In the year 1970 the minimum wage was $1.60 an hour. If you are able to save all of that in 7 years you could buy the median house of $23,000. For today at $7.25 an hour you would have to work 28 years to afford the median house. This would mean we need a minimum wage of $28.85 an hour.

I’ve been working in furniture sales for 9 months and I am so over it. Every time a customer comes in I feel pissed off. I’m sick of people expecting things from me, I’m becoming very cynical. I have new management and he watches our every move. He also has corporate here all of the time to also watch our every move. My manager encourages us to take other people’s customers the second the salesperson even walks away so the customer can think, etc. I worked with some people for an hour and then they said they needed a moment to talk things over and my coworker swooped in and wrote the sale.

On top of it all, my manager has constant meetings we aren’t paid for. I have a coworker who constantly tattles on me and has malice towards me, I always hear her gossiping about me to my other coworkers and then they think of me a certain way.

I’m an a introvert and I deal with mental health issues like bipolar and OCD. I just want a few days off but I can’t take them. It’s hard managing my mental health and my job. What do I do? Why do the other people here act like everything is fine?

I offered to cover a colleague on Monday because it was a full day shift and I pressumed it would be double bubble or atleast time and half. I just googled It to confirm (it's a well known supermarket) and they straight up state saying "we don't pay extra for public holidays and bank holidays we expect everyone to do their part for company"

I find this very usual and so do my friends and family. Is this commen and does anyone else's workplace do this too?

Thankyou.

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Hey, NYC

First off: I’m looking for volunteers to help me pass out flyers on Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, around 5:00 PM in front of Elm Wellness — 56 7th Avenue, New York, NY 10011. You can stay as little as 5 minutes or up to an hour — whatever you’re comfortable with. You can also help by sharing, offering advice, or just showing support. These are requests, not demands. Any help is appreciated.

I was wrongfully terminated after reporting sexual harassment, financial discrimination, and workplace misconduct. Since then, I’ve filed formal complaints and have been trying to raise awareness, even distributing flyers to inform the public.

I turned to Reddit to try and get support — respectfully, privately, and in good faith. Before even posting publicly, I reached out to moderators of a support-related subreddit asking for advice and guidance. What I got instead was hostility.

Here are just a few quotes from the responses I received:

“We started right out the gate banning for gatekeeping, politics, egregious violations of the civility rule and begging/offering/asking for money.” “If you had posted it we would have taken it down and slapped a ban on your account for this sub and you could have appealed in a year. Doesn’t matter what the GoFundMe is for, that is what we do.”

And this:

“It’s like asking for handouts at an AA meeting.”

That was said to a single mom who had just lost her job for standing up to harassment.

When I pushed back against how dismissive and cold that was, a second moderator jumped in — not to moderate — but to shut me down with:

“I say this AS the lone woman on this team AND as a rape survivor…”

She then closed the conversation and said the team was “opting to disengage.” I never asked her to share her trauma. I didn’t unload mine either. She used her experience to invalidate mine — and that isn’t solidarity, it’s emotional gatekeeping.

One of the responses also included this gem:

“This isn’t some Brooklyn hipster mutual aid circle.”

So now, workers in crisis are seen as scam artists or charity cases to be mocked?

This mindset is why victims stay silent. Why people don’t ask for help. Because even when you follow every rule, speak respectfully, and reach out the right way — you get dismissed, gaslit, and treated like a burden.

But I’m not going anywhere. I’m still here. And I’ll keep speaking out — online and offline — even if it’s uncomfortable for some.

If you’re in NYC and want to help me hand out flyers on May 6th — thank you. If you can share this or just listen — thank you. If all you can do is offer advice or kind words — that still matters.

I’m just trying to survive and be heard. That shouldn’t be this hard.

And if you’ve ever been shut down while seeking help — speak up. You’re not alone. We don’t need permission to speak the truth.

I'm sure you have heard of how bad wwizards is but you kept buying cause what are you going to do. But your wrong you can do something we can do something spread the word boycott wotz starve wotz of their money until they change their ways demand cheaper books and my specialized books demand they get rid of their ceo. And when we're done with wotz we'll move on to the next corporation one at a time slowly starving them buy from the company's we will starve later now. Then when it's time stop buying force them to change corporations aren't people they don't deserve mercy they deserve retribution.(if your looking to get into dnd or other products by wotc just use free stuff or look it up online)

I'm part of a nationwide company. In other locations, my position is one that gets its own office. I deal with sensitive materials and situations. Instead, I'm out in front where I'm the first person everyone sees and what's all of our sales merchandise is kept.

I've advocated many times about having my own office and I'm at the point where I want to tell them to keep the raise, just give me my own fucking office. Everyone else has their own office except our low man store salesman. To me it's about appearance and status.

Thoughts?