Category: Antiwork
A little bit of background. I got to the USA, 7 years ago. I’ve hold all kind of jobs, from a retail store to a warehouse, 10+ different jobs and positions just looking for the right thing for me. All of them in a big metro area in the PNW and all of them with a disproportionated amount of white people managing. It’s very easy to see the contrast, all none managing positions have a strong ratio of non whites in them, and some companies have quotas to fill, but as soon as you climb the hierarchy ladder you can see that the positions in charge of policy making are occupied almost entirely by white people, I’ve seen this over and over again in each job I’ve held. Can anyone explain?
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Clinical interview
TIL at a now defunct Portland Oregon restaurant, Poor Richard's, Hal, the owner had a clinical psychologist do the job interviews. Most employees had decades of service. I probably would not have interviewed had this been the case I found this article and I'll add the following quote from it. When she applied to wait tables in 1973, Jolene Heermann interviewed with a clinical psychologist Hulburt used to screen potential employees. The psychologist recommended against hiring her. “He told Hal that I was a bad risk,” Heermann recalled. “But Hal hired me anyway.” https://www.oregonlive.com/dining/2011/06/two-fer_the_road_a_longer_look.html
So my boss is trying to hire a new person and we are a small location. He is doing everything in him power to get me out of the place and off pay role while keeping me in the company. Today he said that corporate doesn't have the budget to hire a new person and keep me on the pay role. The new person based on their position would be paid hire then me understandingly since their role would be manager position and taking on more responsibility. He told me today that he was talking to corporate about having or changing the budget to keep me and hire this new person but also mentioned there might be a chance to become a traveling person for my company. So I'm wondering after of course doing my own dudilegence and considering all the options and seeing if there is potential for a…
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Should I do the interview?
There's a business nearby where I live who contacted me about having an interview. However, they wouldn't hold my interview at that site. They would hold it at one of their other sites that happens to be around an hour away from me. I said that before anything I had a couple questions I'd like to ask. In the job posting it said that we would work holidays plus have mandatory overtime 'as necessary'. I asked what holidays we would have to work plus if the overtime had a set schedule. The person I was talking with (someone from staffing) said they don't have the information I was looking for but that I'd be able to get answers during my interview. Is it worth it to hold the interview? The answers to these questions make or break the position for me. I don't want to drive all that way, sit…
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Do I have any leg at all to stand on?
I have complained in here before about my job; bonuses, inter-office bullshit, etc. But I am so close to quitting right now and I'm in tears… I have worked at my current job for over 3 years now and I'm hourly… Also I live in NV. I went on the labor commissioner website to view laws on a certain topic and then I found the following info also. Anyhow here is my gripe #1: In 2020 Nevada labor says that employees are to accrue 0.001923/hour worked for paid time off. Having said that, I haven't EVER been given any type of paid time off when I have had to call in for being sick (including a week when I had Covid) – my checks were always docked for missing work and there isn't any type of accounting of any type of accrual; in fact it's like that law doesn't exist…
Or what’s makes you a great fit? If an application requires me to fill that out, then I just exit out of the entire application and forget about it. These are questions I’d happily answer during an actual interview, not filling out an application.