Month: April 2022

The largest social strides in history (from civil rights to workers' rights) were accomplished in large part due to public protest. From walk-outs to sit-ins to marches, protests are the most effective means for the oppressed to stimulate action (from the government and/or their oppressors). Unfortunately we continue to foster a strong anti-protest culture in the US. Either you hold a non-disruptive protest like a peaceful gathering in a park and get derided as “a bunch of morons sitting around singing kumbaya as if that'll change anything” (and let's be real, they're probably right), or you hold a disruptive protest like marching and lying in the streets and you get… this: https://old.reddit.com/r/cursed_videomemes/comments/tvyphh/man_of_culture/ People celebrating the threatening of protestors, and worse, wishing that they had actually been subjected to serious bodily harm. The video is too blurry to make out the protestors' cause, so these are all comments against the very…

My boyfriend had a work injury that requires him to work remotely. A lot of these jobs have been remote but are now forcing people in. He just had an interview for a job and they said he can't be accommodated because it's mandatory for everyone soon to come in 16 times a month. I'm just fucking annoyed. He has a damn disability and the job can obviously be done remotely. I dont understand why some companies are being like that. It's a customer service position. The interviewer said his ap will now be withdrawn. I'm just pissed. Idk if this was okay to post here.. This was for Navy federal credit union.

Firstly, I know I am responsible for my own actions, and if I want to quit smoking, I should. That doesn’t change the fact that I would not have started if there were others ways to take a break during shifts as long as 12 hours. Anyone else? This is in Michigan.

My company is giving people an average of 2% merit increases this year when inflation is at 7.5%. My direct report just got upset and did the math that she will basically be making less this year. Now I've got calls with my superiors about “talking points”. America.

We use Teams to communicate in our company. When I was inexperienced, I made a mistake of answering my boss message at 10 pm, which led me to a whole lot of work on a new project in the next two weeks. (If I did not reply to that message I would not have to do it because he would just assign to another unfortunate member who replies) Mistakes no more. I set two alarms: one in the morning, around 15 mins earlier than the starting time, and one in the afternoon, around 15 minutes later than the ending time. When the alarm rings, I log off/on everything related to work: email, apps. On Friday night I just logged them off until Monday morning. If things REALLY are an emergency, people would actually call me. With this way, I got out of a LOT of off-time message/call request at night,…

So I was feeling bummed about my salary being 15% under market rate so I decided to make myself feel better and do job pricing on multiple other jobs to see how far behind everyone was. I was stunned when I found this: Everyone in my organization is roughly 10-15% behind market rates, except every position in a single department. Human Resources. HR at my employer is responsible for doing market evaluations for jobs and posting salaries. Every single job in HR is at least 30% over market rate. So a total discrepancy of 45% between HR and all other departments in salary. The audacity of this place! The HR generalists make as much as I do as a Senior Systems Analyst! I am still reeling from this and don’t know what to do, i feel like retaliating. Any ideas?