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When looking to book yourself a long weekend or when booking a extra day off for a long weekend don't book the Friday off. Book the Monday or the Tuesday if possible. The reason you do this is that Fridays are normally the slowest work day of the week especially on a long weekend, most people already fuck around on a Friday so you won't have much work anyway. Mondays are typically the busiest day of the week with the most going on.

Managers are also going to say no to Fridays far more then to Mondays just on principle that everyone takes Fridays off. Taking the Monday off also lets party on Sunday and still have a day to recover.

Hey everyone I work in retail and I worked the last 3 days and they were very crazy because of thanksgivign and black friday going on. This morning I stopped to review for a Trigonometry exam that I have on Tuesday and Thursday next week but I am not feeling confident at all and I don't think that just Monday would be enough for me to finish studying what I have to. I am scheduled to work this evening and I was wondering if calling off of work with an excuse like this can look bad for me. I've been at this job for 3 months now and never called off and I am afraid of how they are going to treat and see me after this if I end up deciding to get today off.

Every time I speak with a delivery driver at my house, I try and encourage them to join a union, but I think many times they don't really understand me or my intention.

What I'd like to do instead, is make a sign for the bottom part of my front door that says "Join a Union" or some such, so it's visible when the delivery drivers take a picture of the packages they deliver. Are there some pre-made signs I could print for this purpose? It would be primarily aimed at Amazon drivers.

I am a small business owner, but I spent the first ~15 years of my career working for other employers. So, I am writing this with managers and employers in mind who also started at the bottom.

The office party. Let's be real. I would confidently estimate that 80+% of employees do not care nor want to attend. Many of them, like myself, may be introverts and prefer a quiet night at home. They only attend out of obligation and feel pressured to attend otherwise their careers at the company are capped. I'm sure 99% of them would rather take free time and cash instead given the option.

Free food is always enjoyed, but NONE of your employees want to meet up after hours, off the clock, off-site somewhere difficult to find in the dark, get stuck in evening traffic, and then have to drive home at 10:00 PM when it's 20°F degrees out.

I genuinely want to thank my employees for their hard work, because without them I would not be in the position I am. So here is what I am doing. Christmas Eve we are having an office party. People will punch in, do no work, hang out, talk, and I will buy lunch for everyone. After lunch, everyone is dismissed and will be paid for the full day + bonus compensatory with their contributions to the company.

If the employees are attending the office party as part of their job, it should be considered working time, and they should be paid. They should not have to spend their own time and gas, either.

I worked for a place when I was 18 that didn’t allow us time and a half. But they still pressured me to work overtime every week day and just not record the extra hours. It’s been several years now, but I know this company is still doing this. They have a high volume of young employees that don’t have experience or knowledge on how to handle situations like this. I could go on about osha safety hazards, and sexual harassment, but I think you get the point. My question is, what could I do now? I hate doing nothing, knowing the place is still doing this to young people. Thoughts?

