Month: April 2022

So me and my colleague have requested a meeting with our manager to discuss our problems. The manager usually gets us alone to discuss problems and overrules us or dismisses us and I usually go along with it not to “cause trouble” but I'm so fed up. Any advice on how to approach the meeting? For context: I work at a charity (in the UK) where I handle debt, domestic abuse, homelessness (the list goes on) cases. Last month I did 200+ cases, my manager has basically been ignoring the impact it's having on staff mental health (unsurprisingly).

So the obvious solution to many employees in a large operation is to unionize. However, for folks working in software, call centers, or many local mom and pops, they don't have the numbers on their side. Could we build something to support these folks in their fight for better pay? As I hope many of you agree, the goal of antiwork is to abolish work. But increasing the negotiating power of the masses in an otherwise un-unionizable industry would be a step towards the eventual abolition of work, ideally. So what if a shadow union/black list, or something of that form was built? Something to give everyone from a teenager working at a local bakery to a disassociated middle-aged developer who's been underpaid and passed on for promotions for years. What if there was such an under the table style body that could be built to bolster these individuals? Could…

So I am pretty new to the subreddit and have been reading the posts and comments for a few days now. And I am wondering (asking the veterans on this thread) on how legit some of these postings are. Few sentences on the background: Working and living in one of the richer EU countries. I work at an international branch of a huge french corporate and I am happy with my job. Fair pay, decent benefits, good relation with my manager etc. I am attending now quite a bit of leadership trainings, as I want to move to a management position and joined here to get a better picture. You know…not just the corporate blah blah on how to be a good manager but honest stories rather that HR BS. First of all, I am sincerely disgusted about the stuff, some of you have to put up with. Especially those…

I was born mid-80's, just the culture to value the idea of growing up and marrying, getting a career and a house and kids. Just the end of it. Making ends meet is a challenge, but I keep trying to value myself more and more despite the climate I ended up facing. One blessing has been the willingness to wait out my unemployment for my current employer. I got a comparatively high wage for a job title I had no background in, but that my boss had some sort of hunch about. He makes no prior judgments. He assumes when I need a day off, I mean it. He assumes when I'm doing my job, I'm doing it. Remotely. Creatively. Independently. He takes time aside every week to teach me more, he keeps working with my potential and taking advantage of my strengths. I'm just saying this to encourage anyone…

A year ago my boss at the time wanted to clean up the office and asked the sales team to do it(cleaning isn't my usual job but whatever, get paid the same either way). While carrying around a bunch of old filing boxes, found a dusty $100 bill that had been accidentally left in it. Thought about pocketing it since I was underpaid, but then thought that it might be some sort if an honesty test that he had planted there, and went to give it to him. From the way he reacted I could tell that it wasn't a plant, and he didn't particularly care that a spare $100 had been randomly found- an amount of money that would have made my day meant nothing at all to him. I felt like a complete idiot for giving it to him and went back to work cleaning for him the…

I'm working in Germany and I'm shocked about the working conditions in the US. Here in Germany, you cannot simply get fired if you are sick, that would be illegal. If you are sick they must pay you your normal salary even If you are not able to work. If you are sick for longer than 6 weeks, you still get 70% of your normal salary by the statutory health insurance. There are also at least 24 days paid vacation. So my question: Are that postings here extreme cases or are the working conditions really that f*cked up? Do a huge part of the employees really have to endure this shit?