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Hi, I was asked this question a while ago. I knew it was a trick question. The company only wanted to pay the minimum to bring me on board. What's the best way to answer this question? Back then I replied “I would like to be paid fairly according to the people with the same experience and responsibility in your company”. The manager wouldn't take it. He insisted that I said the X dollar amount. Man, I really hate that guy.

Maybe its the neurodivergency, maybe its the times, or its just culture now adays i have no idea. I grew up watching my dad work where he did and it became my dream….busted my ass learning all I could and came in at the bottom at 20, got tricked multiple times into changing positions being told “yeah you'll move to where you want just go here”. This year makes 12 years, last year my best friend and coworker(someone i literally grew up next to) killed himself. I took up his job, did his dads job (so he would greive and not have a mental breakdown at work) on top of doing my own…..6 months into that I finally reached burnout when my opportunity I have worked this whole time for came up…..they gave it to a guy who showed no interest til 2 months prior with not even a quarter…

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Just started a new job, in California if it matters. The expectation is to work unpaid overtime off the clock, and you get written up for clocking in even a minute over 8 hours, but the expectation is to just keep working anyway. It's a really short term temp to hire, so I'm considering sticking it out that long and then just reporting them to the CA labor board, because fuck 'em. If I do, is there any way for me to prove I was working off the clock? Is there anything I should do now, to make the best case possible?

My husband started in therapy and asked to come into work an hour and a half early one day a week so he could leave early that day to make his afternoon appointment and still work his 8 hour day. They approved this originally, but now are saying he can't start early anymore. They are requiring that he take PTO in order to make his appointment. They are not allowing him to essentially make the time up by working early on that day. This baffles my fucking mind. It makes zero sense to have an employee say “I want to work” and to then tell that employee “we prefer you don't work.” What I really think they are saying is “we can't tell you to stop going to your counseling appointments, but we can control your actions by forcing your hand and making you use your PTO for it.” Essentially,…

It's a plastics factory. It's not that serious guys. I'm not mad at it, just find these policies to be so funny. I can get “points” taken off by working 30 days straight! Isn't that amazing?! F if anything happens in my personal life, let me get those points off my record! 🤪

A supervisor made a comment to my work section group (that consists of about 20 people including one section manager, two supervisors for the two section units, and staff) that he was taught not to ask women their age or if they were pregnant. I later learned that he was saying this mockingly. But in the moment, I responded and said yeah, and don’t ask women when they are going to be pregnant/ have kids/ start a family. These comments were made in the group chat/ text during a virtual section meeting where the manager was asking a staff member (woman) her age on her birthday. She avoided answering but he kept asking. The next day, we had an in person section meeting. The same supervisor was explaining why we need to cross train everyone so that we have backups for when a section staff member retires, goes on vacation…