I work in a large department store in a big city. My job is customer service, which is on the bottom floor. When people want to do same day pickups, we have a “picking” team that comes in prior to the store opening at around 8 AM, and they leave at 3:30 PM.They have to collect, bag, and label the items that people want, and put them away in bins for me and my coworkers to give to customers later. This means that the picking team must fulfill every order after 3:30 PM from the day before– AND every order up to date until they leave again in the afternoon. Currently we are severely understaffed (because they raised a bunch of people's pay only to cut it significantly after a month or so for the holidays) so I've been taking shifts for people in the Women's department, Junior's department, Men's……
I know quitting some job at burger king isn't some big deal for most people but this is kind of special to me. The first thing to know is that I actually like my coworkers. I'd actually lay down my life for them because they're some of the kindest souls on the planet. but I'd only be saying that if it were still September. Since then over half of the original crew is gone and now we have people who I know mean well, but are not suited for the job frankly. One micromanages everything, one of them hasn't learned the basic sandwiches after over a month and the general manager cant utilize a budget, so we ended up running out of beef patties on a Friday night, and over $1000 in sales was down the drain that night. I mean its not like I took the grunt of that…
So I don't get why people complain about workers wanting a raise in minimum wage. From what I understand they seem to think a minimum wage increase would make everything else around us more expensive like gas, food, etc. Well minimum wage didn't increase that much and gas rose to 4 dollars a gallon. Prices were already increasing while workers were asking for a minimum wage increase. It's not like minimum wage workers are asking for a lot. There are those who want to work 6 figures to be able to afford a house/mansion and there are those who just want enough to be able to afford rent plus other essentials.
I see all your posts about quitting toxic workplaces (and I’m here for it ) but you could improve your chances for unemployment compensation if you do the following: Keep a log of any incidents with dates, times and witnesses Notify HR Cite these reasons in your resignation letter and keep a copy. Don’t screw yourself out of financial support until you find a better job.
This is happy story in my book. Two weeks ago, I turned in my resignation, effective this Friday. The new position is similar to a promotion that I had recently been denied because I refused to relocate. Heading to a seemingly friendly workplace at a big locally- based company with tons of room to move up, and a 21% pay increase. So I’m good. The management expressed interest in promoting my assistant to my current job, which I wholeheartedly supported. She has essentially been doing the same thing as me for over a year, for a lot less pay, has been with the company for a couple of years longer than me, and she is great. Truthfully she is more knowledgeable than me. She was concerned about getting a lowball offer, so she asked my pay and I shared it with her without hesitation. A similar position was posted in…
Hi everyone. Here is a script I have been using to avoid wasting my time with recruiters who are fishing for information. Most of them balk at the salary range question, one once refused to give me the job description. I am happy in my current position so I can afford to be picky. One recruiter gave me all the info and I determined it was not an opportunity I wanted to pursue, so it was great and I would listen to them again. A couple have gotten angry but whatever. Feel free to use this. ———- Hi xxx! Thank you for this exciting opportunity. So we do not waste anyone’s time, I have a standard set of questions I ask recruiters who cold contact me so I can judge if an opportunity is worth pursuing. Once you answer all of these, I can determine if this opportunity is something…
