- 2 hours
This comic was honestly mental healthcare during quarantine when I was working retail. This brings me back.
The website for my place of work is pretty terrible. I have customers tell me all the time “well it doesnt say that on your website!” Now, half the time they are referring to googles AI answer.
The other half of the time I click and poke thro our website on their phone, until I find it. Ok it wasnt obvious and Im sorry our site sucks. But your reason for insulting me and my coworker when we are calmy and clearly explaining what is wrong or what needs to be done?
- 4 hours
“The website said it as in stock”
“Sometimes it’s wrong. The website also shows pictures of employees smiling. You see that here?”
- 7 hours
Also, the app is probably poorly designed, doesn’t support dark mode, and is probably very slow even on the latest iPhone.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish9 hours
Around 2015, My niece told me she worked at a bank teller and the first thing they did was require her to install the bank’s app and rate it five stars. She said her phone is too old and they got angry. And she’d tell me they’d do “phone sweeps” to see if the app was on people’s phones.
Do min-wage companies still do this or do they know better?
- 8 hours
Lmao wtf? Sounds illegal as hell.
I’m not installing anything work requires on my personal devices, f ‘em.
- 6 hours
I have told managers, to their faces, I do not have a smart phone… While holding my smart phone.
So far, while most have quite noticeably glanced at my phone, none have actually called me out on it.
If any of them ever do, I will just get a prepaid flip phone and use that for work.
- 4 hours
I’ve just straight up told an employer before that if a smart phone was required to do my job then they needed to provide me a company phone.
they found other options for me, but it really pissed off my supervisor. eventually i left because he was an asshole. gave them a -1 day notice and just stopped showing up. i do freelance work now. they deserved that hit.
- 8 hours
Personal devices are personal.
Nowhere in the civilized world are they allowed to do this.
- VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish5 hours
America is a pro-business country.
They can fire you for any reason, like if they hate you’re gay. They don’t SAY that. They wishy washy it with “not a cultural fit”. Or throw you into difficult situations so they can fire you with “unable to complete tasks”.
I have Europeans who joined my company surprised at how little protection they get.
- village604@adultswim.fanEnglish2 hours
They don’t even have to give a reason. The only reason they’ll try to justify it is to prevent the employee from getting unemployment benefits.
7 hoursThen its not your device and you should not be doing anything personal.on it.
- 7 hours
it’s literally a contractual provision. are contracts not allowed in societies? or civilization?
- 7 hours
Correct, some contracts cannot be done. Depending on the specifics, the illegal parts of the contract are unenforceable, or the entire thing is null and void. Employers often hate this, because it limits the exploitation they can enact upon employees.
- 8 hours
There is a bank in the UK that used employee bank balances to prove they didn’t need a pay rise last year, which they were able to do because banking with them was a condition of employment
When I was in school they once checked everyone’s phones to make sure we had installed Twitter and followed the school’s accounts for each department. That was about a decade ago so it’s probably TikTok or something by now.
Back in the mid 2000s, the TV station Inworked at wanted everyone to haveout homepage as the default to increase hits.
It’s 2026 and I still wear a mask when I’m out. I don’t know why people act like COVID is gone and somehow long COVID isn’t a thing anymore. It’s still mutating, and endemic now, and there are a ton of health consequences to catching it that may not be immediately obvious, including organ damage.
That’s true, but for good or ill, it’s uncommon to see both a customer and an employee wearing masks nowadays.
- 9 hours
At a place I worked I wasn’t allowed to use coupons but usually employee discount was more. But we also made sneak accounts for our moms so when customers didn’t use their phone number to get points we’d use our sneak account to accumulate a ton of points
- 8 hours
I know a couple of people who got into some trouble for getting free points like that. Not saying every company is looking for it, but I know some are and not all the companies they worked at where huge mega corps. Just be careful out there people.
- 8 hours
It’s be pretty easy to see the patterns if they’re looking
Reward Points are there to keep you Loyal, not to give you free things
- 2 hours
There are so many distractions at work. In this case, it’s the customer asking stupid questions! Lol
