For me it’s about midday on Sunday that the sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach begins for the week ahead. Anyone else?

I won't lie, this caused a giggle fit.

So, lets look at how much a billion dollars actually is, first:
$1 billion = $1000 million

Oh, I can do better ..

Example:
Lets dream big for a moment and imagine, we're making $100k per year at some job (most of us don't have that luxury .. I sure didn't).

Then, we'd have to work for 10.000 years - without spending a single dime of it - in order to become a billionaire (not calculating taxes).

If you wanna be a hundredfold billionaire ($100 billion or more at your disposal), you'll have to work that $100k-job for at least 1 million years .. also without spending a single dime.

Any hundredfold billionaire, who wants to tell me, they've "earned it and saved up" instead of "inhereted it", are liars and I dare them to prove me wrong.

Take this, billionaires :p ... and pay your effin' taxes!!!!

I can understand certain industries needing 8 hours like service industry (restaurant, hotels, retail, etc.) but for most white collar work - it seems 25 hours is more than enough? I don't believe people work all those 8 hours, maybe max 5-6.

It feels wrong that they can take/deny tips for something like missing a name tag (especially if you don't have a name tag in the first place)

I have conflicted feelings, I get they want to enforce a dress close but it feels like the wrong way to.

TL;DR Moving company hired me for a part time position, I nearly became financially destitute and lost my 4 year romantic relationship because I was discriminated against and made less than 2 weeks of typical pay over the course of 3 months.

A few months back I had walked out of a job at a food chain because a manager was being incredibly lazy and the company refused to let us schedule more people so I was having to face very unhappy customers waiting over an hour for what should have been carry-out. I was there for a year and a half and was easily the best service worker they had, but for some reason was so frustrated at that moment that I threw it away. Next job I go to is a moving job, I won’t say what company but they’re pretty big in Florida. I’ve never been the most physically built person but I have good endurance for carrying things within my physical capabilities. I was hired to the job under the expectation I would be working 25-30 hours a week at $13/hour + tips which they claimed were usually $200-300 per week. Not great but I couldn’t really find any better at the time with how terrible the job market here is. There was some assessment things you could do after a bit to get a few hourly pay increases. Now much but it was something.

I went in to training which was the typical giant packet of safety stuff for company protection and noticed there was a lot of people there for training, like 8-10 people, I can’t remember. Figured “eh they just do it in large batches since it’s easier.” Later I learned that this number of people in training is literally a weekly occurrence because of how bad their turnover rate is.

The way their scheduling works is you’re expected everyday, except Sunday, to be fully available from 8AM-whenever PM unless you request off since it’s obviously entirely random how long the jobs last. You have to call in to a phone number after 4:30 and listen to a recording to hear if you’re coming in the next day. But here’s the kicker, just cause you come in doesn’t mean you’re working. You have to go in to the office, a 25 minute drive for myself, wait for them to read off the list of jobs with fingers crossed that you would get a job that sounded decent, and if you weren’t you were paid a single hour of wage and put on-call. Being on-call meant you had to go home and then be available should they need you for the entire rest of the day.

Needless to say I was heavily discriminated for not being the most physically fit person there and was called in maybe 3-4 times a week and worked once a week at most. The jobs could, however, range anywhere from a small storage unit move that took maybe 2 hours tops to a full house move that could take 8-10 hours. You’d never know so you’d never be able to make plans. Also not being tipped was painfully common no matter how polite you are or how hard you work. Moving costs are already so expensive that people often don’t want to even give you a few extra bucks for your effort. You’d never know so you’d never be able to make plans.

The worst of it was when I thought they silently fired me because I didn’t hear my name on the list for a 10 days straight. The only reason I stuck around and kept checking the list was because the job market here is so bad that I couldn’t get a single other job for well over a month despite trying desperately since maybe 2 weeks after I got the moving job. I was barely making enough money to buy groceries, let alone the $2000+ a month I have to pay for rent, car payments, insurance, dental bills, etc.

