I work for a large library system in Canada as a Public Service Assistant (I'm those people behind the front desk who help you find that book about dinosaurs you've been wanting to read). I was working the front desk today when my Supervisor (one tier right below the Branch Head) pulled me into the staff workroom. Supervisor is in charge of making sure all our staffing hours work with each other (no gaps in the staffing schedule, etc.), then Branch Head signs off on it. Supervisor mentioned that Branch Head scheduled me to work extra hours from 12:30 to 8:30 on the 13th. Supervisor: “Did she ask you to work these hours?” Me: “No, she never asked if I could work those hours.” “Are you able to work those hours?” “No, sorry, I won't be able to.” “Oh okay, I will remove where it says you will work extra…
Tipping is horrible for employees in most cases and is generally a stupid and oppressive idea special to the US https://www.eater.com/a/case-against-tipping DoorDash is a particularly aggressive with their tipping using it to subsidize the workers so they can justify not paying them a decent wage, and DoorDash was even caught stealing those tips https://www.classlawgroup.com/doordash-stole-drivers-to-mount-a-30-million-campaign-to-crush-workers-rights/ It's a tough situation they put a user in: – Do I not tip and hope to force DoorDash to pay their employees a livable wage for their work? Downside is that the driver gets shafted in the short term. OR – Do I tip DoorDash's recommended tip so that the driver gets paid a decent amount, but DoorDash is allowed to continue this nasty practice. The dumbest part is your forced to choose the tip before the service is rendered! Zero logic to this scam. And further, they're just gunna batch up my order with…
I work for a well known and lucrative company. A cram school.So I know they have money. But they are constantly using the “corona” excuse not to give employees certain benefits Some examples 1. we have to bring our own soap and toilet paper for the bathroom. The one that in the bathroom is for the clients/students only. 2. No matter the weather we can’t use the heat or air unless a client is in the room 3. No charging your phones but the client have a charging area in the waiting room 4. I have to buy supplies FROM the school. They will no longer provide markers, crayons etc Anyway, a coworker returned back to their home country last month. So I’ve been working overtime teaching extra classes. Today my boss said that she appreciated my hard work and asked if I could work two hours more a day…
I work at a trader joes where I was first hired at $13, had to fight to get $15. And now people are starting at $16. I'm training people who make a dollar more than me. My boyfriend has been working here a year longer than ME and he makes less than I do. The veterans here are also severely underpaid as well. I want to talk to my managers but I don't know where to start. I need some key words/anything that would help fluff my conversation. This is fucking serious and I want to be the change for this company. When chicago made the minimum wage $15, shouldn't those veterans have been compensated/ had a wage change as well since they were fired at probably 8 dollars an hour? Anyway, anything will help, let's change this bullshit together. Thanks!
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Who moved my cheese?
I've been a good boy, the best infact of a large group and need ambiguity for now. Second largest company in the industry USA, and a hot topic economy issue that had an immense covid bailout, all over the news. I designed essentially eyes for a neglected portion of the business, then ran a shock and awe campaign on customers with an upcoming merger in mind. I'm clearly over qualified but humble. When the boss approached for my annual recently, I was offered to steal raise % points from other coworkers, but was told there's a new role coming, I got it and the % won't matter. So I was relieved and overjoyed. The promotion was handed to someone who's been sitting there doing nothing for years. I and my unofficial team are being treated like second class citizens now and have been told without saying, sink or swim without…
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Love the rules against sitting at work
I work at a chain music store that isn’t guitar center, and they’re getting on me for sitting during my shift when customers aren’t in the store… after getting a knee injury a week and a half ago. “I have RA so I understand” the manager says, as if that’s the same thing. They said if they see me sitting when they check the cameras on Monday it’ll be a problem, but who cares, for minimum wage I’m putting my health first.
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My manager is trying to guilt me to stay
A little bit of a rant, sorry if this doesn’t really make any sense I’m upset Im 16 and this is my first job. Honestly I only started this job because my mom wanted me to work there and I needed money. It’s a small local specialty food place btw. I’ve only been working there for like 6-7 months and in those months: – 6 employees quit – 2 got fired – I tried to quit once but got guilted into staying one day Plus the customers are so rude (elderly customers and entitlement don’t mix), and if I need something refilled or if I need to see if we have more of something I can never find any of the people who are supposed to do that (I can’t do it myself because cashiers aren’t taught where everything is in storage) I tried to quit and had my coworkers,…
To summarize, Americans and their brains are preoccupied with work much of the time. Throughout history people have intuited that such puritanical devotion to perpetual busyness does not in fact translate to greater productivity and is not particularly healthy. What if the brain requires substantial downtime to remain industrious and generate its most innovative ideas? “Idleness is not just a vacation, an indulgence or a vice; it is as indispensable to the brain as vitamin D is to the body, and deprived of it we suffer a mental affliction as disfiguring as rickets,” essayist Tim Kreider wrote in The New York Times. “The space and quiet that idleness provides is a necessary condition for standing back from life and seeing it whole, for making unexpected connections and waiting for the wild summer lightning strikes of inspiration—it is, paradoxically, necessary to getting any work done.”