Category: Antiwork

So, I think this is the right place to ask this. Basically, the company I work for expects us to come in and be clocked in 15 minutes before your shift (while not paying until your shift officially starts, even if you are clicked in and working), and also rounds up/down depending on which is closer by fifteen minutes when clocking out. I’m in the USA. Is this legal? I try to be a model employee in every other way, and often stay much later than my official workday, but this bothers me a lot. How would you guys address this? For the record, I typically clock in a few minutes before before I would be officially late, 15 minutes after the official start of my shift, which probably isn’t the best option either, but it beats working without getting paid, right?

So to keep anonymity, let’s call this place CH (coffee hut). Skin case anyone doesn’t know what a coffee hut is….it’s a small drive through cafe where you serve out a window and no customers enter, typically small and fits about 2-3 people during shifts. With that being said you make decent money with tips so I decided to get a job there cause the hours were flexible and since I’m in school it should have worked out great. That’s where I messed up. Within my first week of working they asked me to work a solo shift overnight, alone. I was hesitant but I knew the money was good so I said sure, the shift went fine and I was glad to never do it again. Nope. They continuously asked me to work that shift and finally I said that I don’t feel comfortable with that shift and wanted…

So I work in the pizza delivery scene, my manager puts up a list of the average delivery times for all of our drivers every month (though there’s been times where they don’t update it until way later, but I still hear about it every month) and I’ve been at the bottom for about 3 months, and not even by a big margin. I’ve been having issues with my car as well as taking some of the longer deliveries it seems every damn day. Christmas Eve I had went out to my car to head to work and found that someone or something had busted my front passenger window. I made a claim with my insurance company and they still haven’t gotten back to me about covering it at all. While it’s been busted I’ve had to put packaging tape over my window to continue making money for rent and…