Rima Grace

Like people who feel like they need to stay at a workplace?

I don't think it necessarily looks bad to be, you know, a quote unquote job hopper, depending on, you know, what your world is.

And I think it's, you know, if this is a place where they won't budge and it's just, it's too much work for one person to try and organize their coworkers to ask for better, it might be, you might be better off going somewhere else because it's like,

that terrible feeling of it not being really fair will ruin your life.

So ready for a raise.

I know that being seen as a job hopper might be hard, but what's actually harder is going to work every day in a place where you don't feel respected.

So if you want to stay and make a change, maybe try having a bunch of low stakes, trust building conversations with your coworkers before you can make moves as a group.

And remember, you can always file a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board about your jobs.

No talking about pay policy.

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Our next question is read by producer Alice Wilder.

You're not a sore thumb.

That hurts my heart.

I always find it so strange when workplaces are cliquey like that because it's like,

You're here for work, you know?

The worst thing about jobs is that, like, you kind of have to be around people that you otherwise wouldn't really want to know.