Month: March 2022

I started my first day at a home improvement retail store last night, since the starting pay was close to 17 an hour, I thought it’d be a good gig to be a cashier while in school. When I arrived to work nobody was being friendly like they pretended to be on orientation. They immediately made me do backbreaking work completely on my job description did not entail whatsoever. I was yelled at twice by an older, bitchy, female manager telling me, “You’re not working hard enough. Everything has to get done before we close tonight!” I just shrugged it off and kept doing my best. They just threw me in the fire with zero training or anyone to help, which was absolutely ridiculous. An assistant manager told me I was “too young and inexperienced to be working here.” As a college student who has worked in retail before, In…

I used to work in corporate management at a pretty high level for a hot minute, and for whatever reason it just tonight occurred to me that I can actually do something positive for people. We're not necessarily talking Goldman Sachs here, but getting a 4.0 applicant from an Ivy happened multiple times a month, so nothing to scoff at either. This stuff has a way of actually trickling down from the top, so that statement is meaningful at least in the sense that a lot of other companies are likely to use the same tactics and philosophies. Let me unwrap the black box to the extent I can. This will be a combination of things I just wish I had known, and things they actively ask us not to tell you. I don't claim any of this shit will be revolutionary to anyone who's worked in management or knows…

It was January last year that did it, the previous Christmas had been one of the worst ever work wise, non stop calls from my Malaysia based manager who felt he could call me 24x7x365 because I was the only “employed” (not contractor) engineer in Australia and with 37+ years in technical IT roles, yes I had/have the skills. The calls continued into January and the role was feeling more and more like I was now in an “Indian call centre” and finally a week into January, I was seriously looking at a locked desk drawer that contained 4 full boxes of very strong opiates A bit of background is required here to explain the opiates, back in 2014, I was diagnosed in the local hospital emergency rooms with bowel cancer, 5 hours after waking in, I was in major life saving surgery for a previously undiagnosed tumor that had…

This would help the green transition, because if the government doesn't pay, the working poor won't be able to get EVs for at least another decade on average, maybe two decades, which is about the lifespan of a car nowadays. The green transition is by far the top issue in the world right now. It cannot be ignored.

Everybody needs and probably wants to work or do something. We should be improving work conditions and pay instead of ending it all together.