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My boss has always done vacations and PTO separately, looking at my employee manual, it also shows holiday pay and PTO as separate (albeit doesn’t specifically say it’s separate, just implied). My boss just talked to my coworker and apparently said it’s taken from PTO..but again this hasn’t happened before and we’re really confused. Is it illegal for an employer to use your remaining PTO hours as holiday pay in CA?

Is one better than other? Why?

Reposted here since my last post got locked on another subreddit. So have a bowl of candy on my desk that I leave out for my coworkers. Nothing too fancy, just some peppermint buttermints to freshen up our breaths. Today, I had an older gentleman(70's) that came up to my desk to hand in his work. While I was checking it, he went for the mints. He took a mint, unwrapped it, and (to my horror) threw the wrapper back into my bowl. I stopped what I was doing and told him to take the wrapper out and that the bowl was not for trash but only for candy. He proceeds to take the wrapper out and HANDS me the wrapper. And the following conversation goes: “I'm not going to throw away your wrapper for you.” “You need to be nicer. You are a nasty girl with a bad attitude.…

Please tell me I'm not crazy; the managers act like this isn't a big deal. I work in a bakery/deli department in a supermarket. My manager (50/60sF) is such a control freak, she tries to micromanage the customers. She treats everyone like the enemy her boss, us, the customers. She hates us workers so much that she won't print the department schedule. We can individually look up our own except on the weeks that she is mad at us, and she waits until Monday or Tuesday to input it. (It's supposed to be done on Fridays. Our work week starts on Thursdays.) If she catches us talking about it, she'll say “Y'all don't need to know their schedule!” or one time she blamed me saying that she didn't need to because I memorized everyone's. Customers will want to place a cake order and I have no idea if the cake…

All for just 1,25% of salary or maximum of 49€(~53$) /mo. This union is for Technology industry and it has ~120 000 members. Labour legistlation is not good, go unions! It also includes unemployment benefits and it means we are able to keep 45% of our salaries for 300, 400 or 500 days depending on the employment length before unemployment. (This is paid by the unemployment fund). Without being part of the fund you get only 800€/mo of unemployment benefit. ​ I was living good on the unemployment funds, until it was about to end and needed to find work which I luckily did.

Im really just looking for advice on what to do. I have bachelor's in accounting and am working on a second in finance. I thought with it being tax season I could, at the very least, get a seasonal job before my baby is due (May). I have done so many interviews and potential employers being adamant that they can work around the one class I have this semester. But as soon as I tell them I'm pregnant they change their mind and say they can't work around my single, evening class. I really want to save up some money before having this baby but I'm a total loss other than lying about my pregnancy.

These days, many people think that housewives are lazy and they don’t do much throughout the day. Let’s say somebody asks what is your profession. And you respond by saying that you are a stay-at-home mom or a homemaker. And they respond “wow so lucky! You get to chill at home all day”. Or if they say “don’t you feel guilty that your husband has to work while you’re just sitting at home”? How would you respond ?