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Doing too much

It’s wild to me how so many employers expect you to do things outside your job description. Like another person’s full time job. I’m the second newest employee at my company and I’m being trained on someone’s position in addition to my own so I can cover them when Theyre out. (Yet nobody could cover me when I was out months ago for a couple of doc appts and I got a talking to about missing work). I understand the employer wants to get more bang for his buck but at the same time, my job description and contract don’t cover that. Shouldn’t employers pony up more money to have us do more work than what was agreed upon? Is that a wild thought in todays world?!

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Need help for my meeting tomorrow

I’m 22f in California So, I’ve been with my company since the end of august. When I was hired, I was offered $18/hr (later learned that was the lowest end of our pay scale for my position) and I was the only full time team member in my position. I live really far from work and my commute is easily 50+ miles one way. We get paid miles as well as hourly on our drive time. Because of this, I was doing alright because I was able to accrue some decent OT with my commute. My job is similar to a traveling salesperson in that I travel to different locations where my companies product is sold and promote it for a couple hours. It’s been known that my commute was a point of contention for our director and payroll dept. they’ve been pestering me asking when I’ll be able to…

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My contract says I don’t have to work Presidents’ Day but my boss just told me I need to anyway?

Apologies if this doesn’t belong in this sub! In my contract it states all the public holidays that I get to have off from work and Presidents Day is one of them, but my boss just told me I have to work Monday anyway. Can I show them the contract and tell them I’ll be taking the day off or is it ridiculous for me to even bring up at all?

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What are some green flags when searching for a job?

I’m aware of lots of the red flags that would make me turn and run from a company. If they don’t post salary, interview is basically gauging how subservient you are etc… What are some things I should look for that would indicate a company is actually worth me giving my time to?

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Would you stay somewhere where you’re paid under the table and below the minimum wage if you don’t have anything else at the moment?

Hello! So I asked a similar question in another sub but I feel like I need various perspectives. The thing is that the place I'm at, I agreed to do an internship (required for graduation) and I made a deal with them to work there for 3 months, with the hopes to be officially hired after, but right now they are telling me that I agreed for 4 months, and so I would have to work for another month with the same low pay, and I don't know what to do. I didn't sign any contract and so there's no evidence of the number of months I agreed to. I don't know what to do now since I feel like I'm being taken advantage of, since a friend who started months before had been offered 3 months in the same deal. Another thing to mention is that it seems that…

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Speaking about why we need minimum wage increases, any suggestions for where to start my research?

Hi, so this post is just about what the title says. I’m working on a speech for my college public speaking class of why the minimum wage has to be raised to help so many get by, does anyone have ideas for where I should start research on this topic? Sorry if this isn’t the right sub for this, been lurking here awhile and couldn’t quite figure out if it would be.

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NYC Agency keeps making up salaries???

Hi – thought i would share this recent experience/ rant. I've been working for a city agency since 2014. For the last year, ive been applying for internal positions with salary ranges posted up to 68k-82k. On 4 seperate occasions, i've applied – accepted interviews for the position, and then told either during the interview, or after accepting the interview that the salary range has dropped as is now 50-62k (essentially what i make now). I've gotten so fustrated – on the last interview, after recieving the news of the salary drop, i cancelled the interview citing that i would not accept the position if offered. I know i make a decent salary, but living in NYC is expensive and i have not gotten any sort of pay raise in over 2 years. I love the work i do and i love the city agency im employed with, but its…

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Have you seen In-Shadow? It is a brilliant 13 minute animation. On our current condition in society.

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Director was being impatient with my bathroom usage.

Not sure if this belongs here, but I've read a few rants on this sub, so I'll add a mini rant myself. So I work at a daycare and this morning I found myself having to use the bathroom like normal humans do. My co teacher also needed to go, so she called the front office so they could send someone to relieve us for a bit. We ended up waiting for over an hour before someone got to the room. I felt bad cuz my co teacher had to go really bad, more than I did I think. This has been happening a lot, especially since so many people quit. One day I had to wait 2 hours cuz no one could come. So after my co teacher comes back from the bathroom, I run out. I had sat on the toilet for no more than one minute before…

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Help applying for customer service jobs please!

Trying to leave my shitty restaurant job cough culhanes irish pub in Jacksonville flcough cough and I'd like to go for one of those customer service jobs at Amazon or Apple that you can work at from home for like 15-17 an hour cause I don't have a car rn and I need to save up to go back to school next year. but I'm looking at the jobs pages on their websites and have no idea what the positions are called or where I should be looking. I got halfway through one at Apple before realizing that it was a program for college students. Sorry that this isn't a “fuck my job story” but I'm really trying to upgrade career wise and do better for myself and a position like this would be perfect until I figure things out over the next year and I'm just really confused at…