I’m a single mother of two with no family at all and a mortgage... I stepped out on faith due to a daily 98 mile round trip commute. I went on LOA in hopes to find a position near my new home that I bought last year. It took almost 4 months and I thought I was going to have to take a big pay cut but God said no you don’t my child. I got exactly what I wanted... $30 an hour with a 15 mile commute. Praise God!!!! Thank you so much for this blessing, now I have more time to spend in my new home with my beautiful children

The store I worked for filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy and closed our store 12 hours later . We are being told that we are not entitled to our unused vacation days and pto days . Adding insult to injury we are all commissioned sales and they are not paying us our unproductive rate to help them pack up the store . What are our options ? Thanks for the advise

I have two degrees and yet can’t get a job. Why go to school and end up owing all this money to loans. I feel like it was a waste of time because most employers say they want you to have experience; therefore they end up giving someone the job that doesn’t have a degree just because experience. It makes no sense!

So we moved to California about 3 months ago. I’ve always worked, unemployment doesn’t suit me, but this is getting ridiculous. It seems like every job that calls me in for an interview is nothing but a sales pitch. I go in thinking it’s a real interview, just to be tossed in large groups of people (who thought the same thing) just to be stuck listening to yet another version of the SAME sales pitch! Seriously, in Cali it takes an hour plus to get ANYwHeRE and these people suck me into making the drive, to listen to a 2 hour presentation, to be told that the job pays nothing, they’ll give you leads and you make some ridiculous commission, but first pay for this certificate ( As they tell you it’s super easy....and online) but they don’t pay for training ; the upside however is that you can make your own schedule. Ridiculous. I need a job! How is this even legal?! Oh and don’t even get me started on unemployment agencies. I had the best interview of my life.... heard NOTHING back! I called multiple times and the agent is ALWaYs with a client, and has yet to respond. Someone please tell me how I’m supposed to find a REaL job, you know one that pays REaL money when I’m constantly being pulled by scam artists with pyramid schemes. I’ve gotten to the point where I won’t even accept the interview if 1) I can’t find any info on the company online, or 2) they can’t tell me over the phone what the job pays...

I am 58 now with a busted up back from working very hard over the years.I am old school.I have a bad knee as well.I am a good driver but do not like OTR.I like local delivery driving jobs best.It seems that the only jobs I can get is young man work.Many of these jobs hire me because they fear a law suite.I turned to temp companies with low wages but the work is much like slave work.Being diabetic does not help as well.I am not a whinner but I have about a month supply of savings left for my bills.My credit cards are being used more than ever.There must be a self employment job that I can do and make a living at.Anyone have any ideas? Thanks and I will win this fight over depression as well.

I am an Executive that has made over 6 figures for 20 years. I was pushed out of my MP/CRO position about 2 months ago. I have a headhunter, sent out resumes, been on some interviews, contacted people I know. I am 61 and still have to work. My son says I am too old to get a Real Estate License or Insurance License. It would take to long to build up clientele. My strong suits are Sales & Management in Print & Digital Media as well as Home Improvement Sales from years ago. I actually am interested in getting my CDL to lessen the stress. Some companies say they will train you and you will be making 100K your second year. Is that true? I have never been in this situation since my early 20s. I have always been confident and a great salesperson. Now, I am having to force myself out of bed. I don’t know who I am anymore. I feel like a truck hit me and I did not get the license plate number. I do believe God has put me here on my journey. What to do????

