Category: Antiwork

It seems sus to me.

Applied for a job with a salary range within my parameters. I'm new to the field (only just finished school for it a few months ago) and was definitely expecting to get the minimum due to that, which worked for me. So I've only been applying for jobs with a minimum I can work with. During the phone interview, recruiter tells me they'd actually pay an entire 10k less than what they listed as the minimum. I didn't say anything; I thought it must've been MY mistake and I must have gotten the range wrong when I applied, or it was just an Indeed estimate I accidentally mistook for their own. But of course, after the call ended, I go on Indeed and see they did in fact apparently lie about the range. It was listed there plain as day. During the call, recruiter tells me something along the lines…

I’m a legal assistant for the public defenders. One of the attorneys I assist is horrible at client communication. He never ever takes his damn client calls even though he’s in office. It’s not like the guy is in trial or doing motions because I would know. I deal with all his client calls. 98% of them are people complaining that he doesn’t get back to them or they haven’t heard from him over a month. All I do is take a message and pass it along. I can’t even schedule appointments because the attorney does it himself. I continue taking the message. I told my supervisor that this is a big hurdle I’m experiencing because I’ve run out of excuses to say for why the attorney hasn’t reached out. Most often these people have tons of questions about their case. I can only do so much. My supervisor just…

Just got a text on my day off asking if I could be available for an investigatory interview? Anybody ever had one of these? Curious what I’ll be walking into.

Just looking for some advice… I work in specialized medical testing. Very high demand, decent pay, but the tests are a cash cow for providers so lots of exploitative employment practices bc we are where they can save money. So, get hired last Dec make sure my contract is good, protects me. Spend 9 months traveling 2.5hrs daily each-way to their remote facility, providing excellent care, minding my own business. Oct they terminate me with 2wks notice due to “misjudged market”. Don't pay out anything they are required to (pto, 1st check, bonus, not even my full last check). I immediately file a wage claim with the workforce commission. Today I finally get a call from WC, I find out they have no authority to even enforce my employment contract. They can't recover the 1st check bc it's over 180 days from the claim, won't recover PTO bc it has…

And this is why no one wants to work…. I'm so sick of it.. I've been bait and switched at my current job and I hate it. I tried going for a different role recently and was persuaded into an entirely different roll. I HATE this new roll. It's not what they made it seem. Even had me lie to corporate by telling them I'm not doing extra work (entirely different job) when I'm not supposed. Also already hired my replacement so it's not like I can go back to what I was doing before. I'm so devastated and I'm beating myself up… I'm so full of regret right now. I don't even want to go back at all. Ugh! Has this ever happened to anyone else before?

This past weekend I was graced with a jury summons in my mail box. I’ve been summoned before, and was happy to take time unpaid away from my retail job at the time! I currently work full time in an office. Per the employee handbook, you cannot take time off unpaid until you have used all of your PTO to the negative balance allowed. PTO must be used for ANY and all absences, to get you to 40 hours per week, before time can be taken off unpaid. I asked if there were exclusions for jury duty. NOPE. So now I just have to hope really hard that I am not selected to serve on a jury, as I will be forfeiting the very minimal PTO I have and hours I have yet to earn! Yay!