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Off Topic / Re: What is the best soda?

« on: February 08, 2016, 07:53:53 PM »

it's true

every time someone drinks dr pepper, a man's significant other sleeps with someone else

That's why we drink so much Dr Pepper. One of these times, we're bound to be the "someone else".

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Off Topic / Re: Blogland + rant - I think my GM is retaliating against me for taking another job

« on: February 08, 2016, 07:52:27 PM »

there's a better option: email hardees, as in the big guys.
http://www.hardees.com/contact
i'm sure they'll be pleased to hear one of their managers is paying you 15 cents below minimum wage.

Not a bad idea, but if I get my manager in trouble, I'm sure I'll be in trouble with her.

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Off Topic / Re: how should I mentally prepare to lose the teeth of wisdom

« on: February 08, 2016, 04:34:35 PM »

Know that you will get some fun drugs to experience. Now I don't condone drug use, but if I were getting my wisdom teeth pulled, then I'd look forward to the drugs that I'd get to take.

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Off Topic / Re: Blogland + rant - I think my GM is retaliating against me for taking another job

« on: February 08, 2016, 04:32:51 PM »

They literally can't pay you below minimum wage. You need to take action on that.

Okay, but if I sue Hardee's then not only do I have to pay court expenses so I can sue over missing out on a maximum gross pay of $1/day, but I'll be guaranteed to lose the job.

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Off Topic / Re: Blogland + rant - I think my GM is retaliating against me for taking another job

« on: February 08, 2016, 04:06:57 PM »

Quit Hardees. Don't tolerate abuse from them when you have another option literally already set up for you.

Just don't even show up the first day of the week, lol. That'll teach the manager a lesson.

Tempting, but getting fired is not going to look good when applying to jobs down the road in comparison to a resignation. I'm guessing most people won't try to contact a Hardee's as a character evaluation or to check up on how truthful my other applications are, but I don't want to take the risk.

15 cents per hour what the forget

paying me 15 cents/hour UNDER minimum wage

The bolded is pretty important. I make $7.50/hour, but the state minimum wage is $7.65.

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Off Topic / Re: What is the best soda?

« on: February 08, 2016, 04:04:12 PM »

All people who like diet soda are going to die out by process of natural selection due to their bad taste. They're likely to mistake sewage for something appropriate to consume.

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Off Topic / Re: Blogland + rant - I think my GM is retaliating against me for taking another job

« on: February 08, 2016, 03:32:24 PM »

Well, Walgreens is paying more and seems like a less hostile environment given they were flexible with your Hardee's schedule. Is it possible to drop Hardee's and get more hours at Walgreens?

do the math and see if it's better to work at walgreens by itself or hardee's by itself

This was my first idea. After talking to Walgreens, they said that there isn't really room on the schedule to give me more hours. I also don't know specifically how long I will work there per day yet, but I'm scheduled for 4:00PM Thursday and Friday so I'm thinking until 10. Gross pay there will come out to $102 for this week if my hunch is correct. If I'm not correct, it won't vary by too much. Hardee's will come out to $281.25, so they take the cake for what pays more for this specific week.

Another pro (as well as a con) for Hardee's are my coworkers. A majority of them are truly awesome people who I love being around. It's almost like the high school that I never had, except that I don't do anything with them outside work. There are also the coworkers that I hate working with, but there aren't many of those. Most of the people I don't like just outright hate me or else act like total douches to me, but in terms of coworkers, I'm inclined to lean towards Hardee's since I don't know anyone besides the assistant manager at Walgreens.

it's time to have a little 'talk' with her

This is what my mom suggested after I discussed it with her, but this idea completely freaks me out due to the nature of my unpredictable general manager. Before I took the second job, she was always acting funny and messing with me and making jokes. The last couple days however, there seems to be a different vibe when I'm around her. She's not being openly hostile or anything, but she's not really socializing with me either.

I'd quit hardees anyway. if walgreens is paying more then I'm sure you'll eventually be able to get the hours you need from them and have more money than you got from hardees
I wouldn't wanna work under someone like that, especially if there was another option

Also a possible option, but losing pay is something that I simply cannot afford right now. Although I have a beefy savings account that I can tap into at any time, I'm also dealing with my car (you know about that lol) on a daily basis, paying $65/month on insurance, 150 or so in gas, and a few other amounts on other necessities (phone, food on days where I can't get home, etc).

But otherwise, talk to your GM about the new hours.
Are you contracted for a set amount of hours?

I'm set as a part-time worker, but she knows that I'm also a college student and is giving vibes that she's anything but happy with me taking another job. I'm afraid that if I bring it up with her that I need less hours, she'll think I'm doing it to get more hours over at Walgreens and I could get laid off as soon as the next batch of new hires are experienced enough to take my place.

