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Venting About My Boss; or: Why Give Me Sick Days If I’m Not Supposed To Use Them?

I work as an hourly drone in the paint department at a big box hardware chain, and my supervisor is, basically, a giant douchebag. He's aggressively unpleasant and hypercritical all the time, to the point where I've just given up trying to please him. I know that no matter what I do it will be the wrong thing and he'll give me shit for it. Even worse, he has the very unnerving habit of disappearing for hours and then suddenly reappearing right behind me the moment I do something he disapproves of. I've seen him behave similarly to other coworkers but not to the same extent or the same extremes as he does with me. On the 11th a customer asked me to identify a fire alarm she had brought with her. I couldn't because I know nothing of either fire nor alarms and directed her to the electrical department,…

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Advice on staff paying for ‘profit loss’

Gonna keep this vague while I work out the general stance on this issue I work at a bar in the UK where my barstaff are paid minimum wage (I am a supervisor and get an additional £1 an hour) We've been told that when cash up comes in under (less in the tills than we should be) that the bar staff who worked that day have to pay for it Personally I believe minimum wage staff being charged means they're either not getting minimum wage or they're having their tips taken. Both are illegal as far as I'm aware. I also do the cash up myself every night and know for a fact the losses are less than 1% of the take for the day. Am I right in thinking this is illegal or am I at least right in not wanting to work for this company any longer?

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Question about this sub

I’m prolly gonna get downvoted first this but I’m just wondering what the point of this sub is? What is it accomplishing? All I’ve seen is (rightful) bitching at employers and I guess I just don’t understand…. So what IS antiwork?

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Requiring Government workers to get vaccinations (because they’re free) but not paying a livable wage to afford healthcare. Home of the brave. Thanks.

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Company overlooked experience due to hiring policies

I had a great job that I really enjoyed. It was pretty low pay, but it was literally 50 applicants per position. I got in as a college internship. I got paid like $600 a month, but I got free housing, and per diem for days worked my first year. It was what it was. I was young and didn’t have many expenses. Then I was hired on as a seasonal employee for the next 5 seasons, (basically April through September). I started at $13.49 and made my way up to $15. It was a grind, but I loved the work, and I got really good at it. There were permanent positions, but they were very limited, and you either had to wait until somebody retired, or move to a completely different location. My 5th year there, 6th if you include my college internship ( I received a bachelors degree…

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Clearly valued employee

Managment told us we would be running a contest to see who could sell the most protection plans on furniture and electronics item with the top 2 employees winning “expensive” grand prizes. I should mention that these plans, which we have no incentive to sell we recieve no extra compensation or any sort of commission for these often hundreds of dollar sales with the plans just being pushed as they are one of the companys easiest money makers. Got stupidly excited hoping i could impress the store managers by being top place despite being the newest employee in the store. Worked harder than normal and to be honest harder than i should for the wage i am paid, and came in second me a new employee sold the second most number of plans.How did my gracious company, whom i single handidly just made thousands of dollars, show appreciation for the…

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Gaps in your resume? Lie.

The best way to answer questions about gaps in your resume is to lie, and lie big. “I was backpacking through eastern Europe working as a freelance blacksmith and studying local farm culture.” “Oh that year I was living with the Pygmies in New Guinea filming an amateur documentary about tribal water wells.” The bigger the lie, the more it sounds like the gaps were important self-work being done. This theory is based on absolutely nothing.

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The (very) 80’s video that haunted/warned me as a kid about the employment industry

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Tim Hortons asking for written notice

Hey guys, A friend a mine works part time at a Tim Hortons in British Columbia and is leaving due to the shitty management. Her manager asked her to provide a written notice a month before leaving. Is this compulsory? Any tips?

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Rather than my work paying us correctly, or remotely on time – our boss’s solution is take out ‘payday loans’