I am in my fifth year working in education. As much as I love the students, it is no longer worth it. Tomorrow, I tell the district I will not be returning after the end of the semester. Wish me luck.
Not that I enjoy work if I were healthy, but I've gotten to where I try to avoid as much work as possible. I know it's impossible to quit because of bills and rent, but there are days that I actually cry and dread every day I go in. Some days I'm fatigued, but not sick, and anxiety compounds this. I tried antidepressants, but I don't care for the way they make me feel. I have some muscular chronic pain too from a car accident a few years ago and no job I've ever had accommodates my issues. The medicine is a muscle relaxer and it just makes me too sleepy to work. Right now, I don't have the money for internet or experience or I would get a remote job. I'm so sick of anxiety ruining my life and the fact that I'm forced to work and go against…
I work in a restaurant in Oregon, where the law states that if you run a business with 10+ employees; you accrue 1 hour of sick pay per 30 hours worked. My boss/owner refuses to acknowledge the law and I don’t know what to do. I make very good money there, and the lawsuit would be pointless (although it is obvious that this has been going on since opening 7 years ago). I also would like to add that if I were to contact OSHA and they contacted the restaurant, it would very obviously be me, which would create an awful work environment for me for a measly 40 hours of 13.50/hr sick pay. Any advice?
I work in a field where nothing is life or death. And it doesn’t even inconvenience anyone else when others aren’t in. We all have our own work to do, and no one has to wait on anyone else to do their work. But my boss tried to say I never told him I wasn’t coming in, even tho the proof was all right there in the text thread he messaged me on.
Quick rant: I'm seriously ill, and I've been in a hospital 2 hours from home for 13 days, so no quick popping by when there's a free minute. Keep in mind my husband switched jobs last year, and this one is somehow a step up. I've seen him once in this whole time because his job has no paid vacation, no sick pay, no paid leave of any kind. We can't afford for him to not work. I am recovering from surgery alone, I'm going through ugly complications alone, and it's all because employers are allowed to not offer such basic, vital things. His boss has made it clear if he needs to take off in the middle of something that's totally fine, he can take time off with no warning during this. That's nice and all, but how does this rich ass not realize that not everyone has a…
In summer 2021 I had a job which I had to leave abruptly due to a serious health issue. My manager denied that the final paycheck I had seen in their app of $400 existed, and stated nothing had arrived for me. I was 19, naive, sick, and didn’t have it in me to fight so I just decided maybe it was a mistake. Fast forward a year, the company sends me a letter about unclaimed property in that amount, check number and all. They state that I have to send x info to them or the funds will be remitted to the state on a date 1 week from when I received the letter. And it will take them 6-8 weeks to get back to me when I submit the info. I submit it immediately anyway. This was in August, and I never heard back from them. After 8…
Is the source of the extra strong anti-worker feeling among right-wingers right now just that simple and selfish? Yes, I know right-wingers have always despised workers, and that the upper class wants more profit and control, but I'm talking about the anger among rank-and-file right-wingers.