u/Obsidian-Dive

My manager commits wage theft against staff. We have reported this to higher ups but nothing has been done and no back pay issued. This has happened multiple times, once even putting employees in danger due to chemical exposure. How to handle it going further? What are my options?

Examples include employees having to stay late without compensation. Asking employees to come in or saying they’ll be paid overtime for covering shifts and then refusing to pay them either for the full day or only at regular pay.

Work at JBMDL btw if relevant.

I (23f) have had little luck. I moved to Nj 2 years ago and have made (1) a friend. She’s a total flake tho. I can barely ever get to talk to hangout with her. It’s so hard. I go to school online and work 2 jobs and I’ve tried to make friends at both places and people are nice but not kind if that makes sense? No one wants to hangout. I had friend at the last place I lived and I only lived there 4 years. In those 4 years I made a fantastic group of friends but now after moving they dont text much or hangout with each other anymore after I left.

I’m lonely. I need some friends. I am married but I need girls to hangout with. 😅

Where do you guys hangout? What’s the best way to meet people?

I (23f) babysit often and hear about the average life of motherhood and it just sounds so hard. There’s so much labor. The idea of always having to clean up after everyone, plan every thing, do everything, birth and take care of everyone. Wake up at 6 everyday. No real rest. It just sounds like so much labor. And the more I babysit the more it just feels like a job and now when I hangout with kids off the clock it just feels like unpaid labor and the idea of spending 20 years of my life like that sounds awful. And I used to love kids and I still do like them and I like playing with them and whatever but I also like giving them back to their parents. It just all sounds so hard. Moms usually are always smiling when they talk about their kids and even their workload. But the pressure of it all makes me want to cry or throw up. And I feel like everyone in my life is really encouraging me to have kids and the more I think about it the more I’m terrified. I mean I’m terrified of pregnancy and birth anyways but still. I think about how having a family sounds nice like game nights and things. I think about how I would parent. But not having an off switch or down time… it just sounds like you stretch yourself so thin. I just don’t know.

I’m no poet, but I want to write something for my friend. I have a koi fish art piece for her as a small gift. She’s going through a hard time and I just want to give her something kind.

If a koi fish represents wisdom and love then when you see its fins make ripples from above, You’ll know you’re a person well loved.

If the lily leaf and lotus represent peace and grace, then may flowers take root in the saddest parts of you. Make space make space! So, when you bloom, may serenity take its place within you.

Hey! I am trying to hang curtains in my home for the first time and I usually have a family member to do this for me, but I have moved a distance from home. Anyways I am hanging some curtains and when I was drilling I started hearing a click or tick sound? The screw went in abt half way (1.5 inch screw) hit resistance, I pushed on thinking it was a stud, it help my screw but the click sound scared me and I stopped immediately.

It’s not near any plumbing and the electrical I believe to be on the opposite side of the room? The switch and thermostat are on the other side of the room. There is a outlet on an adjacent wall. There is a floor heater? But it wouldn’t make sense for that wiring to run up the window away from the direction of the thermostat and around?

Just want to confirm that I’m hitting wood before continuing. This is my first time hanging something on my own. Sorry if this is silly. Thank you.

I did try to google the sound on my own but couldn’t find any useful information.

Edit: Solved! My torque was too low and had to change the setting from 1 to 16. Thank you.

I don’t know if I’m just having a hard week or what. I have gotten my shift for wrong twice this week. I caught my toast on fire TWICE. I was so worried I left the stove on this morning that I took an early lunch to make sure I hadn’t burned my house down. I hadn’t but still. I have so many things I need to do like clean and work on my final assignment for school and I just am procrastinating and dreading both.

I’m having a hard time because I just don’t understand why it’s so hard for me. I know it’s adhd but I just can’t help feeling like I shouldn’t be this way. Normal people don’t check twice, write their schedule in their calendar and still somehow get it wrong. Or be a fire risk in the kitchen. I’m just so frustrated because I’m really fucking trying. And no one around me understands.