Hey all. I’ve been told a new salary/pay rate should begin right after you sign for a new position. I’ve been waiting over 2 months to begin my new position, and I’ve been told I should have been in the new salary even though I haven’t started my new role. And that I hound talk to HR about retro pay for the past 2 months. Is this true? Thanks!!
Perhaps this may not be the best sub to post this in given the title (I want an objective opinion), but here it goes anyway. I work retail in a summer tourist town (though its open all year). From the moment I was hired last summer to now, I have worked every single Saturday+Sunday apart from my wedding/honeymoon and Christmas. My partner got a new job and couldn't accommodate to my schedule anymore so I asked for at least one weekend day off every week. To my surprise, my boss gave me every weekend off for the entirety of May (probably because of all the summer student hires). The dilemma: my coworker decided last minute (2 weeks ago) that she is going on vacation this weekend. She was able to get others to cover every shift except Sunday. Now shes asking if I can cover Sunday because no one else…
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How should I go about quitting my job?
As the title suggests, I need some advice on how to quit my current job. They have been less than professional handling certain matters throughout my time working for them and I need a change. How should I go about letting them know I quit? Should I give them two weeks notice or not? Any advice/tips are greatly appreciated. My plan was to leave the keys at the job site in a secure location and text them that I wouldn’t be working for them again. I didn’t plan on giving two weeks because I’ve always been told that’s a courtesy rather than a necessary step.
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Asked to Come in to Clean?
I wasn’t sure where to post this so apologies if it is inappropriate. Burner bc I don’t want to out my workplace and I can’t decide if this is objectionable or not and if it is, what should I do? My business suffered a cyber attack so all of our networks have been down the past week and continue to be down. This means we cannot work at all. We don’t even have email or Zoom access. Leadership decided that they’d reopen the offices this week and required people come in and clean? We were all working remote until April 4th so we just came back anyway, with a good many of us having started during the pandemic and never went to the office until this month. It also seems weird when we have a full custodial staff? I wonder if our CEO is just obsessed with having us back…
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AITA for quitting my $10/h job?
I just feel a bit bad about it all. I had moved to another job from there to 15/h since I was perfectly content with my job, since I didn't need money or anything. But my Assistant Manager (AM) came one day to the store and she said she was crying because the Store Manager (SM) was always giving her an attitude and making her feel miserable. She said she was texting the SM about the store and the SM just said “stop texting me on my off days”, and so my AM came in for one last day just to tell us and to not just leave us stranded on the job. she just clocked in and smoked the whole time. it resulted in my other coworkers also quittin because that AM was truly so wonderful. i understood why my AM felt that way and I couldn't bear to…
Sorry, didn't know how to just link the video, but here's the original post. https://www.reddit.com/r/hatemyjob/comments/ug2j1w/how_things_actually_are_at_a_factory_and_remember/
So we all know capitalism sometimes makes us do things we aren't proud of in order to support ourselves and our families. So what's the most evil job you ever had, and are you still doing it? I'll go first. I'm a civil defense attorney, and I've defended some not-so-nice people. Not going into details, except to say I've helped people avoid paying for some pretty horrendous things that they've done. I tell myself it's ok because I spent the first 5 years of my career doing public interest work for a pittance. I'm trying to get out of litigation altogether because while the money is ok, the grind and stress are getting to be too much.
The article is in French, but here is a quick summary. Workers of the Lachine Amazon warehouse (in Montréal, Québec, Canada) are trying to get their coworkers to sign up to unionize, mainly for better wages, more respect towards workers and better treatment of work injuries. They want to use the momentum of what happened in New York. One worker's quote : “Lots of people quit because they injured their knees, their back. There is so much pressure. Managers treat us like robots, but politely. They tell us : “I love working with you, you are amazing”” Amazon allegedly sent bosses from Ottawa and Toronto to discourage workers from unionizing. Interesting fact : the only Walmart store that ever was unionized was in the province of Québec, in the city of Jonquières. Source : https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2022/05/02/des-employes-damazon-syndiques-au-quebec
I get up at 5am to go to my job from 7:30 to 4pm. It sucks and no matter how many hours I sleep in I still feel tired to wake up that early. Next time I want to take a afternoon shift or swing shift. Better than waking up early.