Our company was recently bought out and my annual salary per my contract is $53,300, we used to get paid on a different pay period and therefore calculation. Now we are paid bi-weekly. I asked my hr person because I have a $202.40 discrepancy now. They are paying
What if offering a better price than all your competitors wasn’t the best way to go? What if simply being the cheapest wasn’t a way to success? Meagan Fischer, the owner and web designer at Owltastic tweeted this story: Real thing that just happened to me: I quoted a
Jessie Stake and Terri Adams were both surprised by the tax documents they received from the multi-level marketing company they worked with. The numbers on the 1099ks didn’t match their own records: Stake’s records showed she sold $5000 less than her tax paperwork showed, while Adams’ was off by over
In 1995 I bought a black half-slip. I have no idea what I paid for it, but seeing how I wore it up until last week, you can certainly say I got my money’s worth. Why did I stop? Well, I put it on a few weeks ago under my skirt,
Like Google, Facebook, and Cisco, Amazon has announced that they will throw out the “tell us your salary history” question in the hopes of eliminating the effects of past discrimination. Several states and cities have adopted legislation that does the same thing. If a job is worth $75,000, and the
I am not a fan of swear words, so I was going to skip my friend Amy Alkon’s latest book, Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence. Alkon and I agree on a lot, even though we are polar opposites in many things. (She swears. I don’t. I’m a church-going Mormon.She’s a
If you have someone you want to get rid of, but you are too wimpy to fire him, there are some things you can do to make him miserable enough to start looking for a new job, just to get the heck out of Dodge. Here are 10 of them: 1. Lower pay.
The terrible date between Aziz Ansari and “Grace” made the internet go crazy and opened up all kinds of debate over the #metoo movement. The story’s author, Katie Way, though, has made herself a topic of news over her completely inappropriate email to HLN anchor Ashleigh Banfield after someone from Banfield’s staff
The last viral video I saw about wages, was Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda touting their own ignorance about how waitstaff are paid. Two days ago, another comedian, Trae Crowder, posted a video claiming that very few people receive overtime pay in the US because evil companies can simply change
By now the whole world has blown up over President Trump’s “sh!thole” remark. It even caused a stir as foreign newspapers tried to figure out how to translate the word properly. Chinese media outlets are tightly controlled and have relatively little latitude when it comes to creative interpretations. The
