Month: March 2022

I have recurring digestive issues most mornings. Sometimes it makes me late but I still work 9 hours+. I usually skip my lunch break also. The last time I came in late my supervisor had some negative remarks about my tardiness. Well, now I won’t be late.

Most of us, if not the majority of us, are surrounded by people – which is good and bad, mostly bad in this current system. We've been taught to be helpless, immobilised, separated from one another so we turn online were we ultimately don't realise the power we have to organise to its full potential. Funnelled into school and ultimately work, still as uneducated as before. Kept herded in the cage that is capitalist realism, the psychological prison and our crumbling mask, misinformation, lack of emotional support and the breakdown of communities and class solidarity (we are ALL oppressed, we just all need to realise it, even the rich but yeah don't fucking let me defend the rich, that's not what I'm about, but we're ALL oppressed by this system. Rich or poor, middle class, working class, upper class, filthy rich, immigrant or national, black, brown, white, blue, red, pink,…

I will keep this as vague as possible as to not reveal myself to any former employees, or people who may personally know about the store I worked for. ​ I used to work for a vape shop. they were constantly doing anything they could to dodge taxes, from using shell companies to sell their own products to themselves that they bought from distributors. to hiding their nicotine purchases from the Govt. (by law all juices are taxed now by the nicotine content on the business side (not customer side) They would use a shell company to pretend to be a lab to avoid the taxes, and distribution limitations as a commercial entity) then sell that to the vape shop. (same company technically) They were also making their own e-juice which had not been registered, or tested by the FDA. (that's why it's so hard for you to find “house…

Has anyone worked for firms like Goldman, JP, Bank of America etc How bad were the hours? I've heard you have to do 16 hours I'm guessing there are no unions either and it's not as cool as the Big Short

I work part-time at a shelter. My coworkers and I deal with tons of crisis and bullshit, making a few dollars more than minimum wage. Due to this and general workplace violence/stress, turnover is high. Over the past three weeks, four of the shelter's five full-time staff have put in their two weeks' notice. As you can imagine this is putting a huge strain on our staffing supply. In our shitty collective agreement it states that if shift coverage is not found, the lowest seniority employee presently working must stay to cover the shift. So, imagine you come in to an 8 hour shift and find out you're actually working 16 hours. As I write this I am 9 hours into my double shift. I hate it here.

So I’m entering my first, real consultation for a farm and it’s looking really solid honestly! I’m being brought on to a up and coming mushroom farm for expansion advice and placement. We’re moving to bring me along as a private contractor, I’m just nervous about the aspects of my contract I guess. I’ve never been apart of the contract drafting and I want to be as thorough as possible. I also want to protect some of my concepts and designs so they can’t claim ownership and prevent me from building with others. I have to enter some agreements for some grants as well, I’m just trying to prepare as best as I can to really hit the ball rolling, get them up and running quickly and protect myself.

As soon as you feel that something fishy is going on with your employer, start documenting everything. Save copies of emails and memos. Logs, timesheets, post-it notes, or phone calls, anything that relates to the fishy-ness. Even conversations, make a note, put down who was there, witnesses, and what was said. Keep this all at home in case you are ever locked out of the office. If you file a complaint with any Department of Labor or other regulatory organization you will have a much higher chance of getting a positive outcome if you have evidence to back up your claims and trying to recreate this evidence days, weeks, or months after meetings or conversations, can be difficult. Be careful about recruiting others in your office to do the same. They may be your friend now, but if their job is on the line they could quickly change their tune…