‘They’re showing us their contempt’: Bosses cut employee bonuses by 90% without warning, claim it reflects the quality of their work

Bonuses are not an incredibly reliable way to make income. They should be like extra credit. You don’t need it to survive, but it’s nice when you get it. It’s a way for employers to show a little extra recognition to their employees. It becomes a problem, then, when employers set up a pattern of …
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Stingy businessman catches heat after complaining ‘unskilled labor’ costs $32 an hour: ‘If it was so unskilled, you’d do it yourself’

More often than not, a job well done comes at a price. If it’s something that you’re doing yourself, this comes in the form of your time and concentration but if you choose to outsource, it is highly likely that you are going to have to part with some cold hard cash. While everybody loves …
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Boss admits to wage theft when explaining time clocks, costs employee hundreds of dollars: ‘It serves no other purpose except to scam workers’

The time clock can be a funny thing.  We have more precise ways to keep track of our working hours than ever, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we get compensated for them. The system of rounding your hours up and down can be so confusing that it takes you right back to learning decimals in …
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‘Are they insane?’: Employee understandably turns down $2.50 job, employer wants ‘to talk’

The best thing about jobs is that they pay money. That’s kind of the whole gig. Sure, there might be some jobs we’d be willing to do for free, like playing with our amateur garage band at the local pub, cleaning up our grandmother’s yard, or helping a friend move (unhappily, but I’ll do it.) …
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‘They cheated him out of $377’: Son quits job at father’s company after being conned out of wages

We humans can tough it out through a lot. We suffer pain, heartbreak, and loss every day. But if there’s one thing we don’t tolerate, it’s messing with our money. Fool me all you may, but do not deprive me of what I am owed. It’s decency at its most basic level. On that note, …
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The Best Low Effort Jobs That Have the Highest Salaries, According to People on Reddit

If there’s one thing that most employees would like out of their job, it’s to be paid more. The costs of living keep on rising while a lot of salaries end up standing still. It can feel like the easiest way out of this predicament would be to find a role that has a handsome …
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‘I quit the company’: Employee breaks employment contract; boss refuses to pay them wages amounting to $10,000 as a result

Our circumstances often change, as life throws all kinds of hurdles at us, varying in their severity. In this case, OP was working as a medical professional, and their spouse got a new job in another state, meaning that OP would have to move with them. According to OP’s boss, they were breaking their employment …
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«Fast food pays more’: People Debate Whether $15.50/hr Remote Job Pays Enough Money

Money: it’s the main reason that most of us do the jobs that we do, yet it’s not always easy to talk about. Over the past few years, persistent calls to raise the minimum wage and for employers to acknowledge the rising cost of living with their salaries has made some of us a lot …
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Employee Exposes Shady Boss Who Cheated Workers Out of Years of Benefits

If you haven’t noticed, there’s an epidemic of horrible bosses scamming their employees out of benefits, wages, and precious time. It’s almost as if the managerial class as a whole is incentivized to rip off the working class as much as possible. How else is your boss supposed to become filthy rich? That money has …
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Enlightening Thread Explains Why Most Companies Don’t Like Pay Transparency

Love it, hate it, or so used to clocking in you can’t imagine anything different, the bottom line is that almost all of us are doing our jobs for the money. We’ve all got bills to pay, and besides that, we want a quality of life, too. As it stands, a lot of the nice …
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