I live in an apartment with my GF of 4 years and we split rent and expenses. We were faced with the very real situation that she would have to leave me if I wasn’t able to support myself financially. I nearly lost a relationship, an apartment, and was unable to afford to live because I was fundamentally discriminated against by my employers. I went to the manager and explained how difficult of a situation the job had put me in and how terribly it was ruining my mental state and relationship. They essentially just told me that they want to make sure that they always have the people they can trust to do a good and quick moving job to be the ones they send on jobs. I understood that, but if I was such a bad fit then why did you bother even keeping me?

I asked them that they see if there is a better fit for me somewhere else within the company, even a scheduler job, taking calls and setting appointments. The workplace seemed very sexist-ly built, with all the schedulers being women and it seemed like my request to be considered for the position wasn’t taken seriously. I even applied online to the position I saw open at the company and never heard back despite having years of customer service and call center experience.

I turned in my uniform a week later after I had finally found another job. I spent a month of my life wallowing in depression because a company physically refused to either fire me or give me an actually job that I could live off of. The turnover rate at the job was atrocious and I was one of the few people who stayed more than a few weeks. In the 3 months I worked there, I made a total of about $800. I made less than a typical 2 week paycheck at god damn McDonalds over 3 months while being expected to be available 6 days a week with no schedule. It was easily one of the lowest points of my life and it is still affecting me months later as I’m still unable to afford many of my basic expenses.

Greetings there ! I'm an Italian guy that got his 2nd degree one year ago about Food technology and science, with specialization on food innovation and treatment.

Sadly after the degree I took 6 month of relax for myself and gather some info about find a job correctly and such and then finally back on November a big italian cheese company known well in Europe too ( so a very large group) , called me for a job that I applied myself on the packaging area, where the welcoming was fine at start , the boss after 2 months called me in his office for telling me about many replacements that the quality laboratory were happening at time since many were close to retire .

Turns out that after months of wait until this month , I kept working there doing the lowest , unskilled and boring works possible only to find out that all the lab personnel have been replaced only by women that in best cases have just one degree or they have a diploma from scientific high schools.

I'm so infuriated about that even the boss doesn't have the guts to look me in the eyes now and I think on half of May I will leave the place , hoping to find better ...

Working on italy is basically BS

Back in March I got hired at an event working at a warehouse off of my local airport, but after that I spent weeks waiting to actually start then weeks in computer based training, upon completion the manager I had said he was moving in and there was going to be a new manager, I then spent a week waiting to receive my airport badge so I can start my first shift but when the new boss seemed incompetent I just went to the badging office myself and I got it that same day.

Not long after I started working in the warehouse I knew there was going to be trouble with this new manager, the place and previous manager actually seemed to be very laid back before but this individual was a boomer aged individual who wore cowboy boots, was bald with a long white beard. First in the meeting he bragged about making an entire work team clean toilets and sent them home early because one of them supposedly had an air pod in one ear, yesterday when I approached the door at roughly 12:05 but no later, the manager who's new blocks my path from coming in and demands I give him my airport badge, I look at him in a bit of confusion and he looks at me and says "you're late" "I need people who come on time" I mention that I likely haven't used up nearly enough points yet to be terminated and that I still have until the next minute to punch in according to company policy (the clock in machine isn't far away from the entrance) I ask him if I can come back tomorrow he just says no, there were two other coworkers behind me, he asked for their badges as well and told them that they were suspended for 3 days, I'm not entirely sure if that applier to me as well or not and I don't care to call and ask him, I've been late about 8 or 9-ish minutes a couple time before but this was my Monday so I can't be for sure if he started doing this just because of me or not.

A big part of the reason why I've been late before is I live pretty far away from the workplace and I have to take the interstate to get to it in good time but there's frequently hold ups both on the interstate and roads that lead up to it, there's also a traffic light that comes up as soon as I take the exit to get to work that remaina red for 5 minutes at a time, secondly even if I tough it out and just leave very early in the morning compared to what I've done before I feel like someway or somehow I'll just wind up late anyhow or I'll eventually slip up and leave to late, so what's going to happen again then? Will I just be suspended for 3 days or even a week all over again every time this happens?

