Antiwork

I was so relieved sending that resignation email. I hate that it took me so long to do it. I work at a small county emergency dispatch center. They have lost 4 out of 8 full time employees in 1.5 months. For clarity I have 2 bosses. The head of dispatch and the supervisor. The supervisor is in charge of making the schedule. Shift A works Sunday-Tuesday . Shift B works Wednesday-Friday. We get alternating Saturdays off. 12 hours shifts. All our extra hours worked goes into comp time until we recently got overtime pay. These are just a few things that have happened over the last year and management just seems to be getting worse. • My supervisor doesn’t pick up any shifts. For 3 months they took off every Saturday they were scheduled. • Supervisor forgetting the 1 time they filled in a shift, showing up 4 hours…

If we are in need of something, like being a kid and the need of a caretaker, we open up ourself for all kinds of mistreatments. Now we are older, but we still need money to survive which makes our boss/bosses our new caretaker. They have the power over you like patents. Give people power and they will misuse it. I dont have a solution, because we are not free in any sense, but we share the same struggle.

I applied to a job with a $600 sign on bonus. Spoke with the recruiter about it. Did orientation and spoke about it with the school director. 1st school director quit and a new one came in. New school director also said I can be expecting the bonus. She sent out an email saying we'll recieve half the bonus once we finish some tasks and complete a certain amount of hours for training, and the other half after 90days. I finished training a month ago. Payday was today. Yesterday I asked if half the bonus will be on this paycheck and she said she'll find out for me. She gets back to me and says I'm actually not qualified for it because the bonus offer expired just before I was hired. I signed a non compete contract for this job. Is there any way I can get out of it…

I'm a Process Technician with an automotive supplier. I make a liveable wage but we are underpaid for the amount of work and responsibility we have. But that's not the worst part. I've been there ten years and have missed out on a heartbreaking amount of my children's lives due to the insane amount of overtime I've been required to work. I don't think my situation is unique and am starting to believe that the price of making a blue collar living wage in the US is mandatory overtime. Thoughts?