I've spoken a little bit about this in some comments in the past but I've actually completed my time there so I figured now would be the best time to speak about it. I know a lot of us yearn to quit our awful jobs, but the lack of money and need to pay for rent and food often stop us. I want to preface this by saying that this is (probably) not a long term solution, nor is it a good idea for those supporting families, but it might be the kind of break that some of you single (or coupled!) folk can use. The program is called WWOOF, Worldwide Opportunities on Organic Farms, and the premise is simple: you work on a farm of your choosing, for the length of your choosing, and in return receive meals and housing. There are no monetary transactions, no contracts, and no…
Title pretty much sums it up; I worked as a Assistant Manager/Accounts Manager for this loan office for almost 9 months. I started at $12 an hour and for the last few months was pressing them about raises, and they wouldn't give anything certain (We've been discussing, working on it, etc.). Anyway, earlier this month was the last straw. I was told that occasionally (and they used that term very loosely) I would need to travel to cover other loan office branches as needed. I had up to that point, covered every branch they asked me to cover (some being over 100 miles away) and was asked to cover a branch for just a day (this one was closer to 70 miles away) I said sure, since I figured it would be reflected that I never turned down a request. Well, “just today” turned into 3 days of me driving…
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Yep, here’s the secret
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I’m getting pretty good at this
Felt like this belonged here. The culture of corporate treatment of parental leave in the US is disgusting. Leading up to the scheduled FMLA they constantly assured her of job security. They had her on a really nice insurance plan and 6 weeks paid leave. It just seems so fucked they would pull the rug out from under her days before they knew she would go into labor. They celebrated our child to be as a “company baby” and even threw her a virtual baby shower. The whole job is remote. It feels like a betrayal- she worked hard and the company CEO is a billionaire. They blame the lay off on company expense and financial cuts but it seems designed around her pregnancy due to her excellence at work. I guess we’re just exasperated and tired. I’m a struggling small business owner too and we both just find that…
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And I ooop
I’m a reporter at Vox working on a story a story on the ways work hasn’t changed. Basically, we’re positing the question of what if the future of work is still same (and is still terrible) or worse? We’d love to hear stories from people whose jobs haven’t really changed much over the past couple of years. Maybe you’re still having to go in, your workload is the same or worse, you keep seeing all of these future of work stories and feel like they don’t apply to your experience. We’re looking mainly for workers in the US, but open to chatting with anyone. DMs are open, or shoot me an email at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
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I feel bad for the managers at my job
I work part-time at a franchise-owned Dunkin' Donuts in my city. (For those unfamiliar, it's basically a fast-food coffee/pastry shop) and the managers here are overworked to the MAX. I'm on my third week there and since then about 6 people quit, which basically cut our staff in half because we were already short-staffed. Luckily since I have a second job (and they don't want the trouble of putting me on full-time hours, nor do I) they're not trying to make me work overtime. But the managers are. One of my managers told me she's worked doubles and not had a day off since the 9th of this month. They wouldn't admit it (I think most of them are conservatives) but I bet they'd be retaining workers if they fucking paid us more than $10 an hour and they don't have to make their managers suffer to pick up the…