As soon as I got home I got a call to come in for an interview for position at a Walmart that's just 5-10 minute drive away from my place vs what's a 35 min- 1 hour drive with my current job. The reason why attendance at Walmart is more lienant even if it is considered a notorious place to work by many is because over there I can clock in up to 9 minutes late and even if after I can either compensate with PTO minutes or just adjust my clock in time, it would be easier overall to maintain this job over the other, But my concern is I'll be trading a $17 per hour wage for a $14 per hour wage and the airport job I have now could provide me with some opportunities in the future because it involves working on the airport ramp but at the same time I fear that I'll if this guy is sending people home for showing up 5 minutes late to work I'll just get fired one way or another and be left with no job at all and it's all because of this culture's boomer generation and their trivial over emphasis and unreasonable standards regarding attendance, so I accepted the job at Walmart. Am I making the right decision? To me it seems I'll benefit from the job I can actually remain consistent with.

Work vent lol lonely

I just started a new job recently and it us very demanding because of coperate. Which in returns makes our managers mean or stressed etc. We are suppose to meet a daily quota ,but personally I find it hard to care when I make minimum wage. There are way too many rules and the task need to be timed. The guy at work had a crush on me ,but I don't care to date right now and I only date to get married these days. I am trying to keep this job long term . It just frustrating because my manager is younger then me and will freeze and text in the middle of store with customers around lol. I guess I just find it very hard to be okay at work and be Friendly when IRL life stinks n dealing with my toxic negative mom and no support , friends or car etc. It kind of sad because no one ask me anything so it get kind of draining trying to be friendly etc. F 28 I literally have a different name for work so I can try to decompartmentalize. Plus I can't even have random accomendation like using a notebook. My managers is suppose to write My reminders for me ,but I am suppose to remind her to do that lol . Considering she doesn't have a good memory either .

I genuinely don’t know what it is. If I don’t get it I still have the same job I have now, and while I don’t necessarily like it there, they pay me enough to deal with some extra bs here and there (53k/year or 28/hr). But man, for some reason when it comes to applying somewhere that I’m mostly qualified for and has a minimum starting salary of $15,000 more than I make now… I don’t get it but it’s exhausting.

Hey y’all I just graduated college And low key I never wanna work a full-time job in my life. It just seems miserable. My partner feels the same way (he’s still in college). We would both rather dedicate less time to work, live off a joint income, and have more time to dedicate to our future family.

I just wanna ask y’all here if it’s possible to make a sustainable living without full-time work.

Does freelancer offer more free time? Contract work? Is it realistic to one day find a part-time job that would pay $30 an hour (given you have the resume to earn it)?

The title is the extent of it.

Today I got fired over the phone and the more I think about the reason they gave me the more annoyed I become. So this is the timeline of the last week and you guys tell me if what I did was a fireable offense. (Using fake names but important people of note are Jenna; the host; Craig ;one of the managers; Serena and Jill; two other servers; and Katherine; the owner of the restaurant)

Up until this past Wednesday I would have said I was becoming pretty good friends with Jenna. On Monday before the shift started she told me that Craig had asked her out (she is 20 he is 40). Not illegal but a little strange. Later on in the shift Serena and Jill were complaining about Craig saying he was being passive aggressive and pissy bc Serena didn’t reciprocate feelings for him (or that’s what she says). At this point in time I considered myself friends with them so I contributed to the conversation that I heard from Jenna that he asked her out. In retrospect it was rude of me to share her business behind her back and I should definitely have kept my mouth shut. HOWEVER I did not expect Serena to go directly to Craig and tell him that I told her that and he needs to be more careful or something. Things are fuzzy after this but what I think happened is Craig went to the owner Katherine to squash the “rumor” that I had supposedly started to save his job. They called Jenna in as well and obviously to save her job she backed him up that it was a lie and I made it up and told everyone. Which I did not I told 2 people. And they spread it around with my name on it.

Onto today, Katherine calls me and gives me very little time to explain which did not help my case at all as I got very nervous and then fired me over the phone.

And apparently at the meeting before today’s shift she stopped it to tell everyone that the reason I don’t work there anymore is because I admitted to starting a rumor…

I live in NH so I know that I can be fired for any reason but I also don’t feel I did very much wrong here aside from share something Jenna told me in confidence. And I don’t see how that is a fireable offense.

