Not the first to vent about this here but tipping in the US is so out of control. I just went to a boba place in SoCal where absolutely no one interacts with you, you place your own order, and pick up. I can’t even believe I was asked if I wanted to tip. Pay your fucking employees and stop asking consumers to pay them.
i just got off my final 11 hour shift (which followed a 13 the day before, open to close, no breaks) and i broke into tears of fury upon entering my car. i worked at a local arcade running go kart races and bumper cars. don’t get me wrong, it wasn’t hard work; it was the conditions. 13 hours in the brutal florida summer heat & humidity, upon arriving for these dreadful weekend shifts, i immediately drench my uniform with sweat as i fuel the go karts & check tire pressure in this partially enclosed track. throughout the day, i get customers covering the entire spectrum of stupidity, disrespect, if i am lucky, i will get one or two customers thanking me at the end of their time. i can, and have dealt with all of these conditions just fine. there’s one entity that i cannot think about without my…
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I just need notification if a certain person is on campus. Most places, almost never have this person there anyways. The second my last employer found out, they weaponized it against me. Literally sending that person to my home, locking Me in rooms with that person, even mocking my request. When HR tried to help, they terminated HR and made my life a living hell. I’ll probably be in news for it and am scared about how my new employer might handle that too. I can’t express how scared I am.
My mom’s just got her RN, and she got a job at a clinic that is perfectly in line with her interests. They touted on-the-job training during the interview. She shows up and finds out that the training is in the form of online modules that total at least 40 hrs of content. The rule on paper is that she can’t work until she completes that training during work hours. However, they’re super understaffed, so they offered to “show her tasks around the office” while she does her training. This translates to them treating her as though she’s fully trained and giving her work throughout the whole day. They told her that she’s supposed to do the training whenever she has a spare minute, but there aren’t exactly spare minutes lying around. Her boss has been hounding her to finish the training and suggested she do them at home if…
I need to buy my siblings' parts to have a place to live, if my parents hadn't make enough to buy this place I don't know if I'd be able to afford a home. I rented for around 10 years and during the pandemic I moved in here, previously I was barely able to save to buy a car, owning a place was out of the question. It's crazy that our parents had to work all their lives to buy a place to live and that their offspring need to work most their life for exactly the same thing, sounds like a never ending cycle.
For context, I was a manager at a tasting room for a cidery. From the beginning, I was told it was mostly administrative work (also managing events), with a little bit of serving if things got really crazy. Additional context, I’m 6 months pregnant. So, turns out that the “mostly admin work” was a straight up lie. What they expected was me to bartend over 30 hours a week, and then also somehow do a full time load of admin work, without going over 40 hours a week. The owners refused to let me schedule additional bartenders because “when we schedule light everyone just has to work harder, and then they get better tips.” ….yeah ok, if you think people are going to tip well after waiting 30 minutes for a beer because we literally can’t move the line any faster, you’re delusional. This is a person who takes multi-week…