Antiwork

This is in Ohio. A relative explained that a nearby plant will dock an hourly worker’s pay as follows: If an employee is even 1 minute late, they will dock their pay $5 for every hour they work that day. I was pretty outraged by this policy and I’m wondering about its legality. I googled “docked pay” laws and it seems to me that it’s only legal for an employer to dock pay in increments of 30 minutes, I.e., if a worker is late by 1 minute, you could dock their pay for the full half hour. I’m no lawyer, so I don’t know if an employer could make this policy part of their employment agreement. It just screams control and abuse to me, a policy written by someone who was probably abused and neglected as a child. Report to DOL? Or does an employer have leeway here to write…

As title says, I called sick last week because of high body temperature (over 103F). I am scheduled to work tomorrow and we were told that everybody will get double pay for working on christmas but yesterday a manager approached me and kindly explained that anybody who was sick in the past 2 weeks is not entitled to get double pay for working tomorrow. We're a small team of 15 people, I was the only one who called sick. Should I just quit that shithole and look for something else?

I'm a 17 year old in his senior year of high school. I had been looking for a job for almost a year now. I had interviews at jcpenney, aeropostale, and mcdonalds and I kept getting rejected. Fast forward to November of this year and I decided to apply at hobby lobby for a seasonal job. Since I had to bring in an application in person, I thought I had a slight chance of getting the job. 3 weeks go by and nothing. Until one day after school I get a phone call asking if I could come in for an interview next Saturday at 3 pm. At 2:30 pm I get a phone call telling me if I could come in for the interview at 3, I was like ok whatever. Fast forward, I go to the interview, there was a surprise math test which I think its total…

I’m new to the workforce and have met a few people who I call mentors. These individuals are known as successful in my field. The sad thing is that they haven’t traveled much in their lives. It’s quite sad because they dedicated most of their lives to work. They don’t even travel much within the same state. They tend to spend weekends on work. How do people live in a life like this? How are they happy? Many of them are divorced, which I can understand why.

My daughter (30) has an undergrad degree in communications and an associates in nursing and a bachelor of science in nursing. She was pinned 6 years ago and has worked at two different hospitals in two different states. While the hours were long and appreciation short pre-Covid, now the entire healthcare system has said a big “fuck you” to those that thought they had prepared for a lifelong career. Hospital nursing has always been where the money was but then travel nursing became a thing. She worked alongside nurses making literally five times what she was. But management could not afford to give their employees a raise. They found money for travel nurses but not their own employees. But it is the way they are treated that broke my heart. Her last role was a case manager because that way she had somewhat of a regular schedule. But aside from…