A list of jobs I have seen ADVERTISING pay equal to or below my state's minimum wage in the first 5 minutes I've searched on Indeed today (aka the vast minority of positions really offering minimum wage): “Looking for an applicant bilingual in english and cambodian.” The description asks for a candidate preferably fluent in spanish as well (for $14.50 an hour!!!!!! 50 cents less than minimum wage) “A minimum of 3 years of experience in [the same field], AS WELL as a degree in [related field]” ($15 an hour) Looking for a MINIMUM WAGE job in this 'worker's market' is really demotivating and disgusting. I thought I would have been lucky to be in a position where all I need is minimum wage and full time. Bullshit, even with 4 years of experience and tangible skills nobody is giving me the time of day because I don't have a…
Basically.. I don’t mind working, but I hate how broken working is lately. I don’t want to be treated like shit, I want to set my own schedule and work when I want and go home when I want, and be paid fairly and accordingly for the work I provide. There are careers I want but thanks to society I have to spend and arm and a leg on higher education to actually get paid to do those jobs (therapy/speech pathology/psychiatry) I need a job that won’t make me want to kill myself while I pursue the pointless bullshit degrees I need, or I need a way to have money without having to put up with a broken system. So what do I do? I believe in good honest work, but I also believe we shouldn’t force people into doing things they hate, or schedules that they hate. Just because…
Okay okay I know the phrasing is confusing but here’s the deal. I’m working full time at a place that only allows us to work there. No side gigs. With student loans I’m not making enough to live and I got offered the best side gig. I’d be polishing silverware and making roll ups at a restaurant my best friend works at. They said I could work one shift every weekend-as my full time is a M-F deal so it sounds like the perfect way to get extra money. (Well the perfect way that still requires work that is). My only hesitation is my full time job somehow finding out. Obviously I wouldn’t tell them and nobody I work with right now is my friend (not a bad thing-I just prefer not to be friends with coworkers in the setting of this job) so there’s no way they’d know by…
Our work days should not be so hyper-productive as to leave us this tired. When did this become the norm? It is not healthy to chronically be exhausted.
Yeah you read that right. A few months ago I was hired onto a renovation company as a lead carpenter. The day I started I discovered the other two employees had only been working there for a couple of months, a giant red flag when looking back. During my second day on the job my boss sent me a text making a big change to the framing that had already been installed which would require some more lumber that we didn’t have on site. His rule was that I had to let him know what I needed at the start of the day so he would only have to come by once, which was fair but in this situation I obviously had to tell him I wasn’t able to get to it that day because of the late text. He then called me and began to berate me over the…
