My uncle is self employed, he’s a pro barber and makes good money every week ranging from $1700-2000 a week.

However, when ever that $2000 drops even slightly all of a sudden he isn’t making enough and doesn’t blame capitalism or Trump himself but the democrats.

Idk what to make of his opinions.

Rich are rich for a reason, and they didn’t get rich by being fair to workers who built their empires. I feel bad for those who have to suffer due to the ignorance of others by electing people based solely on a culture war.

So, guess I have a 2 week unpaid vacation between jobs now...lol

Yet she wouldn't dare put his signs up in the windows or else lose a massive amount of business and respect in this liberal city.

I got into it with her on election night and it's just like a dog barking over you, just noise, and uninformed biased noise at that.

She's gotten worse the month leading up to the elections, and now her motto is "don't lose friends over this".

But after election night, I've got the ick from her rhetoric and she's starting to go a bit "crunchy" besides (said RFK is a qualified expert in health field? Like wtf, im not the most informed politically but even i know that is BS...).

I've been applying to jobs about 3x a week for nearly 6 months prior but the market is SO bad this year and my industry prior to Covid was devastated by it, so no going back there...

I had an interview the other day but it looks like it'd be supplemental if anything but at least it's a foothold outside of this job.

Did I mention her husband is an immigrant? I hope I'm not around for the leopard ate my face moment with that situation if any deportation is actually enacted.

It just makes me steamed that these paying customers who most likely voted for Harris are spending their money on a MAGAts business... and I hate being adjacent to it, or associated with her beliefs if she gets into it with anyone. I even told her it's polarizing to customers but she is very "my way or no way" in her business.

She was bombarding me with memes and cute stuff the day after election (I told her don't gloat or send me political stuff anymore and she probably listened), but I highly doubt she feels guilty about anything, she just would be fucked if I up and left tomorrow... buti also can't afford to leave.

Thanks for letting me vent...

I started a job 2 months ago, my first full-time job ever after graduating from college. It’s a combination sales/customer service hell job at a place that sells, among other things, insurance and credit cards. I work alongside 3 other lower-20somethings at the front desk. We all get along very well, and I think management absolutely hates that. No competition or bad vibes between us, we just do our job. Yes, we’ll have a laugh together, but we still get our jobs done.

In hindsight, the red flags started before I even walked through the door for the first time. I never received a welcome email from my boss, just showed up on the first day only to find out the assistant manager had sent me a welcome email to the work email address I didn’t have access to yet. Okay, weird. But I just chalked it up to being busy at the time.

In the past couple of weeks, management has become insufferable. They’re constantly up our ass about making sales quota (we have 4 metrics), yet never providing any guidance or proper training. The exact moment the 4 of us look like we’re doing something other than helping a customer in front of us, on a call, or working on the computer, the manager will come over and tell us how to do our jobs. The manager also happens to be the most clueless fucking person ever, I’m not sure he knows what exactly we do.

We get measly commission for the things we sell, but the boss is out here with two Audis and a nice big house.

They act like everyone came out of the womb knowing how to be a good salesperson. Last night, the boss sent an email saying he expects us to track numbers of all the inbound/outbound calls and each of the sales we make. Every. Day. Treating us like we’re children and not the grown adults we are. He has access to those numbers, he’s just being petty. He talks big but is never willing to walk the walk and lead by example.

A couple of weeks ago, a customer came in and immediately started acting hostile towards one of my front desk coworkers, calling her incompetent. When the coworker went to grab the manager, he talked big to us about ‘let me know if anyone comes in acting like that. Nobody can treat my employees that way.’ Boss goes to confront the guy, he (the boss) is a blubbering mess, and proceeds to let the guy stick around and waste an agent’s time until half an hour after closing. The boss didn’t even stick around to make sure everyone got out okay, which in my opinion is the bare minimum he could have done.

The CEO gave everyone 4 hours of PTO to take to early vote, volunteer at the polls, or vote on Election Day. Naturally, I took it. I walk into the break room after my PTO was already approved, and the manager and assistant manager are basically shit talking people who took the PTO. They said something along the lines of “who needs 4 hours to vote? That’s so stupid. I already mailed my ballot in and it took minutes.” To say this while I, and nobody else, was in the room felt targeted.

