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An essay Minimum wage/Maximum wage in relation to GDP.

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Interesting take on the rising gas prices

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Working hours error on paystub 3 times in a row

Working hours error on paystub three times in a row I’m kinda stressing out about this since this has happened three times in a row. I’m doing part time only and there’s the clock in/out system and I know the hours I worked but I always come off 2 hours or something short, and now, I am more than 5 hours short. I’ve told my manager the issues and has mentioned he’ll look into it. The 2nd time, he told me my pay will be getting fixed but it doesn’t seem fixed at all. How common are having errors on the paystub cause i’ve never experienced this until it first started last month?

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Lansing Michigan Starbucks

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Is it possible to find low effort work from home jobs at entry level?

With so many people working from home these days, I'm disappointed by the lack of remote options for entry level. I am 28 and would love to be able to work from home. But I don't want one where I'm constantly busy for 8 hours. I know some companies put tracking software on their employees computers and to me this is a huge red flag. I see other redditors comment how little work they do while working remotely. They will say: “I only do 3 hours of work and get paid for 8. Then I sit around and play video games and watch Netflix rest of the day.” To me, it would seem like a dream job to be able to do that. I currently work as a security guard and my job is pretty low effort. I do about 40 minutes of walking or real work during a 8…

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I’m just an intern

I'm never actually given time off the clock, unless I make my own time, by working faster, to read up on background knowledge that is actually important. I'm only weeks in and Death by PowerPoint is really showing itself because I'm the hand by which those decks are made, but you will never know of it. I'm seriously wondering about the differences between an intern and an assistant. I don't know about you, but having to borderline order full time staff around is really alarming to me. I'm really sick of my hourly rate hovering between $5 and $8 when everything you can't/won't/don't want to get to, is quasi my responsibility because there's only so many warm bodies to go around. I've been doing real work with no real pay for way too long now and it's starting to get to me.

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Currently sitting outside my store

I’m a training manager at a very popular Tex mex fast food chain. I’m training to become a certified manager on duty. The training shifts are opening shifts. I was scheduled today to open with another recently trained manager. They did not show up. I have no way into my building. Called a separate crew member to bring some keys to get me in but that person is off. So now I’m 30 minutes behind opening schedule, short staffed, and I’m still training. I have about a week to perfect this manager thing or my pay drops $5 an hour. I came in as an external since I had experience prior to this job. In fact this job offered me the position after only coming in for a w-2. If your breakfast burritos come out a little late today guys, I’m sorry

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Dropping my tiny 5 year old off to learn how to obey

One day you'll be taking your tiny 5 year old kids to school to be watched by strangers all day. If you don't take them everyday 5 days a week they will come and threaten to take your kids. The system is designed so you make as little as possible. You have to work so much you can't spend more time with your kids and you do whatever they say because you're too tired to fight. You're just trying to stay alive. And while your children are in school, what they're really learning is how to do what the people in charge say. To not talk unless they say. To sit and work all day. Stay in line. Take breaks when they say. Go to the restroom when they say. Sit where they say. To take home work, so you’re never really free. All so your little baby can grow…

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My company went bankrupt 3 months after I left

So this happened pre-covid. I worked for an educational institute for international students. The owners of the school inherited a lot of money and had a number of businesses and this school was not really their top priority. So as the young manager I had freedom to do what I wanted as if I owned the place. We started with a dozen students but as time progressed we started getting bigger and bigger. We were able to build a team with fantastic teachers and created courses no other school had. The other businesses of the owners started failing and this school became their only profitable project. I was getting a lot of pressure to keep increasing profits to fund their other projects. Mind you I was on a 50k managers salary while they had just bought a $13 million house. While there are a lot of dodgy schools, I was…

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I picked up some shifts at my old workplace and now I regret it.

I’ve been a stay at home Mom now since the first lockdown in 2020. To help my husband with bills and for extra cash I have been working an AWESOME catering gig 3-4 days a month since august of last year but it’s now the “slow season” for catering events. Since I’m not scheduled to work another event there until April 30th, I thought maybe I should see if I could pick up 1-2 shifts a week at the old dive bar I bartended at pre-covid. I thought about applying somewhere better but the thought of going through the new-hire process at some new place just sucks. I’m not a big fan of this bar, the customers aren’t very nice and there’s a lot of drug use in the bathrooms and back patio. I had to kick some idiots out at least once a week when used to work there.…