Category: Antiwork
Doing some voluntary training modules, this one was for self discovery, managing stress as work: managing and supporting employee wellness. It's a third party training database outside of where I work, but still blatant propaganda.
It has come to my attention that local employees (Ortskräfte) of the six Goethe-Institutes in the USA voted to form a union in April of this year. According to the website, https://goetheunion.org/, “In 2022, shortly before finalizing and implementing the new general employment conditions, the Goethe-Institut USA had to dismantle its longstanding practice of allowing locally employed workers to elect staff representatives [Vertrauensleute] for the purposes of negotiating with the regional management and communicating employee issues to the head office in Germany.” In contrast to locally hired staff, management staff sent from Germany are “hired under German working conditions [and] enjoy the benefits of representation by the GEW union in Germany.” In a way, each Goethe-Institut has a two-tier structure: sent staff from Germany and locally hired staff. I have also been informed that the new “general employment conditions” for the first time now consider locally hired staff to be…
I do daycare for a family and they are constantly looking for discounts. Example: they were always forgetting diapers so I offered to buy them for an extra $6 per week. They said only if I provided them a receipt. Wtf. Supposedly your children are your greatest asset, why try to cheap out on the most important service you'll ever receive in your whole life
I provided a two week notice to my employer on May 1st. Our pay period began on April 24th. After working May 1st through the 5th, he terminated my access to everything so I wasn’t able to work my remaining week. Since I did at least get the chance to work the full two weeks of the pay period, I was at least expecting a full check. I received pay for 32 hours. I was supposed to be paid for 80 hours. He’s cut off all contact for me. The company doesn’t have HR or policies. It’s a Texas based company but I worked in Ohio so I’m not sure who’s employment laws apply. I don’t know what to do or what I can do. Any suggestions or help?
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Hourly remote worker on IT downtime
The company policy is you get 4 hours of paid IT downtime before you go on unpaid IT downtime where you have to stay home and watch notifications to hop back on (I count this as working, which means it should be paid but whatever). Im on IT downtime right now. Technically with their policy, I’d be 30 minutes short of a full day because they don’t factor in a paid lunch. So my paid IT downtime started right before lunch. Does anyone know if I’d get a paid lunch so that I can get a full day? I’m hesitant to ask because they’ll say no and I’m planning on doing it anyways, but want to make sure I have some legal backup.