When my grandmother passed, I attempted to take leave but it blew up in my face. The night before my first day of leave, I notified everyone I thought I needed to notify. I informed everyone that I would have to travel and help with funeral arrangements and I wouldn’t know when I would return until after we set a date for the funeral. My hope was to take the week off using my three allotted bereavement days plus two sick days. However, I was also aware that there was a chance the funeral wouldn’t take place until the week after so everything was very up in the air. I let everyone know that I would be checking my email when I could in case anything urgent was needed from me. I was stupid enough to think that people would show some level of respect and restraint though and just…
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Drug Testing Should Be Abolished.
If weren’t legal marijuana, this pandemic would have driven me more insane.
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Every Major Employer Should Do This
First, a disclaimer: Yes, I am an attorney but I am not your attorney so NONE of this is legal advice. In fact, NOTHING I say on reddit will ever be legal advice. If you need an attorney please contact your state bar association for a referral. Pay Secrecy refers to the practice many employers use to prevent employees from talking about their wages. Employers cannot forbid employees from talking about their wages because this activity is protected concerted activity under the NLRA. Fun fact: Concerted Activity is the only right all employees have under the NLRA regardless of whether they are in a union. Any retaliation based on protected activity is also illegal and actionable. Retaliation is any adverse employment action such as a verbal warning, a written warning, a demotion, etc. You should always report illegal activity! “If you don't use your rights, you lose them” and this…
Most jobs on posting boards tend to be heavy labor, driving, factory, or something soul less and obnoxious. Why I can't do labor anymore is I have horrendous injuries on my spine, so I seek desk work. As I look around everything asks for a 3 yr degree for some obscure shit if you want a desk job. It's a huge bonus if I don't talk to people and just straight up work the whole time til I'm off, had horrible past experiences with customer service especially phones trying to stray from all that. Beforehand was in construction a long time and that burnt my injuries out for little to no difference in compensation over time nor bonuses or room to advance. It's like what in the fuck are you supposed to be Either be Elon Musk or a peasant? Like what the fuck Where's the in-between normal desk work…
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Base Wage Increase Woes
I work at a relatively small, private, manufacturing place in plastics, 60-80 workers – closer towards 80. I work part time. I've been going to school in a completely different field but stayed here because my department head is so so so flexible. Ill plan out my semester, print out a copy and give it to him and I'll work it. HOWEVER: I've been getting 3-5% raises every year but barely keep up with company minimum wage. I got a raise to $10/hr, the company min wage got raised to 12. I lose all benefits of those past years and new hires are paid the same if not more and I have to answer their questions when I'm working. I got a considerable annual raise of 5% but my boss says I'm considerably underpaid with my improvement. I then turned 21 so I could enroll in 401k benefits. The company…
He give stupid orders to issue warning letter on verbal instructions and later on say employees that he has done on his own accord. Now on me sending emails, he is not calling me to meetings and transferring me to Admin department. What to do?
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Rude/terrible job interviews
I'll start… Back in 2014 i was in between jobs and needed rent money i was applying to basic places i.e foor resturants and retailers. Well i got a interview from a local game stop shop, all was normal until she asked a basic question that i will never forget. The queation was simple for a video game retailer, the question was “what game are you most looking forward to in the next year?” Now at the time a fallout 4 was announced and was well along the way (probably no more than 3 months from release). I told them just that, i was hyped for fallout 4 how i love the series and completely nerded out. The interviewer let me speak my piece and really let roll with it to really show my compassion, after everything was said and done she took a few seconds pause turned back to…
Super shot notice. I think I finally hit the point I will carry through with this. I'm a coward at heart so who knows if I will. I'll update the thread with what I did by 4PM EST 2/10/21 or sooner ————– [Manager name] I really am sorry about this, but I joined [CEO's] live chat and confronted him about the IT layoffs. Truely, I don't believe you had any notice or advanced knowledge about this, and I hold no ill will against you about this. I seriously hope this doesn't blow back on you, and I accept any consequence and discipline I receive for my actions, including termination of my employment. This may be over dramatic, I won't deny, but I felt the need to do this as a representation of who I am and want to be. I won't pretend I was on perfect relations with all the…