This is the Sonic Drive In at 5101 N Broadway St Knoxville, TN 37918

The workers here are AMAZING. But bless their hearts! They are understaffed and sweating their balls off. We asked them (genuinely concerned) if they were okay. They said the AC has been broken for 3 years.

Corporate told them to OPEN THE FRIDGE DOORS AND PUT A COOL RAG AROUND THEIR NECKS.

It’s heating up in TN yall. That is soo fucking unacceptable. Do fucking better Sonic!

If you don’t like this corporate bullshit in your town, then call into corporate and let them know 1-866-657-6642

Please respond. Interested in this story.

Just need to vent for a bit. I got laid off last September from my remote technical writing job. The job itself was very dull and not enjoyable for me, but I loved working remotely and the pay was decent. So when I started looking for work again, I kept applying for similar jobs with similar pay (or higher pay because I have more experience now) and have only gotten rejections and ghosted (basically, cowardly rejections).

So, I've had to keep lowering my standards, and I'm just applying to whatever I feel I can feasibly do without going crazy, and it just feels so bad. I have one prospective job right now, but the pay is much lower, it's just a three-month contract with no benefits, it's on-site, and sounds boring as hell.

I feel like such a failure. You're supposed to keep climbing up and making more money with experience, but instead I keep having to downgrade, and I have a bachelor's degree, and I'm in my 30s. Why is this happening? I have worked my ass off at every job to the point of burnout and it's like I'm being punished for it. I have hated every job I've ever had and felt so miserable when I had to get up every morning for work. I'm not even excited about this job. I just really need the money right now, so I guess I'll downgrade once again. I don't want to do this anymore. I'm depressed just thinking about having to take this job.

I'm just flabbergasted the manager had the balls to tell my mom that in her 6 month review.

Apparently she's doing great at her job on everything else but she needs to work on masking her emotions when in meetings. Is this appropriate?

I told my mom she should bring this to hr as how is she supposed to fix that? Pretend to smile the entire 1-2 hour meeting?

I work for a company that they derive hours given to their cashiers based entirely off of the amount of people that their cashiers sign up for the discount emails they give out every so often. My percentage hasn't been that great lately because, every customer has said "no" to me. I used to get about 30 hours per week. Now I'm getting maybe 1- five hour shift per week. I asked why and the management told me that the amount of customers I had signing up for the program was "less than satisfactory" and that in order to get more hours I have to show "improvement in getting customers signed up that are eligible to be signed up". Our schedules go out nearly 2 and a half weeks in advance. For the next four weeks I am expected to work one short shift and "meet satisfactory" on "how many people I can sign up" or I'm assuming this means my hours won't be reinstated.

I don't see how the scheduling manager can sit there and say that makes any sense at all. I spoke to the manager and they said that they don't change the schedule. I can ask other associates to cover their shifts but, "I don't change the schedule. Once it is up. The schedule is final."

Am I wrong in thinking that this is not just the stupidest reason to lose hours but, it's also unrealistic expectations? How am I supposed to get almost every other customer to sign up for emails? I'm not going to push for information people don't want to give me..

People on here might be more familiar with this than me, but I wanted to try and get this out there so more people can be aware of it if they weren't. Links to everything at bottom.

To understand why Mike is garbage person and what he is talking about I'm going to give a little background on who and what.

Mike Rowe the "Dirty Jobs" guy that a lot of us grew up with is a dirty person. He is a conservative, which isn't inherently bad, even when it mostly is. He is staunchly antiunion and lobbies for antiunion practices, so also inherently antiworker. He also believes that when you work for a company the company should come first, you and your feelings along with your needs and wants shouldn't get any consideration. The worst part is he is anti safety, he specifically thinks your safety is only your responsibility and not the company you are working for. You can find everything is feels a employee should be at the link below that takes you to the SWEAT Pledge.