3)Settle this in court.

lol
Another reason that I'm not attached to Hardee's is that after nearly eight months of working there, they're somehow getting away with paying me 15 cents/hour UNDER minimum wage, never given me any sort of raise or promotion, and the most I get is a pat on the back for a job well done before collapsing in bed at home only to be faced with a mountain of homework.

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Off Topic / Blogland + rant - I think my GM is retaliating against me for taking another job

« on: February 08, 2016, 03:04:56 PM »

GM = general manager for you unemployed jr. high and high school kiddies

As some of you know from a couple weeks ago, I landed a job at Walgreens because my Hardee's job was barely giving me any hours at all (5-10 hours a week). I was planning to work both jobs  part-time which, from the looks of my Walgreens hiring conditions and my expectation of Hardee's hours, appeared to add up to approximately 25 hours a week.

Backstory: I've worked at Hardee's since June 2015 with a rough average of 20 hours a week (frequent variances) but the store recently got chewed out by the DM (district manager) and had to cut hours on people, hence the sudden decline in my hours. By coincidence, right when my hours were docked I got the call from Walgreens requesting an interview in response to an application I sent in May 2015 (~8 months wait...?). I went to the interview and got the job on the condition that I would work weekends for Walgreens and a few weekdays at Hardee's, so I went and talked to my GM about it. She was getting all antsy about me saying that they wanted me weekends because that's when I worked the most hours at Hardee's, so I told her that I'd see if I could work something out.

I did work something out. I managed to pull some strings with Walgreens so that they would work me weekdays and let Hardee's have as many weekends as they wanted. I even told Hardee's that they could put me down for a couple weekdays as well. I stayed in frequent contact with Walgreens and my Hardee's GM so that they would know what days that I work and at what location.

Now we get to today: the week that I am supposed to begin my actual paid work with Walgreens. I decided to drive over to Hardee's to pick up my schedule for this week as well as to grab some discounted food before heading home. I didn't see my GM there but I saw her car parked outside. I looked at the schedule and to my dismay, she had me working 37.5 hours this week every single day only omitting the two days that I said I worked at Walgreens. I have never once worked a schedule that long in my lifetime and on top of that, never had a .5 hour either. I'm guessing that this is because 38 hours is counted as the full-time threshold and she's trying to work as hard and long as she can without letting me have full-time benefits. On top of that, I am a full-time college student with 14 active credit hours. There is literally no space for any sort of possible homework because most of my shifts start right after my final class ends.

This 37.5 hours of Hardee's plus my hours at Walgreens could be putting me somewhere near 50 hours of work this week plus 15 hours of class time plus 25 hours of commuting time plus ~45-50 hours of sleep. There are 168 hours in a week so you can see where that puts me. Saving all of my homework for Saturday morning and Sunday evening won't work, because I have deadlines this week as well as a research paper due next Monday AS WELL AS a speech to give in class this coming Wednesday.

No idea what I'm going to do now. I don't want to quit my job at Hardee's because it's my primary source of income (even with the piss poor wages). I don't want to quit Walgreens because they pay more than Hardee's ever will and I need to save money so I can move out of state next semester.

On top of that, my GM told me the other day, word for word, that, "You either have a first priority job, or you have one job." I'm feeling rather intimidated right now because I'm starting to sense some sort of aggression here. I'm supposed to be working as a part-time worker as a full-time college student with two sources of income, and she's only trying to make it harder for me out of spite.

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Forum Games / Re: YOU LAUGH YOU LOSE v666

« on: February 08, 2016, 02:33:58 PM »

Behind the jpeg, there lies a message.

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Forum Games / Re: Return to the Salty Spitoon

« on: February 08, 2016, 12:37:24 AM »

I'm a little girl and you aren't allowed to hit little girls

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Off Topic / Re: Car thread

« on: February 07, 2016, 11:05:21 PM »

hehe panthers vs broncos

Hehe more like bills and 49ers

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Off Topic / Re: Changing dominant eye?

« on: February 07, 2016, 11:04:08 PM »

Holy stuff you guys, the easiest way to find your dominant eye is literally the first result on Google.

Do the Triangle with your hands, but constantly hold your arms completely out-stretched. Keep both your eyes open and find an object like a doorknob and put it in what you think is the center of this triangle. Then close one eye and then the other. Whichever eye has it closer to the center of the triangle is your dominant eye.

Wow this is cool. I guess I'm right eye dominant.

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Off Topic / Re: Which forumer would you most willingly dance with

« on: February 07, 2016, 10:59:30 PM »

Oh *swoon* I got two. You guys are gonna have to take turns~~

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Off Topic / Re: Year and a day forum-cakeday

« on: February 07, 2016, 10:58:33 PM »

I've had this account for exactly 2 years and 4 months today.

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Off Topic / Re: Car thread

« on: February 07, 2016, 10:54:48 PM »

This doesn't look so bad though. A lot of FT-1 inspiration.