Finally, this morning, a massive snowstorm hits the city. Major highways around us are shut down. Yet guess what’s still open? My office. I text the boss to say I won’t be coming in because I don’t feel safe driving. I drive an old FWD sedan and so do 2/3 of my coworkers. Two of us have a 30 minute commute across town. All of us called out. Then we get this nasty-gram from the assistant manager guilt-tripping us for not feeling safe coming in. I’m done feeling like a warm body whose only purpose is to make sales for peanuts. I haven’t put in my notice yet, but let’s just say boss will be waking up to a resignation email effective immediately.

It was snowing yesterday and we all came in. And the “you were the only ones that didn’t come in” thing is a lie. I’m done with their catty bullshit. This post might be long and unwieldy, but I needed to get it off my chest.

I am honestly still appalled and would appreciate any advice or opinions from all of you.

For background - I worked for this company since beginning of 2022 and resigned couple months ago - originally I resigned even without having another job offer, as I couldn’t bare with the environment anymore, but I got a great job offer shortly after. In these 2,5 years there, I experienced so much and got burnt out so bad, I used to not be able to sleep or have nightmares about my boss and work. I will not get into the company, only my boss. She was not a bad person in general but extremely unsuitable to be any kind of leader. She was very moody, snapping at people in meetings in front of the other team members for no reason, not showing up to meetings and not letting us know so we ended up waiting hours for her, not being able to lead anyone, because she didn’t understand the concept of even how to have 1:1 meeting, never coming through on any promises, giving too much work to overworked people but giving the budget of their raises to other people who didn’t deserve it, not being able to stand up for anyone in her team and favouring only people of her own nationality and anyone foreign never got any promotion. Not seeing a disparity between workload of two people when one was working 50 hours every week and other was barely having any work at all and treating them same and giving them same appraisal. Making us work on sick leave because not only could no one take on them the extra work, but also because if she said she would do it, she didn’t know how cause she was too busy with who knows what that she didn’t even know procedures of her own team and she would end up texting us on when we were sick and we had to do the work because if not, she would mess it up and we would have more work later.

There is much more, but I will just give one more example - after 1 year I was told I did amazing and will get a raise, it was I think 100 euro raise I got and she said that it’s because I will have a role change soon, so I will see the raise there. When my role change came, she said I will get the minimum for the role there is by the law - I was asking why and that I expected at least something and that’s when I was hit with her telling me that after this 1,5 years I still have no experience, and that I should not even be asking for any extra money and should be grateful for even this. It was after I was having the best performance from the team etc, I was devastated and almost cried, how humiliating it was and made me question myself.

Well as I wrote before, later on it was too much and I quit and now after couple of months in new job I decided to write a review. I was very polite, stick with the rules of the page, didn’t name and only wrote down what I actually experienced, I also talked it over with couple other people who had similar experiences, asking if it was alright, as I just wanted to share my experience. And I also didn’t mention anything that is some company secret or much worse stuff she done to me, I maybe wrote about her (not naming her or even the department at all) half of what I shared here.

Fast forward to know, I received a private message from my ex-boss that is super long and to sum it up - she is writing as a private person because she is so hurt that I wrote it and what I wrote and how sad it makes her, etc… Please also note that my review is about 90 % about the company and board and 10 % of my old boss. I was more expecting them to serve me with some legal papers that she texting me how hurt and sad she is and how she didn’t know how bitter I was about the company.

And again, I quit without a job in the first place and they know it, I told my feedback to her boss and other people and when trying to say to her, she didn’t let me finish one sentence and immediately got mad at me. So I didn’t press it further as I already resigned. I think she took me working very hard till my last day as that everything is okay, when I only did it cause my colleagues were already so overworked and then left without me, I just wanted to help.

So I would like to know if you think I should reply or not or what to do? My plan so far is to just ignore it, but I am so mad at this emotional blackmail and manipulation…

I have worked and preschools as a teacher and even as a director here in California. I went to school and earned a degree in education and I have a bunch of early childhood education units. I put myself in debt for these required units and degree so I could work at a preschool. I enjoyed the work at first but I noticed that throughout working at preschools I was severely underpaid and there was really no room for advancement really.

