Part time job. Yesterday I “trained” for 3 hours. Boss/owner was on the phone 3/4 of the time. I go in today and she gives me her personal physical therapy appointments to add to her calendar in Outlook. I entered them but I didn't send them to her. I believed since I'm adding to her calendar (I can see her other appointments) everything should be ok. Well I guess not because she yelled at me. “You have to get this right honey. Now you have to do rework which is wasting time”. Second day. While I'm updating her calendar I am also on the phone with IT support at GoDaddy getting voice recognition set up and running on 2 computers. She interrupts to chew the guy out for taking so long using the expletives “Fuck” as in this is fucking taking to long, and “What is this shit”, so on…
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How do I help?
I've been following this sub for a while (power to the people!) and I see a lot of viral and blatant abuses of power by employers. What do I do as an individual to help support laws and infrastructure that support change?
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I work at Trader Joe’s. Not a bad job they expect a lot for such shit salary. But recently they hired 4 new people and on top of that now instead of working 4 days I week I am only get 1 shift per week. They say it’s because sales are low so they are cutting hours but why hire new people then?. I’m fucking furious they know I live on my own and have expenses and cut my hours without telling me. What should I do?
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where’s the money
Wall Street made 31 billion dollars in profits in 2021 (https://www.osc.state.ny.us/press/releases/2021/10/dinapoli-wall-st-2021-profits-near-record-levels). During a raging pandemic. I thought the markets basically find price values within people buying and selling stock? I know retail isn’t spending money on the stock market , not that kind of money. I mean who runs Wall Street anyways. Could it be… they’ve rigged the system for their gain? All this money isn’t for public use. It’s private gain. Yachts and houses . Sports cars , fancy trips. Making a few people richer and richer. Isn’t the NYSE like the capitol of the economy? Huge importance yes? Lots of money flowing thru. How come the average person knows nothing about it and yet it runs so well. It’s almost like a private money club. And when these money club members do illegal things to make a lot of money? Oh they pay a small fine. And that…
I’ll keep details brief and sparse because a few of my coworkers browse Reddit so there’s a very good chance they’ll see this. Even though I’ve only been at my job a few months, I came to them with experience that not all my coworkers have, and even upper management has mentioned how much of an asset I’ve become in such a short amount of time. My hourly wage was recently increased, but this wasn’t a raise so much as them bumping up everyone’s pay to the same as what they are currently hiring at. I’ve recently been taking on a lot of extra tasks, so I worked up the nerve to request a meeting with my immediate supervisor. I told her that based on my experience alone I should already be making more than someone just starting out, and that all the extra work they’ve been having me do…
How long does it take a low-wage worker to save up $33K with exploding living costs? The man in this story seems to be upper-middle class, but just imagine if this had been an average working-class stiff. You work your butt off for your country, community, company. You take the hits to be a good citizen. But when an emergency happens you hear, “There's nothing we can do” from the Big (Wo)Man. God help you if you look poor or don't speak English “properly” or aren't a home-owner so local government doesn't give a d@mn about you. No wonder record numbers of people are opting out…
When your sent home early instead of working your full scheduled shift it is basically taking money out of said persons pocket. If I'm budgeting based on my hours/pay and I'm sent home two hours early once a week every week that's alot of money missing when bills roll around. Cutting someone for labor helps nobody, half a percentage of a point isn't gonna fix labor and only screws one person over. Two hours a week is the same as 104 hours at the end of the year. I'm just really tired of people acting as if it's ok and justified to send someone with bills to pay home.
