Tell me why I’m wrong. I genuinely think employers should pay you for your commute as well with basing it off of the average time it takes from your house to work. If it takes 30 minutes it says on GPS to get to there, they should pay you that time it took to get there since considerably you’re putting constant wear on your car, and paying for gas to get there.
For clarification, I will not name the school I worked at. My wife is currently employed there. A few years ago, I was laid off at my job. I was a payroll specialist. In need of employment, I applied at the private school. My wife was already on staff, but had only been there two years and she put in a good word for me. I interviewed and requested a salary of $40K per year(previous was $45K). They were only offering $30K and after a bit of back and forth, the best they could do was $33K. It was a decent job, not too stressful. I had been there for around 6 months or so when I'm leaving for the day, my truck decides to not start. Here I am, hood open trying to figure out what's wrong when the president of the school drives on by on his golf…
When looking at other jobs online, does anybody else just become super depressed about the options? I live in a small town USA about 40 mins away from a large city. Looking online at jobs posting either it be Linkedin, Indeed, or Glassdoor all the jobs are awful the only thing I see is $11-$17 an hour. Majority of the time the jobs that pay $18-$20 per hour are night shift warehouse jobs. All these jobs are warehouse, production, fast food or truck driving. That’s literally it. Where are the unique and interesting jobs? Good paying with good benefits? Looking at job postings feels like a desolate hell where my dreams die. Where do people get high paying jobs? I feel like there’s a black market for jobs where people access and get the good jobs leaving all the surface garbage for Indeed.
Been hunting for a while. Had to turn down a job that head hunted me for a local union pipefitter job. Starts at little less hourly but the benefits and monetary growth outweighs the head hunters. Anyway gave the shitty place i was at a peice of my mind and a 2day notice, im leaving today suckers. Names and company names have been changed obviously. All, Effective immediately, I quit. To some of you this may come as a surprise. Others may be saying “good god ,finally”. As you all should know, 2021 ended with an average of 6.8% for our national inflation rate. It also ended with an average of 3.5 Million workers quitting their jobs per month. These two facts alone created my assumption that employee retention would be toward the top of redacted priority list, if not the number one priority. My assumption was wrong. I received…
I had worked for a locally owned and operated company who specialized in flow art gear (space whips, poi sets, diffraction glasses, etc. your basic rave and EDM community items) for about 3 years. I had worked up from a basic production worker to a supervisor over the entire production department. Flash toward to about 1 1/2 years ago and the company got sold to a venture capitalist out of Texas (about 1000+ miles away) and in that span of horrible decisions (his goal was/is to take down Amazon) he managed to alienate all the old employees even board members who all left within 6 months and brought in his own people who turned a really good company that valued employees and customers equally and who’s goal was to be the industry-leader in flow arts into another generic mass production company that went from focusing on flow arts to chasing…
