Antiwork

Worked xmas eve and Xmas day. My staffing company has a contract with me and the place I work that’s spells out I will be paid a higher rate for holidays and specifically names xmas and xmas eve. Today is payday for the pay period and no holiday pay on my pay stub and paycheck reflects normal amount of pay for non holiday shifts. Sent an email to the appropriate people this morning but how long should I give them before making an official complaint to DoL. My staffing company is severely incompetent and I’ve had multiple issues. Luckily I have another contract at a different company lined up for next week.

My manufacturing job is extremely tolerable aside from low pay. However, UPS, which is union, may necessitate a pay-cut and a part-time position for a much higher ceiling in the long-term. For context, I live in Kentucky which is Right to Work and At-Will employment. Meaning I could be fired for organizing, if it can't be proven to be retaliation, which is practically impossible. Anyway, has anyone faced this dilemma before? Is it worth unionizing under hostile conditions or better to just join a union shop? The silver lining is that I'm planning to go to UPS anyway. So I'll sook have nothing left to lose at my current job. Thanks, y'all.

So the American healthcare system is interesting. I want positives and negatives on how you would improve on it. Or completely reinvent it. But you can’t just say “just throw it away” be practical.

I work for a supermarket. They supply clean uniforms everyday,(great) we just I came into work a bit early to change onsite. The section I work in have a rack for street shoes right next to where we clock in. So we get changed, come downstairs, slip on our work shoes, clock in and head to our area. The other week I got told off when I clocked in before I changed shoes, about 5-10 seconds difference max. Does this seem petty to anyone else or am I just reading to much into it.

Started a new job back in September at a and was excited. I was very up front in interviews about work life balance being my top priority. I have health issues, and I’m also just not interested in killing myself for a corporation that doesn’t care about me. Boss assured me people have great WLB. The first week I start, I’m working until 9pm. They regularly reach out on holidays & weekends and beg us to work. It’s also not the work I signed up for — I’m supposed to be doing internal coms (which I handle on other accounts), and this is all media monitoring. I’ve had other jobs where I’ve had to sometimes work late and holidays, but at those places it was a genuine emergency (by job they said we’d all need to be available over holiday break because our client was open. I politely let them…