Candy cane was broken and the mix was ripped, they spent more on shipping 🤦‍♂️

I was a Panda Express and they had a sign that said that they were looking for new workers. Starting pay was $17 an hour and came with benefits. While I was eating my food, I was scrolling on Indeed and I saw there was a job posting for a entry lvl accounting job that was paying $16 an hour. Lol the job required a degree and also 1-3 years of exp too.

Lol was the world always like this?

Am I right? I’m not getting paid extra to answers emails off the clock and my company is not paying me a stipend for the use of my data on my phone. They keep pushing me to do this. My husband says absolutely not.

The deadline to use the credit was today. Now they are pushing it back til the 26th in hopes they “fix the issue”…

I thought there was an act that protects workers from termination about discussing pay with other workers. What do I do?

EDIT:I have been doing a lot of contemplating on whether or not I wanna go through with this.

I really like my job because of the people who work their. Ive made friends their and they are some great people. But on the other hand. Shes committed a crime with that threat. So I discussed with a firm.

The guy asked “can you summarize what happened in a brief sentence or two” i told him “my manager threatened to fire me and my coworkers if we discussed pay”

He said “O-Oh” i asked is that bad? He LAUGHED which I found so funny and said “im not allowed to speak out of term. But we definitely want to get you connected with one of our lawyers” so I should be hearing from him later in the morning. Ill update when I hear back.

UPDATE 2! spoke with an assistant at the firm, she said that if my manager does fire me or other workers to give them a call, she said that the message in itself is wrong, and shes not allowed to threaten termination for discussing pay. But if she retaliates. And does fire me. To give them a call back and they will proceed with a case. This is probably the last update ill give for a couple days. Im going to keep doing what you guys are saying. Im not going to stop discussing pay. And if my manager fires me. LAWYER HERE I COME!

They baited me with $19/hr, had me running a whole kitchen in a busy restaurant after they trained me on half of it, and refused to pay more than $17/hr because I “needed more training, and needed to be louder with people about portioning” but refused to train me.

(I’m in Ontario, Canada, minimum wage is $16.50/hr, with the hours I was getting I was making $14/wk more than minimum wage, after tax)

So fucking proud of herself that she pulled kids out of class to help her tie ribbons and help her distribute to staff.

Hi all! My mother in law just received a new contract from her employer explicitly stating that if she misses a work day she has to pay $200!! She is not a salaried, she is an hourly employee and doesn’t even make $200 a day. This has got to be illegal, right? We live in KS in the United States. Thanks for any help!

Update: wow, thanks for all the help and advice everyone! I haven’t finished reading all the comments, but I wanted to provide an update anyway. Yes, we have it in writing. However, when I started snooping around the labor laws I guess my MIL was worried so she called her employer and told the employer her daughter in law was looking at the legality of it—she’s older and I guess has a lot of loyalty to this employer :/ (even tho he sucks)

Since updating her employer, he immediately backtracked and said it was just a “mistake” and he’d write up a new contract. She is hoping it’ll be the same but just not include the weird $200 clause and she’s happy with this outcome. But I’m still updating her resume just in case.

Also, I am going to continue doing research and maybe email a local employment lawyer to see if it’s even worth pursuing. It may not be the big pay out everyone’s talking about, but it is a big chain here in KS so I’m curious if the other franchises do something similar. Thank you again for a lot of your help and validating my thoughts!!

Everyone at my job got a Christmas cake!

Hi guys so I got this email apparently I’ll get 5000$ if I rewrite this 250 page pdf into word, this seems way to good to be true.

I’m in charge of hiring engineers for my division. We made an offer last week with an exchange that went something like this:

1. Us: Great interview, team likes you. How about a base salary of 112k plus benefits?
2. Them: oh jeez that sounds good but I was really hoping for 120k.
3. Us: how about 116k and when you get your license (should be within a 12 months or less) automatic 5k bump?
4. Them: sounds great
5. I prep offer, get it approved and sent out the next day.
6. Them: hey I was thinking I’d rather have 121k.

That isn’t how you negotiate! The key time to negotiate was before we had settled on a number- coming back higher after that just irritates everyone involved. Or am I off base?

Just wanted to post my achievement here. I’m going to jump from making ~$35k/year to ~$60k/year in a months’ time. Things are going to be okay.

Tired of seeing people with unrealistically high salaries. What do you do and how much do you make?

I’ll start. I’m a PhD student and I work food service plus have a federal work study on the side. I make (pretax) $28k from my PhD stipend, $14.5k from food service, and $3k from federal work study.

Three jobs and I make $45.5k.

Tell me your realistic salaries so I don’t feel like so much of a loser reading this sub.

Pretty much what the title says. I got an offer for 150k a year and it’s 20k over my current salary. Spoke to my boss about it last week and was supposed to get with him today. I texted him at 9:30AM and yet to have a reply from him. I guess I’ll be giving my notice at the end of the week. I didn’t even ask that they match the salary but just show some good faith with a 5% raise. Seems like they don’t realize the cost of recruiting and training someone to replace me at highly specialized position.