The Corporate Fiction of my Job

[ObiWanKenobi]

As far as I know, yes.
But if a business only has 2 FT members, and will not make anyone else FT (going at great lengths to avoid it), is it not rather disingenuous to imply that such benefits are available?
Even to imply that Full-Time employment is available to misleading.

What are they going to do? Fire me? First they have to prove that it was I... OK, that should take them about 2 minutes.
Actually, first they have to find my post on this board. Or someone has to email them to go look at it. That would take... as long as it takes.
The only one of their claimed benefits I can actually agree with is the one about the quality team, which is OUR work, not theirs.

Well when you put it that way I would definitely agree that it's disingenuous. Advertising that you offer a ton of benefits that are only available to full time employee's while keeping your FT's under staffed is borderline false advertising.

 

[Janx]

See, there's something of a job shortage. You might have heard about that. It is part of why people with college educations are scrambling to work at fast food restaurants.

The job shortage problem is a regional problem. If you're in the right industry and right region and take a hard look at the last 10 years, you'd be pressed to say there was a recession.

I know people in crappy jobs who can't get out of them, I won't be disingenuous to deny that it is hard getting to the good stuff.

But it is also easy. Pick a field that is actually profitable. English major and the like is not a profitable degree. Now MOVE to where the jobs are. Houston. Dallas. Austin. North Dakota's tar sand operations. Make money. Get experience. Then move to where you really want when you have the street cred to do your skilled job out there because of your past experience.

My young hippy friend managed to get himself back here from CA so he could work to make enough money to fix his car (which he left in CA). if an out of work young hippy without a car can do it, so can anybody. He's never been unable to find a new job and he doesn't have a college degree. he's worked oil field or technician jobs and even restaurants and ski resorts.

I moved 1500 miles from home for my first job out of college. the hardest part is moving, and the biggest holding a body back is themselves.



The west was won because folks left where they were.

Never work food service or retail. Those are crap jobs meant for the lower echelons of society. Anybody of brains and ability who is stuck in one of those jobs has been beaten down so they think that's all there is. get out. Burn it as you leave so you can't ever go back.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Nice theory. Overlooks several factors.
1: I have plenty of job experience in graphics. Sadly, it is in publishing/printing. This is why I started learning animation. Go to Youtube and look up magellanthecat. Have a laugh or two. Problem is, now I'm trying to get into a new industry.
2: moving isn't really an option. I have real estate here. Not the kind of investment one just walks away from, and I'm not about to sell it. Texas and Dakota are definitely not places I'm even remotely willing to consider. Yes, I am limiting myself. I understand this. I am fine with it.
3: Of course I'm going to leave this job as soon as I have something else. But it is nice to have some employment on my resume that is less than 8 years ago. Funny thing: companies would rather hire someone away from an existing job than hire someone who is unemployed. Go figure. Makes no sense to me--a policy based on being totally divorced from the current situation. And the meager money the job does pay does help pay bills. Biggest problem is that it takes time away from me finishing my Dragon.

 

[sabrinathecat]

So, once again, my question is, does anyone have a similar experience of the job and the official online description being so vastly different?

 

[sabrinathecat]

Well, this is fun.
Owner decided to save costs by cutting the hours of the cooks. In order to keep the cooks on, now servers tips are being divided with the cooks, based on hours. Well, there are 5 cooks, working 8-9 hours a day, and 3-4 servers working a total of 18-20 hours a day (oh, and we're supposed to somehow cut back on that too). So, now we are effectively paying the cooks out of our tips. Two people have already quit since this started on Monday, and others are threatening to do so.
Upper management threw this decision on us with no warning, no discussion, and no consideration. None of the branch managers had any warning. Yet another capricious and arbitrary decision. I think they are just trying to play with people for entertainment value (what gets those "little people" arguing and jumping about faster than taking away their money? Maybe we can get some class warfare going).
I know I'm planning on leaving sooner now.
I don't mind doing scut work for modest pay, but I resent having my pay taken away for someone else, just because the restaurant is trying to cut costs, and some numbnuts who went to some management school in Switzerland says this is a good move.

 

[Janx]

well good luck.

And lobby your congressman. Last I heard, tippy jobs were specifically excluded from the minimum wage law. That's BS.

If I tip you at a restaurant, it is because I think YOU did a good job. Not because I am subsidizing your employer's payroll.

If paying y'all minimum wage raises the cost of eating out to be too high for most folks, that'll be OK, as I eat out too much anyway.

 

[Umbran]

And lobby your congressman. Last I heard, tippy jobs were specifically excluded from the minimum wage law.

Not quite. I quote form the US Department of Labor:

"A tipped employee engages in an occupation in which he or she customarily and regularly receives more than $30 per month in tips. An employer of a tipped employee is only required to pay $2.13 per hour in direct wages if that amount combined with the tips received at least equals the federal minimum wage. If the employee’s tips combined with the employer’s direct wages of at least $2.13 per hour do not equal the federal minimum hourly wage, the employer must make up the difference. Many states, however, require higher direct wage amounts for tipped employees."

So, an employer can drop the wages on a tipped employee, so long as they then still end up making at least minimum wage.

 

[sabrinathecat]

Yes.
The problem being, what about the slow days? What if tips suck, and tips+wages is less than minimum wage?
I found out 2 more people are leaving at the end of the month because of this.

 

[Umbran]

The problem being, what about the slow days? What if tips suck, and tips+wages is less than minimum wage?

I would expect the company has to show the hourly wage + tips meeting or beating minimum wage on average, not for each individual day.

I found out 2 more people are leaving at the end of the month because of this.

I can't say I blame them. Here's hoping the exodus leads the management to realize how horrible an idea it was.

 

[Bullgrit]

I used to work as a waiter some 25 or so years ago, (in a restaurant and a club/bar). Back then we got paid $2.01/hour. It's interesting to see the pay rate hasn't really increased much. We had to report our tips each shift -- actually write the amount on our time cards. A good server in a good restaurant can make more than minimum wage with tips.

As for working for a bad company -- get a job with a different company. It's especially easy for restaurant servers to get a better restaurant job mostly because employers don't have to pay more for tipped employees -- better tips (from better customers at a better eatery) will pay for the good work. The employer just has to treat the employee well/better. I once literally doubled my take home pay by switching to a better restaurant not two miles away from the first, (even though I liked the management better at the first).

Bullgrit