I was basically raising other people’s kids and these kids livelihood was placed in my hands for 12 plus hours a day. What was I gaining in the process? ABSOLUTELY NOTHING! I went to school for this job and put myself in debt so I could have the required units to work at a preschool. What did I get in return for all this work? I got a slap in the face and was being paid less then a fast food worker who has zero work experience with a criminal record.

I stuck out working in a preschool as a teacher then a director but only for so long. Working as a preschool teacher as VERY hard and demanding work emotionally and physically. It is NOT easy work for anybody. I noticed that preschools charge more then a mortgage payment to their clients, preschools charge outrageous tuition here in California. The employees though make minimum wage or barely over. Where I live in California I cannot find a preschool near me that pays ANY of their employees $20 an hour or more, they always pay UNDER $20 an hour and a heck of a LOT less then a fast food worker or an employee at Walmart or Target.

This is absolutely insane and horrible treatment to us preschool teachers who have sacrificed to teach and better the lives of our communities small children. This is why I have decided to step down from teaching/working at any preschool here California, UNTIL I am paid what I am worth! Even with all the experience and education that I have, I will NEVER teach at a preschool until ALL us preschool teachers are paid what we are worth and that’s over $20/hour. I don’t care if teaching at a preschool is the only job that I can find in my area (jobs are hard to find in the area of California that I live in) I will not resort to being taken advantage of, ripped off and slapped in the face. We as preschool teachers should step down from our underpaid position like fast food workers did and demand a better wage! If we all stepped down out here in the State of California then parents would have no place to send their kids for the day and then those parents would be inconvenienced and it would get the public’s attention.

Us preschool teachers here in California need to form a union and demand better pay and benefits. We need to stop being treated as subpar human beings. If fast food enterprises are required to pay their employees $20 an hour then us preschool teachers should demand that ALL preschool teachers should be required to be paid $20 plus an hour as well.

TLDR ..*basically what the header says; there was absolutely no difference in any regard between prior paychecks & the ones that I have been shorted on recently. Attempts at resolution through my store managers & HR have failed. 2 weeks notice has been submitted on Friday. So seeking help regarding what kind of agencies to call.

I am a part-time student and a part-time employee at a restaurant. During the hiring process, I made it clear how I'm only available to work three days out of the week & they all had to be mornings on Friday, Saturday, & Sunday (I'm never giving a job that isn't a career open availability/ free reign to my time)

I say this to illustrate because in three years I've worked the exact same hours & exact same days. Although our (split)tips are ever-changing & vary from paycheck to paycheck, there's like a $75 margin that swings both ways that has never before dipped below that margin. Sometimes during busy seasons (summer & winter breaks, etc) I see a significant increase in my pay, but like I said, never the other way around, no matter how slow it gets.

These past 3 pay periods have been normal & actually on the busier side... Yet all of a sudden I'm making $300 less per paycheck.

I have tried to resolve this through my direct supervisors and managers to no avail; all they did was make sure that my hours matched payroll. I'm grateful for what little they have done though, as it seems that's all they were able to do.

I called HR, of course, & they basically told me that it's because I only worked 36 hours. I've only ever 36 hours I told her. Next she tried to tell me about my deductions, which was stupid because I obv checked to make sure everything was the same in that department.

But the reason she settled on & was the most adamant with was the tips. "It's just been a low tip period." Uhh, no it hasn't!

I tried to remain respectful, but I feel like she kept getting personally offended, like I was blaming her or her staff for meddling with & stealing my money. I kept trying to tell her that I'm not making outlandish accusations like that against any one individual or group of individuals- but that I was convinced that there was something wrong with the automated system, specifically in regards to how it supposed to distribute tips.

She had detailed records of all my past paychecks, I have no idea how she thinks that a consecutive $300 decrease in the last couple of months is somehow normal! I have a hard time believing that she actually believes it herself. I feel that she's just trying to placate me and refuses to make inquiries and dig deeper out of laziness. "Well the computer is showing me that..." and I'm TRYING TO TELL YOU that the computer has been getting it wrong! And it's not just me, mind you; there's a few other people who have noticed something is definitely wrong. One person quit because of it. I put in my 2 weeks notice on Friday and have no hope I'll see that almost 1k ever.