After 8 months of applying to a lot of Admin positions I finally got a job! I was so excited. It's in a great area where I wanted to work for a long time. I'm so thankful and grateful for this job. God is good always. I was down to my last of everything and owed all my credit cards and bills. Before I landed this job I was homeless due to an amazing set of circumstances that I won't go into. Now you can understand how desperate I was for a job. However, since I've gotten the job which was in March, I've moved into a new apartment, caught up on some of my bills (not all and still have a long ways to go) and even managed to start a little savings account. Herein lies the problem. I'm totally and unequivocally unhappy in this new job. The job is great and my responsibilities are challenging but manageable. I started off working for 7 people and now I work for 12 people and with the same salary which is not much. However, the problem is my colleagues. They have their "clicks" and it's very uncomfortable. If I ask for any kind of help with a program or assignment, they go to the boss and tell him that I don't know what I'm doing. I try to join conversations, to no avail. I try to show myself friendly to no avail. I'm excluded from conversations (especially non-work related) there was a company outing and I went and boy did I regret it. We weren't allowed to bring anyone so I spent the time by myself. How embarrassing. No one even talked to me. When I tried to talk to them they were polite but made it clear they weren't interested in talking to me. I was in the bathroom and overheard the other Admins talking about me saying I'm not friendly and I don't talk to them! I'm at my wits end. I didn't get a job to make friends but it would be nice to have at least 1 person in my corner. I don't know what I did or didn't do. It's so uncomfortable that I'm seriously thinking of leaving but just can't afford to. Any advice?????

I'm so frustrated when the owner of the company has no clue what I do for him. Not only do I do all of his Human Resource stuff, I also have 85% of the company that reports directly to me. I've taken on more work with no pay increase. I haven't had a raise in close to 7 years. So, now that I'm looking to leave the company to better myself and my kids lives now he is treating me like crap and jumping all over me for what other managers do wrong. I have every right to better myself. I've been working for him for 10 years. We are looking to move out of State but where we really want to go there isn't any decent paying jobs there. If anyone has any suggestions on what to do and on how to look for jobs in different states. Please let me know.

It really sucks that places do a credit check on to see if u can get the job or not. I filed bankruptcy this yr I had no choice but to file. But yet I get discriminated for it. Like oh I'm sorry life happened and had to do something I really didn't want to. I had a interview today and would have got the job but when I told them about that they said sorry we can't hire u. It really really sucks. Maybe I'm not supposed to work.

So, yes, as bad as it sounds, this actually happened. I was employed a little over a month for a hotel, (privately owned), where the working conditions were not great by any means, but I was getting more than my share of hours so I wasn't gong to complain. A little insight, I would arrive for my shift 7:30am and work straight through until 7pm most days, no breaks, no days off, no joke. On top of this, although I had completed all necessary paperwork, i.e. W4, W2, etc. I was being kept off the books. Mind you, I have no problem being paid in cash (TEMPORARILY!), but the owner & manager were being crooked, and not paying me in full for my 80+ weekly hours, and incorrectly (no overtime or time-and-a-half). The management would basically ignore my requests for a "sit down" to discuss this matter. Still, I continue to work hard as ever to show my determination and value as an employee. Now, it is late on a Saturday evening, and I am approached by a fellow coworker, an older Indian man, who barely speaks English. He proceeds to take his hand and drag it slowly across my breasts. I stepped back in shock, and realizing I am completely alone, as everyone else has left for the day hours prior. This man then takes his hand to go in for a second grab, where I promptly slapped it away. Now I'm terrified that what if he becomes violent, and began counting the minutes for him to leave. I quickly closed up and left for the day, and immediately sent a personal message to management. Thinking I would receive a reply right away, it was to my dismay that after 9 days I was left neglected and on my own to protect myself. I was paid 2 more visits of stalking and leering and personal space invaded by this creep. Upon me finally forcing a meeting with the manager, a woman, I might add, she screamed at me, (refusing to close the door and allowing all other personnel to hear), she berated me, said I was disrespectful, and said I was probably exaggerating, and then threatened to terminate me. She then proceeded to suspend me for 2 days until she decided what to do with me, since I never gave her enough of an opportunity to speak with me about the situation,(NINE DAYS HAD PASSED!!). To add insult to injury, on the third day she approaches me informing me she had spoke with the handsy offender and he said he was "only being friendly". And that because this is now an uncomfortable situation that I am being terminated of employment because I am, and I quote, "a red flag". This happened 2019 in the state of Massachusetts, in the great U.S. of A. I was treated shamefully, and blamed for unwanted advances. Oh! They also found it necessary to withhold $700+ from my hard earned pay, and gave me an envelope of only $600. Shame on me for speaking up, and btw, I was not the only woman he had done this to, he had fondled another young lady, and then attempted to strike another female employee with a closed fist TWICE.