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Anyone else find it deceptive when a company advertises a job at a certain pay rate and then it turns out the pay is factoring in the “tips” you’ll supposedly make?

A friend of mine recently went to an interview for a cashier job that was advertised for $18 an hour. Once they went to the interview, they were told the rate of pay is actually $13 an hour but everyone is expected to make “at least $5 an hour in (pooled) tips.” The location they applied at isn’t even open yet and all the other locations are out of state so I feel it’s pretty deceptive to advertise a job this way. I’ve been out of customer service/restaurants for years but when I was working in that business, the tips I made were never as much they claimed I’d receive in the interview.

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I aspire to be like my ex-coworker

Not sure if I can really call him that but I am a cashier at a store for 12/hr and he quit after his first day because he stated that the wages weren’t worth the job and the store was messy (in terms of socially) since an older coworker lady told him to stay away from another coworker because she doesn’t like her and didn’t know that the girl she was talking about was literally his friend prior to him having the job. It’s been 3 months for me so far and I’m desperately looking for a way out (aka a better job) but I respect his tact in immediately leaving at the first few red flags presented

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ah yes starting wage of $8 but nobody wants to work for us

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make that a Paid Vacation, and it would be ABSOLUTELY PERFECT

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Will Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) make a comeback if the new COVID wave gets really bad this winter?

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what’s a fair amount

I know someone who is self employed but they want to hire him to be part of the team he is currently on £23.18 an hour but to go on the card with the company they have offered him £18.50 is this a fair deal the only difference will be holiday pay and pension

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Not lazy, but at the end of my rope

I don't post to Reddit a lot, mostly I just comment and lurk, but I just need to vent. I've been struggling with something between depression and bipolar disorder for most of my life now (not self-diagnosing, I've been to several psychiatric hospitals and different doctors have told me different things), to the point where it's been hard for me to keep jobs at times. Two years ago, almost to the day, a close friend of mine died, and I've been in a massive funk since. I left a job at a group home I'd held for 6 years, went through a period of incredible mental instability, ended up in another hospital, and eventually moved from my home state to Fort Hood TX to live with my cousin's family on a military base rent-free, because of being unable to continue to pay rent where I was, and feeling incredibly distressed…

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Working as a bagger in retail makes me fucking hate people.

Title.

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still traumatized six months after leaving a toxic team and manager passing away

TW: terminal illness, mental health Left this team after 3 years there end of 2021. I’m so happy I found a new role in a different team at the same company (they pay for my graduate school, can’t leave unless I wanna be on the hook for grad school debt). However, I can’t help that if things are so much better, is it ok I’m still feeling some effects of trauma from the last team? In my last team, there were MANY red flags. But the biggest thing that crushed me was my supervisor passing away from almost a year long battle with cancer. He worked for 9 months after his diagnosis before taking medical leave, then passed away almost a month and a half after that. He essentially worked till almost the very end. We fell into that trap where the six of us (four team members, supervisor, and…

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My employer found a loophole to get out of paying time and a half for overtime hours, what do you guys think about this?

So I work for a couple who owns several businesses and operates them all from the same office. They’re all very similar, but have different LLCs. I work in the accounting and HR department for all the businesses. I do not have access to payroll as that is someone else’s job. I am paid hourly. Recently, they asked me to start working late and working on Saturdays. Well, when I got my paycheck I noticed I wasn’t paid time and a half for the hours worked over 40. I asked and they said they don’t pay office staff time and a half since we work for all the businesses. They told me: “technically you work for all the businesses so it’s a couple hours for this one, a couple hours for that one, and so on per week. You never worked over 40 hours for one of the businesses.” I…