Month: April 2022

This happened nearly a year ago, but just now I feel like sharing. I joined my previous company (Call it “M”) in January 2019. Joined there with an acceptable pay increase, mostly running away froma toxic boss. New boss was great and the company had many benefits such as annual salary increases, private health insurance (Not the norm in the UK as we have the NHS), an excellent pension plan, 37.5 hours contract, finish at 12 on Fridays, free annual company share incentive, well you imagine. I won't lie, it was not an easy job, and I really had to work myself hard to get things into functioning, mostly due to the lack of a dedicated person to do my job for over a year prior to me joining. But I shouldered it in and after over a year I was already managing quite well with the changes I had…

I work from home at a call center type job, we were told we might go back to the office sometime mid august. However management yesterday told us we need to go back to the office immediately if we are having technical difficulties (like I have been having this past two days) or Thursday for everyone else. The job is over an hour away from me, and my car is not reliable for a drive like that full time. Will I be considered fired and eligible for unemployment because I can’t reliably get to work? Located in TN for reference

the USA is a beautiful thing believe it or not. you guys are exactly what America is all about. banding together! fighting for justice! creating a movement! that is America. America is all about the unpopular or little guy fighting the bullies until things are changed for the better. America is about pioneers finding new things…doing new things. i don't know a lot about your movement. i'm not a very smart guy. i don't know who's right or wrong but i do know your passion is what America is all about. so whenever people try to say your movement is against America just know that's what they always say about the ones who represent America the best.

I’m a student who is also employed by a research lab at my university in a position that is also held by non students. The building I am required to work in is massive and the office within it is huge as well. However, it is entirely empty. No one else except for me, my supervisor, and 4 of my coworkers are working in it. That’s right. An entire empty air conditioned office with every light on is entirely empty except for 6 people. A total waste of resources. All because my supervisor likes working in the office and not from home. Everyone else is working remotely. My research lab’s building has a huge parking lot that is essentially empty because all the staff are working from home. I do not qualify to buy a parking pass to park there, as first priority goes to long term employees. If I…

I have long held the belief that all executive stock payouts should be required to be paid at a ratio that gives every employee stock too. For the sake of argument, let's say it should be a 20:1 ratio just like the 1950's when people could buy homes and have families with a single job. ​ Elon Musk's TSLA stock is currently worth nearly $200 billion, Tesla has nearly 100,000 employees. If the split was 20:1, his employees would have $100b in stock, with each employee worth $1 million dollars. ​ …and Elon Musk would still be worth $100 billion. ​ Unionize.