Category: Antiwork

I work for a company with an online shop. Now while shopping on our website I found a loophole on their system that ,let's just say, would let a customer save alot of money. Of course this is unintentional. Now I took advantage of this multiple times to get some good stuff for myself. Now the company found out about this stuff and it's discovery traces back to me, for some reason. Now… if I come to work and they start asking me questions like “if you found out why didn't you report it earlier?” What's the best neutral way to answer that question?

Welp this year marks my 7th year with this company. I have only work for this company and I'm turning 25 years old in August. I work in a parks department for a giant city, when I first started out I worked in a recreational complex for softball/baseball & football. I did all the groundskeeping with my superior. This continued on till I was hired as a full time maintenance worker in 2018 at a different sports complex. My boss from 2018-2019 (jon doe) was a complete dick. I did all of the shit work he didn't want to do. He eventually quit and went back to school. End of 2019- early 2020 i took care of this place by myself. It was very rewarding but all of the older gentlemen told me to be careful and not get stuck there. They told me a story about the previous caretaker…

My company just started a new policy where there will be a mandatory 1/2 hour unpaid lunch on weekend overtime shifts, if you work more than 6 hours. I live in CT and the state laws say any hours over 40 per week must be paid in overtime pay, and a lunch is only required if you work more than 7.5 hours. Shouldn't they then by law not be allowed to force an unpaid lunch if you only work 6.5 or 7 hours overtime? Also, I work an overnight shift where you work 6.5 hours and get paid for 8, as a bonus for working the overnights. Would you think the state law would look at the 6.5 hours actually worked, or the 8 hours compensated for when taking into account the requirement of a lunch after 7.5 hours?

So I recently got essentially laid off and I qualify for unemployment payments while I look for another job. While filling out claim, I mention I was only looking for work on 3rd shift. Apparently in my state of Maine it is law that I have to be seeking work for any shift. Unaware of this at my time of completing the claim. I get a call and they basically called to tell me that my my claim denied and yes I could appeal. Question for yous people is this: if I resubmitted my claim with the open availability could there be legal precedent to look into if I am lying, which I wouldn’t be. Or should I just appeal and say that I have open availability now? Thanks for the advice

Been working for a chemical company for 2 years now in the lab. I’m the only person in the lab with a degree and experience and I was told when I got hired I would be promoted within a year or so because someone else was retiring. Of course they didn’t retire and I’ve been just stuck in an entry level position ever since. In December my lab manager moved to a different company and he had let me know and started training me to take over for him when he left. But the higher ups didn’t want to make me manager so that opportunity disappeared as well. I recently interviewed at another lab that is now offering me a $3.50 per hour raise but again it’s an entry level position and the drive is much longer so gas gets pretty expensive. Their lab also isn’t nearly as nice it’s…

I seen a flyer around my college campus about a job for $20 an hour. I decided to apply since i had nothing better to do. The flyer was really vague and i didn’t know what the job was at all, it was said $20, looking for students, no experience needed! It seemed perfect, then i found out it was a sales person job. I though that wasn’t horrible but then during the interview they said we would need our own contacts preferably family. that threw me off. after the interview they hired me. I went to indeed and seen a lot of people are warning other to stay away. A lot of them said they will make you harass every single person in your family. People have also said that the company has taken there contacts and speaks to there family about the job! I’m suppose to be training…

She got a new job offer (within the same corporation affiliates). She will be making bit more than double of what she’s making. But they are asking her to be available everyday including weekends . She’s already making more in a year than what my sister (her mom) made in all her life. She told me she’s not taking the job because she doesn’t want to work more than 35 hours a week. I am so proud of her!!!

Short rant. So my state essentially has no workers rights. Employers are only required a (at least) 30 minute paid meal break after 5 hours. We had two 15 minute breaks when we work 10hr days but we went down to 9 hours and my boss basically said we can't afford breaks since we're behind. I just hate this job and this state.