I have been having issues with a coworker who is my supervisor. I found him to not have tact when he speaks and comes across as rude to me. He noticed that I was bothered by him and I stood up to him when I noticed him throwing my stuff in the trash and touching my drink. He denied it all of course, even though there’s cameras. At the end of the shift we talked it out and we shook hands. I shook hands but was weary still about him and his character. Thing is this had been building up inside me a day before that shift. I talked to the manager of the business who does the scheduling about this and his solution was to separate our shifts so that we don’t work together, which I agreed on. One week we don’t work together with exception of one shift. This new schedule, made our schedules the SAME! I’m disgusted by this. I literally feel sick to my stomach. I CANNOT stand this supervisor. It’s just too much. One day I overheard him talk about him wanting to learn guitar, and I normally would offer anything I no longer use to anyone who I know would like it. I held back though, given our recent experiences together. We’d have a few hours working together and again I’d overhear him talk again about wanting a guitar and all that. After about a week one day he brings it up to me and I tell him I have a guitar. I agree to bring it to him, thinking he’d be grateful and maybe even nicer than normal. Or at least grateful somehow. A week went by and we didn’t work together again until today. I had the guitar there and let him know. He didn’t even say thank you, didn’t seem grateful. Hours went by and still no thanks. I felt hurt because it took me effort to remember to bring it, especially knowing I’d be doing this mostly not expecting anything other than his gear be happy and thankful. I received no thanks, which I suppose it’s quite sad but I tried to just accept that. However, it really got to me when it was my lunch time. I had to go to McDonald’s to get a utensil so that I could eat my lunch, and he knew this and gave me his card to go get him a McFlurry. I initially agreed, but instantly regretted it once I saw the line. What should have taken 3minutes for a simple spoon, took about 15min only to be told once I was next that there’re not selling mcflurries at the moment. I headed back and told him, and he kinda just said “awh” but I was angry because I only had like 7min of my lunch time left. I was so upset, because I was worried I wouldn’t eat and I was so hungry, and I am also not feeling well either and he knew I didn’t feel well and it’s hard for me to hide when I’m angry or sad and I think he noticed but instead of apologizing I could tell he thought I was giving him an attitude. Which we’ve already had issues working together over our personalities in the past. I had to pretend I physically didn’t feel good, which I didn’t but I was upset over my time wasted, his thanklessness, his lack of empathy, and his inability to apologize for any inconvenience to my time. Yes, I agreed, but where is the courtesy? The respect? The empathy? C’mon. He even used my coworkers lunch time also to send him to get him a smoothie. I felt disgusted. I genuinely dislike this guy. No amount of me being kind, or nice, or good is enough for him. I don’t know what to do anymore. I can’t stand him in all honesty. Can’t stand his face either anymore. He knows this, but I hate being fake. I want to just tell him off but I know I can’t do that. Only one thing I can try is to control myself but that’s very stressful and hard. I need help. I can tell nobody truly likes him, and may are fake in his face. Some genuinely can’t stand him the way I can’t stand him, and it’s rare the ones who like him. I noticed the ones who like him, he gets them free stuff. I want to call out because now I’m starting to hate my job, I’ve already dealt with a lot and I still try to remain positive everyday despite all my stress, but he makes working in an already stressful place 10 times worse. Help me.

Anything I can do besides a strongly worded comment?

In previous years we did have an additional break. Not this time.

Employed for 6 months

Setting up a brand new care company

Had no progress meetings, director communicates through what's app mainly. Recently started to go silent sometimes for days, ignoring requests just generally being aloof

Sat me down last week, said he was extending probation didn't give specific reasons, didn't document the meeting, said I was unproven as management as not yet opened a service.

Had in my offer letter that I could WFH for 2 days a week this has never been ok to do as he makes comments when I request it like "this is the second week in a row you've asked to WFH" etc. also in offer letter it says pay day is last friday of every month and this has never happened instead being paid on the 1st of new month.

He's started to give me orders over message that don't make sense and are not aligned with job, like go out and network (we've no leverage to network as we're not open) my job is compliance not schmoozing. He said that he's extended the probation because they have taken a hit on finances and don't know if it's gonna work and we will get business.

Office environment is very unpredictable, I work with a family member of the director and I think they are feeding information from our conversation to the family member directors about how I am, like things I may say or do at work but putting negative twists on normal office behaviour. Very unsafe place to be.

Director says go out and network then when I did says I need you in the office so that's pretty confusing.

I'm actively seeking employment, I'm due to get paid on Monday just want that money in for assurance. Instead of passing my probation he has offered a Xmas bonus which is a bit bizarre.

If you were hearing all this and experiencing all this as an employee, what would you do? All serious and humourous suggestions welcome as I'm trying to also keep things light

For hourly workers, should I get paid for entering in my time? What happens is it takes about 30 minutes for me to enter in all the time codes for the different tasks I do throughout the week. Should that time be paid or unpaid legally? Is entering in your time considered (work)

I was told in person and in a letter that I would receive two weeks of my usual schedule as severance after being terminated. However, I was fired in the middle of a pay period. So, instead of getting a check for the 36 hours I worked and then another check for severance (56 hours, per employer), I only got the severance.

I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and assume it was a dumb mistake. My plan is to email them asking for the missing 36 hours.

But what then? What if they never respond or if they say that, actually, the 36 hours I worked is part of my 56 hour severance? Do I take them to small claims court? After taxes the paycheck would be like ~$600, so not much but not nothing, either.

Edit: I was not in a union and the job in question is a very small (>20 employees) 501c3 nonprofit.

Edit 2: thank you all so much for your help! I feel a lot better about the situation. I've got an email scheduled to send Monday morning, and hopefully they just cut me a check. If not, I will contact the DOL. Thank you again. I have no experience not getting paid for what I've worked, so I literally had no idea how to move forward. Thank you again!

Considering they're places offering 1 hour for 8, you would expect so.

I’m constantly reading comments on Reddit about how lying on job interviews gets you fired, blacklisted by recruiters, convicted of fraud, and other nonsense. After doing research on executives who were caught lying - and found three high profile cases where senior executives went years without getting caught, or only got caught because some coworker had it out for them (CEO of Yahoo). 

