I live in the Seattle area and wages for too damn low (they’ve barely gone up in the 13 years I’ve been here). Nothing should be paying less than $20 dollars and honestly minimum wage should be $25 an hour. I’m barely surviving and it’s depressing. Rent is ridiculous and so is the cost of everything else and forget about trying to go to school. I’m seriously considering checking out. This isn’t living.
I am going to try to keep this as vague as I can to avoid backlash. I work for a popular camping retailer in the US and have been working for them for over 5 years. Today, our store had a sit-down with our regional director, not everyone was scheduled and many did not even know that it was happening. During this sit-down many employees brought up the fact that we do not get paid a living wage, full-time employees cannot afford rent much less part-timers (mostly students). When asked, our retail director responded, “We cannot control the economy or inflation. If you want more money find a different job. You will never make a living wage working at this company.” (direct quote). Our company has been in the news recently as a large store is attempting to unionize, mostly due to underpayment and lack of transparency from corporate and…
today i finally did it. i (21M, married, expecting our first in september) work for a local business and they are starting to branch out restaurants to nearby cities. i’ve been waiting for confirmation of whether or not i was going to be working at the new place they opened up, which is 5 min from my apartment. i drive 40 minutes to work for 12.50. all in all, very toxic work situation and i’m so nervous to get a new one, i’ve had a second job for 6 months now so i’ll be okay, but still so very worried for whatever the next thing is going to be. the sooner it happens the better. today. i finally quit. i’m being treated like a child, not even being acknowledged by own manager, being talked shit about so they can keep me at their main shop instead of the new place,…
Reading some of y’all’s stories made me think of my college cashier job at a liquor store. I worked there for a year and started noticing boomer aged customers kept paying with cash and coins. Except they wouldn’t hand it to me. They’d throw it on the counter and the coins would literally scatter. So what I started doing was slowly look down with my hand outstretched and give the coins a 2 second stare. Then I’d take my index finger and touch one coin. I’d slowly slide it off the counter into my other palm. Then the next one and the next one. I swear they’d start fidgeting with impatience. Once they were all in my hand I’d start counting. Probably wasted a good 30 seconds but to me it was pure joy. Then I’d slowly get there change. They’d stick there hand out to accept the change and…
I work for a global company that owns an Australian wide glass company. Huge enough that you would think that they should run like a well oiled machine. I've been there for 3+ years and we have always been short staffed but with covid and all it has only gotten worse. For months I emailed, had phone & in person conversations about my stress and work load. I'm damn good at my job and it isn't because I'm not busting my ass and doing more than I'm paid to do. They kept saying we aren't making enough money to hire another person to help with the work load, even though we are booked out for weeks. There are only so many times you can bring it up, give them fair reason and time to give you what you asked for. I applied for jobs on the Sunday and had 4…
Not that big of a story, really. The company I work for is severely understaffed, and my department in particular has lost 2 of its 5 people this past month. It takes 4-6 six weeks to train somebody to do the work, so it’ll be a heavy load for the next few weeks at least. Today my department had a meeting about this, and how we’re all expected to work harder to get all the work done, but still not work over 40 hours because we won’t be paid overtime. I also want to mention that where I work (Texas), there’s no law requiring an employer to offer health benefits, and my employer does not. So after our meeting I emailed my boss and said I was tired of working so much when obviously we don’t have a good retention rate and we’re not filling positions. So I gave an…
