She left our company nonetheless because she got a better offer and I'm so proud of her! But by law she was still a regular employee til the end of February and she kept supporting us in the process of getting unionized. As we're a small business our worker's committee will be consisting only one member by law – I am one of two candidates by now. When…
I had been sick and missed some days of work, along with having tech issues which werent even my fault(it was a work from home job). A soulless call center service job, where I was at least attempting to do the best I can. Dedicated 6 months of my time, just to wake up yesterday and have all of my accounts deleted and not even be told I was fired. They didnt even have the courtesy or courage to say it to my face. I called my contractor who got me the job, they werent even made aware until they called. Honestly I just feel uncared and disrespected from the jobs I've worked and I'm in a cycle I don't know how to get out of. Fuck this system.
