got fired over $5

got fired over

for context: i work at a small sushi restaurant. we have two ways to give tips, one being on the receipts and one tip jar on our sushi bar (which you’d think would be for the sushi chefs). BTW all of our kitchen/ sushi workers are immigrants. typically we give all the tips from the … Read more

Job market is awful

Job market is awful

Edit; thank you all for the suggestions, comments, advice, and solidarity. I cant reply to every comment but i wanted to clarify some things. Im not a baby breeding machine. We did NOT have our kids when we knew we were struggling, and PLANNED to have kids while we are dirt poor, “oh we’re so … Read more

Need advice: Coworker negotiated higher salary, HR won't budge for me

Need advice: Coworker negotiated higher salary, HR won't
budge for me

Sorry for the long post: I’ve been a part-time medical interpreter at a prestigious hospital for almost a year. My qualifications: * BA in Translation and Interpreting, MA in Spanish * 10+ years teaching languages in higher ed. institutions in Europe, Canada and the USA * 1 year medical translation experience in a hospital in … Read more

Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week

Amazon is instructing corporate staffers to spend five days a week in the office, CEO Andy Jassy wrote in a memo on Monday. The decision marks a significant shift from Amazon’s earlier return-to-work stance, which required corporate workers to be in the office at least three days a week. Now, the company is giving employees … Read more