There are three high profile cases that I found - the former CEO of Yahoo, former CEO of Radioshack, and the former CEO of Bausch & Lomb. What happened to them after they were caught? They got a slap on the wrist (but sometimes fired); but either way went on with a very successful career. No one went to jail for fraud lol.

Keep in mind - these are the people that got caught, not all the people that lied. The whole work world is built with lying.

https://backgroundproof.com/executives-that-lied-to-become-ceos/

I work in the SCUBA diving industry in India and my dive centre doesn't give any sick leaves. We get 4 leaves in a month, usually when there are no guests. And that's it.

We don't get weekend offs because that's when all the tourists come in. And my boss forces us to take UNPAID leaves if there are no guests on any given day.

How is this even legal?

We get in the pool at 6 in the morning and catch a cold all the time. But we're forced to take unpaid medical leaves at our expense.

On one hand I felt like I should let the workplace know I was pregnant because of the health and safety aspect and the fact that they'd probably be more accommodating towards the fact that I was pregnant.

On the other hand, I strongly distrust management and my coworkers. One of my coworkers or a group of them committed a crime against me, hacked into my phone and forwarded a private Whatsapp chat of mine talking to my partner (who I work with) to themselves and then edited parts of it and printed it out and lay it around the workplace for everyone to see. This resulted in my colleagues fully hating on me because of the edited parts, apparently I had said for "all white and Indian people to die and go to hell", which I never said. Then there was comments about other coworkers, whether true or not, I don't know because I didn't read it.

In summary, I know there's colleagues out there who hate me so much because of what they believe I said, that I feel like they'd be willing to put poison in my food, especially if they knew I was pregnant.

My partner filled out my maternity leave form but accidentally left it in the room, and as a result people took pictures of it shared it around and also pinned it to the wall. Now everyone knows I'm pregnant at 8 months. A lot of people at work thought I was mental for going to the toilet a lot and caring about the air quality, but now they have an understanding at my behaviour, and are better towards me now.

I bring air purifiers to work, to which management was quite antagonistic towards, but I feel like they have become more understanding as to why I did it.

Should I have let people know about my pregnant sooner? I feel like there were some benefits and then some cons.

A recent whistleblower lawsuit filed in California is shedding light on the risks public employees face when reporting workplace harassment and misconduct. The case involves a public health director who alleges they were fired in retaliation for reporting racial harassment and systemic issues within the County of Lake.

According to the filing, the plaintiff reported multiple instances of harassment and a hostile work environment, including racial discrimination and retaliation for voicing concerns. Despite filing a formal complaint, they were terminated before the investigation into their claims was completed. The lawsuit raises several alarming issues.

https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/55772797/Portney_v_County_of_Lake

My husband has been stupidly stressed all week with working long grueling hours cashiering at our local grocery store. He has come home frustrated and exhausted everyday by people holding up lines to run back to grab some free turkey they didn't bother to grab before, or people literally just screaming in his face. Working in retail has gotten even more grueling as people in public have gotten just so shameless and cruel?

I'm not so old but I swear I remember a time where stores were just... closed on Thanksgiving. My husband should be at home with family, instead he's dealing with last minute customers treating him like garbage, so again when he gets home for the holiday — his days already basically ruined.

Why is nobody talking about this, or are there some huge threads I'm missing? There's zero need for most stores to be open on the holiday, and it's time that's taken away from the workers. for what? small last minute profits? When black Friday is just going to drag them all back on anyways?

There should be a push for just staying home on Thanksgiving. :/

Signed, a bitter lonely woman whose blessed to have had the holiday off.

So, I’ve been seeking feedback from senior leaders and my team for a while now. Not all of it has been positive (and that’s okay), but it’s usually constructive and helps me figure out how to improve and get closer to my goals. I actually appreciate that kind of guidance.

But recently, I had a pretty unpleasant experience with a committee member from my professional development team. When I brought up the idea of a promotion, their response was less than supportive: “A promotion? I’m not sure if you’re on the same level of commitment as some of your peers.” (I was like wtf???)

Ugh. That felt less like feedback and more like a jab. I completely froze in the moment because I wasn’t expecting such a blunt and dismissive comment. I’ve been replaying the interaction in my head ever since, wondering what I could’ve said or done differently.

How would you guys respond if you were in my shoes? Any advice for dealing with situations like this?

I mean, how is this even allowed? 40 hours per week for 3 months and you want to pay people £500 per month? How do you expect people to survive off that?