Antiwork

I have the worst luck with jobs. I just started a new job in a marketing position a little over a month ago. I thought I was finally getting compensated fairly with it being a salaried position. I have a degree and three years of experience in the field, the pay is 43,000 a year. The role I was hired for is to work directly with the design team, bridging the gap between them and all other departments design requests. Additional responsibilities include updating building signage, booking vendors, ordering things, and helping out with events when needed. Severe staffing issues in my department have recently come up. They let another employee go, this employee was responsible for setting up, running, and taking down all events as well as tracking inventory and some other smaller duties (it is the position directly under mine). This employees responsibilities have now all be given…

Hey all. I need some help. I quit my last job a week and a half ago. My former employer deducted my entire gross pay from my last paycheck. She gave me a bonus a month ago and is now telling me her lawyer said it's legal to “take back the bonus”. This sounds completely illegal and unethical. I'm going to contact the dept of labor and my state's dept of labor, what else can I do? Thanks in advance for your help!

So background: My mother is on her third stage of chemo and lost her house and got her car stolen, All within the last year. I am getting her on my lease and put her up in a hotel while it is processing so I am not with her everyday. She's on very heavy medications, fentanyl, oxycodone, among many others. She is in horrid pain, incoherent and has terrible memory issues. A couple weeks ago she left the hotel by herself and passed out in a fred meyers and was in the ER for a couple days. Yesterday I went into work and got my morning tasks done and asked my boss for an early lunch,explaining she has not been heard from in two days and I need to check in on her. She accepted and I left to find my mom was gone. She was not at the hotel…

If I can't find a job in 2 months, I'm branded as a lazy person that isn't putting in any effort, but employers leave positions unfilled for months and it gets written off as not their fault because “nobody wants to work”. Many of thse companies don't really want to hire. They don't want to raise wages, train anybody new or hire anyone less than perfect. Many of them are content to dump the workload on existing employees as long as it gets done. They aren't desperate like the media portrays.

So I just got hired at this really small literal mom and pop cafe in the town I just moved to. When I was hired, the one owner told me I would get “$14 an hour plus cash tips.” Maybe I’m just fuckin stupid, but I didn’t realize that that meant literally only the cash tips and I would not get paid any of the tips that people leave when they pay with a credit card. I asked her about credit card tips today and that’s when she told me, very coldly, “Like I told you yesterday and the day you were hired, you get cash tips. We keep credit card tips.” Most of our payments are done with cards so I am missing out on a LOT of tips. I have never worked somewhere that I did not receive tip outs from credit card tips. Is this even allowed?…