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I finally quit after months of contradiction and manipulation

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…

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The need for money makes us vulnerable

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.

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Age & Experience Requirements! – the never-ending chain

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Goldman Sachs’ CEO demanded all employees return full-time to the office. Only half showed up

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Our education system is a joke

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3mnth run around

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…

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Do 40-hour-a-week blue collar jobs that pay a living wage exist anymore?

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?

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This quote from Shameless echos the situation between the haves and have nots

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I was told I need “retraining” never told the reason why. One of my coworkers told me that my manager said that I need to be retrained on something but the manager never spoke to me about it nor I was given any explanation. They honestly sound like little mean high school girls and act a bit sus…

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Would you work off the clock for “just a few min” if your boss asked?

I know it’s a labor law violation, but I wanna know if I’m being petty or not for being upset by this? I make min wage, and when I’m asked to stay after for a few min once I’m clocked out, it’s to do someone else’s job. They usually make me do a small task or two every evening, so I’m usually working off the clock for 5 min each day. It adds up and it’s so disrespectful. I don’t need this job and I decided to leave the first week of April, but I’m so upset about this. I bring my frustration home with me frequently. This workplace has been nothing but toxic since day one. What would you say to your boss if they asked you to “stay for just a few min to do blank task?”