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Four Twelve Hour Shifts In a Row… Never Again.

I am now back at my old job as CNA, for which the pay is okay. Now and then we'll work 12-hour shifts sporadically, just as long we get 36 hours in total. At first, it didn't seem like a bad idea… until our schedule creator decided to have me do 4 twelve-hour shifts in a row without warning. After the 3rd night, I started to get angry at co-workers who were downright lazy. Some of them would pass off tasks to others, such as myself, while some would sleep on the med floor. It was due to this that the majority of the nurses and patients had asked me to do certain tasks. Things like this have been reported to the higher staff many times… but they're so desperate for CNA's that they keep them. When I went to them about it, I told them the truth, that I…

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working with a racist and a murderer

Ab a year and a half ago I worked at a certain americanized taco chain and about six months into working a new employee was hired: Shane. Shane was a crazy conspiracy nut who was racist antisemitic homophobic transphobic antivax anti homeless basically fucking insane and he constantly harassed the female workers specifically the younger ones like me (18f at the time) and my work friend (17f at the time). He did things like mention our weight our butts and touching and getting really close to us when attempting to “squeeze” by us even though there was plenty of room for him to go past not to mention his insane extremely offensive rants he often went on a particularly insane one I got caught up in one night when we were closing alone together (I would be fired if I refused and was scared and uncomfortable) he talked about how…

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Setting work boundaries and when venting to boomer parents they don’t understand

Ok so I was venting to my parents because I was doing a favor for a different department and they didn’t get me the material I needed til 6 pm and still expected me to turn it around and finish the same day. (I’m an accountant for a private company). I vent to my parents, but still worked til 8:30 pm got 3/4 of the work done and then a miracle happens my internet provider had an outage and I received notice they will be out til 10 pm. I message to the coworker and stated that I got the 3/4 work done but since I received it so late, and due to the outage I’m picking it up tomorrow morning. I politely stated to please submit earlier no later than noon going forward. Rather than being sympathetic my boomer parents side with the coworker and say that I need…

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My job won’t let me have two days off in a row

Last month my bosses changed my schedule so I'd no longer have two days off in a row until we find a replacement. The problem is finding a replacement has been nearly impossible, every potential person we interview is either a bad fit or falls through. I brought this up to my manager and he said he'll bring it up with the next meeting with the owners. Other than that, theres nothing he can do. I'm intimidated to go to the owners saying I need my weekends back but it's the only way I can get my weekend back. Getting two days off in a row shouldn't be something I have to be begging weeks for. The fact I'm working for a company that is making me go through this has been beyond irritating. My mental health has declined. I want to tell them how this caused me to almost…

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Saw this post on Facebook. The comments made me FURIOUS!!!

I saw this posted by a guy that owns a few fast food chain stores. Honestly he's a hard working guy and holds several ownership positions. But his complete lack of accountability for not being able to hire people is laighable. All of the comments on his post were the usual arguments about how “People don't wanna work anymore” and “They're only interested in what you can do for THEM. ” It drove me to Absolute anger. Like, why are we not having the conversation that “People DO wanna work.They just don't wanna work a shitty job for wages that don't support a dignified life. All the while being fully aware that you are living extremely comfortable as a result of YOUR EMPLOYEES daily efforts!” People don't show up for your lousy fast food job interview because you pay shit, demand ridiculous hours from them, and ( likely) talk down…

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Work took away our stat day and decreased its pay.

Work took away our stat days so that we no longer get the day off with 12 hours pay. (we only work 12s.) Now they want us to work the stat day and also only get 8 hours stat pay, even though we are still here for 12. I mentioned in passing the supervisor to a coworker “oh fuck that I'm just can no call no show the sunday than.”.

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Recording video in the workplace.

My company had us sign a paper tonight stating we are no longer allowed to have our phones out in the office because “You guys record stuff that goes on in the office”. I obviously know bathrooms and other areas where there is an expectation of privacy is a no go. Can my employer legally tell me I cannot record video in the offices common areas? I am in Florida if that helps.

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They cut my hours because i reported one of my managers

I (19F) am eight days into this full time fast food job. I am getting paid $16.55/hr, the minimum wage where I work. One of my managers, A (30M), made a comment about how I should smile at them (the staff) more. I made a joke about how he doesn't pay me enough to smile at him and that I'm saving my energy for the customers. After i clocked out that day, A told me we needed to have a conversation in his office. He locked the door and told me off for having “too smart a mouth” for how tiny I am. (I am 5'4). He then continued by saying “you know, at that moment I could've fired you because your words can affect the staff's mood, but I let you stay because I like you and I like your smile. I didn't even call in the people you…

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I’m actively looking for work in northern Ontario after this.

I’ve been dealing with my teeth for a bit, scheduled all my appointments to coincide with time off work. I’ve not had a left canine for about a week, I work for the capital police. It’s been so cringe for me— got an appointment to fix—- no, sorry. how dare you! I’m actively looking for any sort or work in northern Canada because I’ve never been so embarrassed and angry that I couldn’t sleep.

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Anyone else have boot-licking coworkers who give themselves and you more work for no god damned reason?

I need to rant about my day, it was the worst I've had in a very long time. It's going to be very whiney, angry, and probably hard to understand until after I edit it a few times, so if you don't need that in your life right now, you've been warned. My job involves doing out-doors manual labor with heavy-ish machinery. The company I work for is small, just a few senior field technicians and we hired new guys so that each technician gets a helper. One of our senior techs called out today so I got his work and his helper dumped on me today. Helper is one of these people who think his mouth works the same way as his heart, meaning that he thinks that if he stops using it then he'll fucking die. One of my jobs today was borderline not-doable with our machinery, so…