The PRO Act is legislation that amends the National Labor Relations Act, and it has passed the house and is apparently actively being looked at right now hence the ads. Its legislation that will give workers and unions more collective bargaining power, a example is in right to work states where unions would be able to protect employees from being fired for no reason(if you don't know what right to work is google it, Its bad. [cont. at bottom]). It also reclassifies what a employee is, to my understanding if you work mostly for the same company and they tell you what to do and you don't regularly contract for other companies you will be classified as a employee of said company. Those are the small tidbits to just frame this.

This is the part where I trash Mike. He is running 10 min long ads on YouTube preaching that the PRO Act is anti independent contractor, and will harm innocent people that don't want to be bothered. I assume most of the people here are aware that some independent contractor positions are scams, depending on the field most of them can be scams. Such as most truck driving positions, where companies have scammed people into becoming a "independent contractor" to avoid both unions and that person being classified as a employee. If you weren't familiar now you are. The PRO Act amends a part that specifically targets contractors that work for the same company almost exclusively. There are multiple criteria that one must meet in order to be classified as a employee, its the ABC test. If there is any independent contractor that solely relies on a single company they aren't independent, they are a employee. When you only work for one company and not as a freelance contractor which does have benefits, being classified as a employee gives you more protection. If you aren't making enough money to make up the difference that being a employee would get you, then you are being scammed. There are costs that you have to specifically cover, normally a employer helps you cover most if not all of these things aside from taxes. To make up the difference to get even with the company you have to fully cover your own insurance, every kind of tax, retirement, buying and maintain your tools and equipment. That's a lot of money, insurance can be 400-500 alone.

This might be poorly written and I might have used wording that could be changed, but I'm sick right now. I was in bed watching YouTube when the ad came on and it pissed me off. Mike is a douche and the fact that he was railing against a piece of legislation made me google it. Turns out from what I read, which was not the entire bill, its pro worker and pro union. There is probably more in the bill that could be considered bad just like omnibus bills but the only thing being reported on is the these few worker aspects. So I wanted to let people know and try spread awareness that Mike is a colossal douche and that this bill is good, even if its only good because Mike doesn't like it.

Regarding the right to work and what I know and my opinion on it. Its legislation that would passed by companies lobbying that give companies the ability to fire anyone for no reason, not any reason. There are still protected classifications that you cant put on the you were fired for, such as the color of your skin. But that's the point of the bill, it lets them just say your fired and you have no recourse. It works the other way to, which is where the mostly came from. It allows you to just walk out of your job regardless of reason and they cant do anything unless you broke contract or a law.

Ps: Most of this is either stuff I looked up and am parroting and/or know, so there is probably things I got wrong and/or partly wrong. The point still stands and do your own research if you want more details.

Mike Rowe

https://mikeroweworks.org/about/ https://www.boerneisd.net/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=23253&dataid=32549&FileName=The%20S.W.E.A.T.%20Pledge%20Mike%20Rowe.pdf

The stupid ad that pissed me off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPYpdZ0oljA

PRO Act

https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/842

ABC Test

https://www.labor.ca.gov/employmentstatus/abctest/

Edit: formatting edit 2: Even though me replying isn't important to this post at all, I'm going back to bed now. I enjoyed most of the comments so far and even learned some new stuff. If I don't reply anymore tonight its because I didn't get back out of bed.

https://moneywise.com/investing/real-estate/dave-ramsey-investing

This motherfucker does talk radio and has the balls to complain others don't want to work. I do more in a day then Mall Santa does in a year.

I started a clerical healthcare job about a month ago, and I’m not sure I want to stay there. Though we are told to take our breaks, my coworkers all don’t take breaks, skip lunch, and clock out but continue working at the end of their shifts. I don’t want to do that. I take my breaks, and when I clock out I leave work behind me.

The office is clearly understaffed and I believe my coworkers are being exploited because most of them are in their 20s and choose to do this even though they are not asked to do it. The office will never be fully staffed if they keep willingly doing this, because why hire more people?

There is a weird vibe I can’t put my finger on. People are curt and look miserable. They constantly bitch about how “other people” don’t know how to do their jobs and absolutely lose their shit whenever anyone makes a tiny mistake.