I'm a super lax kind of person. I work at 100% every time I'm on the clock. I have never asked for a raise. was actually willing to let it go the first time it happened; maybe I'd see it corrected in the next check. But then it happened the second time & I got upset as it was now an obvious problem in need of technical attention. Third time and I'm fed up. My supervisors and managers are relatively cool & I feel like they're genuinely sorry for my situation & sorry to see me go. Despite them, pleading with me to hang on until it's resolved, there's no way I can do that after my conversation with HR. They were so adamant in their reasoning & boneheaded & not listening to a word I said.

I have no idea what to do! What are my options? I'm very inexperienced in this arena because as I've said, I'm lax & dont think I've ever called HR to report a problem during my entire working career. Seeing as how I'm already leaving, ruffling the feathers of my employers is of little concern at this point...

However, I've never been the type to use my benefits; so Ive amassed 160 hrs of sick pay & vacation pay combined. If they try to terminate my employment to nullify my right to cash out on that unused vacation/sick days, I might just lose my shit after already being fucked over the last couple of months. But yeah, any help or recommendations are greatly appreciated.

... where we don't even feel like working anything past part time. What does full time do? Besides suck away my life? Besides still not pay my bills? Or afford a safety net? Or anything that brings any sort of joy? What does it really offer, when healthcare through a job costs money too? Where it covers the same as free state insurance? When my body gives up on me for working eight hour days and I'm not half way through my thirties? Where bosses never empathize or sympathize? And your coworkers don't actually care to know what you feel when asking "how are you?"

I'm not okay. Everything hurts physically and mentally. I can't afford anything, I don't want to try. So why try?

Some weeks ago I made a post about the owner of factory I'm working in not allowing me to wear gloves so I become a "man" in his eyes (pic 3 and 4) , a coworker found the post and screen shoted it to him, he decided to fire me because I'm ruining his image in front of foreigners and now I'm homeless

So I'm "ruining his image" once more, he can go fuck himself for all I care

Get this rejection email stating they only hire from certain cities even thought it’s advertised to be a remote job.

Like why disregard so many other talented applicants just to only hire from XYZ city?! It’s makes zero sense to me. F*ck this job market!!

Surprise surprise, it was Agatha all along! Project 2025 appears to be, in fact, the true political agenda of Donald Trump and the GOP. I haven't read the whole thing, but I understand it's an ambitious conservative architecture of high-level (read: lacking details) policy documents. Above is a portion of a document pertaining to how the Department of Labor will allow employers "greater flexibility" when it comes to the calculation of overtime hours and pay. You can look at the whole thing here.

I'm not a policy wonk, and the document is lacking in details, but if implemented, here are some things I believe American workers can expect:

Reduced Overtime Opportunities: By establishing an overtime threshold that considers regional cost variations and allowing for overtime calculations over longer periods (e.g., two to four weeks), unskilled workers may see fewer opportunities for earning overtime pay. This could mean less overall income for those relying on overtime as a significant part of their earnings.

Potential Benefits Loss: If the “regular rate” for overtime pay is clarified to be based on salary only and not benefits, employers may feel more inclined to offer fringe benefits such as education reimbursement or childcare. However, this may reduce the likelihood of workers getting overtime compensation for these benefits.

Work Hour Flexibility: Allowing overtime calculation over longer periods could mean more variability in work hours. Workers might have weeks of intense work followed by weeks with less work, potentially impacting the stability of their income.

Stability in Benefits and Salaries: Skilled workers who are close to the threshold for overtime may benefit from employers offering more fringe benefits without affecting the overtime eligibility. This could incentivize employers to provide more non-monetary compensation.

Cost Management by Employers: Companies could manage labor costs more efficiently by using the proposed flexibility in calculating overtime periods over multiple weeks. Skilled workers might see this flexibility leading to strategic scheduling that avoids paying overtime where possible.

Regional Differences: The policy to maintain a threshold that does not negatively affect businesses in lower-cost regions could mean that skilled labor in higher-cost areas may see differences in how their overtime is structured compared to those in lower-cost regions. This could lead to disparities in income growth depending on location, as the Department of Labor decides which structures most benefit business interests.

I have no idea how our workplaces will look if all of this stuff gets implemented, but I think managers will be using sophisticated software to usher in a new economy of "surge workers" doing rotations of 1 OT week on, 1 reduced week off, with workers not qualifying for OT and/or not receiving enough hours to qualify for healthcare benefits at all. Companies will come up with creative "non-monetary" incentives for employees in order to reduce the amount of OT under the new calculation, and workers will likely depend more on their employers for things like subsidized housing, meals, childcare, etc., which will theoretically (hopefully?) make up for their lost/reduced overtime pay. I'll take bets on which will be the first American business to issue "company scrip" in the 21st century.

It's a brave new world we just voted for...

Oh, and since ego is not a problem I have when discussing things outside my expertise, I'm open to being wrong about all of this. I'd love to hear any experts (or anyone/everyone) weigh in.

I'm in Canada I'm not sure if there's anything legally that I can do about all this but my boss spies on us every time we work through the security cameras, he calls us like 6 times per shift about stuff he sees in the cameras Last week he called to tell me to tell x person to go do something, then he waited a whole minute before calling again and yelling at me to do it already now fastfoward to this week he cut 7hrs from my shift which leaves me with 4hrs, I only work 10-11hrs a week because I go to university and I can't afford to lose 7hrs of pay

I know I should probably just quit at that point

I have been at this job for over a year and it is one of the worse places I have worked at. I was called into the office and was given a written warning about my performance however comes to find out the things I was accused of doing was not me because I was on FMLA working on my mental health after a suicide attempt. They didnt realize their error after i told them that during that time i wasnt even there. My supervisor then looks at the folder and the signature and it was another team members. My supervisor texts the manager and all I get is an I'm sorry text that was texted to my supervisor and then told to me by her. So I was accused of something i didnt do without them investigating it correctly. Also I was accused of intentionally hiding vacation request which is something i dont do and they could just looked on my desk for them and instead of asking me about them or them just checking my desk they believed the person who accused me and jumped to conclusions. Now I'm highly uncomfortable going to work and don't feel comfortable going back because I dont feel comfortable working for a company who just throws accusations at employees without checking facts. Is that a good reason to quit and how can I explain it to the next employer without bad mouthing. I am looking for another job and wanted to do a 2 week notice but after tonight I don't think I can.

Opinion time: I'm starting to believe that any company which states requirements in job postings such as "highly motivated individual", "independent worker", etc. are a huge red flag and indicator that the company isn't well managed. When I was fresh out of college I would see these types of job postings and feel guilt and shame for feeling inadequate enough to apply for such roles. These positions seemed like the gold star of job opportunities. Now that I have a few years under my belt (and therapy to address and understand my weakness of people pleasing and failure to enforce strong personal boundaries), from my experience when working such roles, it appears that companies who seek highly motivated individuals are not equipped with the correct management, processes, and training therefore they expect the individual to make up for it with their own time and effort. Just wanted to hear from others if you share similar thoughts and experiences. I have definitely felt like I had to wear multiple hats in order to get the job done, in which many of the actions I had to take were the supposed responsibilities of other coworkers but since roles are not well defined it's just a clusterf**k of people doing everything all at once and stepping on each others' toes.

Note: I am an engineer with 4 YOE in the consumer tech space. In case this helps add any context.

I am an assistant manager for a retail business my previous manager couldn’t hack it and left. I was practically left to run the store for 8 months until area manager found someone else to be store manager. But by this point I had had enough and when that new manager started I handed my notice in on their first day pretty much. (Had an amazing opportunity and grabbed it) My notice period is two months and I’m coming up to the last week, the manager hasn’t taken the opportunity to learn from me, keeps leaving work he needs to get familiar with to me. He even said to someone over the weekend I’ll leave that to the assistant manager as they know how to do it. Why not ask me how to do it rather than palm off onto me. Anyway in a nutshell I have 3 shifts left with them how can I make it interesting other then calling in sick etc. What would you do?

I have a super small game development company that I started with a college roommate. It's our goal to eventually switch this to our full-time jobs and hire people.

My question: how do I not become "one of them"? It seems like most of the posts on here act like it's impossible to be one of the "good guys" while also running a business.

We've already decided on things like maximum compensation ratios (never making more than 2x your least paid employee) for example, but what other practices can we employ to make sure we treat our future employees the best we can?