There is a new manager who got hired right before me who is very driven and has an aggressive, drill sergeant vibe. Because I’m the newest person I’m basically her project and I don’t really like it. She alternately ignores me and micromanages me.

I know all workplaces have their shit and it’s always hard adjusting to a new place, but I’m too old for some of this stuff. I’m in my 40s and I have a life outside work.

Call it what it is: it’s a SECOND JOB because we’re at a time where most people need two of them to just survive.

Stop trying to give it a catchy name and make it sound like late stage capitalism is fun. For fuck’s sake.

Thank you for letting me rant. I’m sure people have posted rants about this over and over again, I’m just so over it. Thank you for letting me vent.

I’m 22 and have been employed for a long while but can only provide one professional reference in the form of my last boss. I’m in the final stages of getting a new team lead job but he wants 3 references. I don’t have any friends nor anyone I could really go to other than family to get one. I don’t want to use one of my family members as a reference. What should I do?

Last year I was working finance for a company and while I was pretty comfortable in my job it became apparent to me that I was being underpaid compared to similar jobs at different companies. I very quietly started applying for and interviewing for positions at other companies. Some doing the exact job I was currently doing, some branching out slightly. (There are different types of finance for those not in the know).

I got offered a job that paid over £2 more an hour and came with clear progression through the company. It was an attractive offer and I decided to approach my department manager. I explained that while I liked the company I was at I felt underpaid, undervalued and as though there was no career progression. I gave her the appealing aspects of the job I was offered and asked if she was willing to make any changes to entice me to stay. After discussing it with senior management she offered me a pay rise and promotion starting three months from that date. I weighed my decision but felt staying with the current company was the right decision given the offer.

Unfortunately not long after I caught covid for the first time. Having underlying health conditions I was extremely poorly, I'm talking hospitalisation poorly. I ended up off work for three weeks and it was discussed by my supervisor and department manager that I would work from home for a few weeks after that to make sure when peak season hit I was healthy and available to be in the office more. Every single part of my job could be done from home except one weekly task (that took me about an hour hour & half once a week). I spoke with my supervisor and we decided that she would take over that one job and I would take on two of her "supervisor" tasks and would train to do another one.

Two and a half months later my department manager and I had a meeting to discuss how things were going to change - my pay rise and promotion was finally going to kick in!! The meeting did not go as expected. My department manager told me that given my time off that they were concerned I wasn't yet capable of being promoted to supervisor, I hadn't even been able to complete all my regular tasks and I needed to be in the office more. I was livid. I explained that while I was recovering yes I had given one of my regular tasks to my supervisor- at her suggestion - however I had taken on two of her tasks and that I was now in the office as per my normal schedule (which means I'm in the office more than any other department colleague!). She didn't care for my "excuses" so I did the only thing I could think of - I quit.

Right there on the spot I gave her my resignation verbally, walked back to my desk and immediately sent her my formal written resignation. Everyone in the company knew about my upcoming promotion so when I was upset after the meeting people were curious and I was very honest with them. There was a lot of fuss from people, it turned out I was liked more than I thought! In the end my notice period let me leave mid-peak season and 3 other people resigned in the days following me. Its been 5 months and they've only just found my replacement.

I've since realised that no company has loyalty to an employee. Heading towards self-employment. I may not get paid when I'm sick but I won't get punished for being sick either!!

The last company I worked for did some questionable things and some flat out illegal things when it came to how they treated their employees. Working thru lunch cus the concrete truck was there happened way more than it should have and got to the point they were planning on it because there would be little ceasers pizza somewhere for us to scarf down when we could.

My question is on an 8 hr shift if we break for lunch after 4 hrs does that cover all the ohsa requirements? Only getting a lunch break was a daily thing, and sometimes when I had to drive to another jobsite or gas station to use the bathroom I would get my pay docked because of it.

Not sure if it matters but I work in KY where they are actively trying to repeal the laws that guarantee workers lunch breaks among other laws that benefit employees. Lawmakers have done a damn good job of busting up local unions when the made it a right to work state and if they are able to repeal the laws they want to, ohsa regulations will be the only line of protection for most all blue collar workers not in a union, granted some companies will still do right by their employees…but many won’t.