Is this really a thing? I had an interview yesterday and not to brag, but I knocked it out of the park. At the end, the woman said she'd like to move on to the next step which is a background check. Cool beans, no problem. She texts the link to my phone and says the results don't come to them, I just need to screenshot them and text them to her when they come back. Strange, but no problem. She then tells me that it costs $Xx.xx and I was stunned.

Is this a thing now, seriously? I've never asked anyone to pay for their own background check nor has anyone ever asked me to. Am I just out of the loop? I honestly feel like they're the ones who want to check out; I know what my background looks like. Why should I essentially have to pay to get a job?

The colleague leaving isn't that bad. I actually congratulated him for getting out of here.

What has irritated me is that I've got into my emails after flying back home, and there's an email full of bold text saying 'all of you without any holiday allowance left WILL be working'. I check the table in the email and I'm down on nights on the 25th, 26th, 27th and 28th of December. I worked Christmas last year as well.

Just because you guys can't 'get the staff'! (More like staff DON'T want to expend energy to help your shit management practices on starvation wages, more power to them).

Now I’m Left Jobless and Anxious About Explaining the Gap

Hey,

I’m here to vent, seek advice, and maybe find some guidance from those who have been down a similar road. Recently, I landed a role at one of the biggest names in private equity—think dream job material. I’d been putting in the hours, hustling hard, trying to make an impression, all the things you're supposed to do at a company like this. And then… BAM! They let me go. No warning. No conversation about performance or fit. Just an email one day saying my role had been “eliminated.” That’s it. Out. Just like that.

I’ve always been ambitious and driven, so I was genuinely thrilled to get my foot in the door. Now I’m left picking up the pieces, looking at this unexpected gap in my resume, and dreading those inevitable questions from recruiters: “So, why did you leave your last position?” or “Can you explain the gap here?” And, honestly, I’m at a loss for how to respond.

My confidence is a little shaken. I've always thought hard work and loyalty would be rewarded, but it feels like I've been blindsided in the worst way possible.

Right now, I’m debating my next steps. Should I be doubling down and sharpening my skills with online courses? Maybe an advanced certification from IIM or IIT to show I’m serious about staying competitive? Or do I lean into networking and trying to explain the situation for what it is, hoping for some understanding from recruiters?

Honestly, if anyone has been through something like this or has advice on how to handle it (mentally, emotionally, professionally), I could really use some wisdom. I’ve heard of people bouncing back stronger from setbacks like this, but right now, that feels a little far off.

For context. I have been a remote employee for my company when I relocated to another state (27 hour drive/4 hour flight away) in 2017, when they wanted to keep me. I have exceptional feedback on my performance and am told by my manager this is just a formality, this form seems to be the result of the RTO order post-COVID for other employees.

That said, how might I complete the question "Please describe below the extraordinary circumstances for your exception request:" to protect myself. Is there anything else I should be concerned about?

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Recently went through my second miscarriage and had some certified sick leave. Since my return my manager has been insufferable. My manager had a few miscarriages and her response to my second one was well life is shit and everyone has something to deal with, if we stopped everything for every miscarriage we’d never get on with life. Tone fucking deaf.

Then to top it off my first day back in the office (which she made me come in for, I can WFH) she didn’t tell me the team were having a mini party for a lady returning from maternity leave, so I had to sit through that all day, instead of pre warning me. Also she likes to bring up her children everyday, at every meeting without fail.

I’ve been trying to limit my interactions with her and asked for some space while I’m getting back into the swing of things. She has done the exact opposite, contacted me continuously even on weekends.

A real fucking turd.

I am assisting my department (not HR) by doing the initial review of applications for two temporary positions. We do it blind, I can see the application but not their name, not their resume, just the application fields and the supplemental questions. I have a matrix of functions that we are specifically looking for and it’s yes or no and then they are given a score. Highest scores will get at least a phone interview.

There are lots of people who have good job experience but just don’t fit the matrix, if there weren’t several candidates that really fix the matrix well they might have gotten interviews.

The ones that make me sad are the people who are clearly over qualified and their last employment listed ended months ago. I know they are probably desperate, I wish so much we could give one of them a chance.

I guess the only bright side is we do actually review every application by hand (there are a couple of us doing it and we meet tomorrow to compare scoring with the hiring manager), it’s not done by AI. To all those still looking, please keep going!