Month: April 2022

Cliche title, but I haven't had my first job and am already appalled by several work environments.

English is not my first language, so please forgive me. My company is closing down and many of my colleagues are looking for jobs. Some of my colleagues have already found new jobs and are waiting to work at the new company. At the last minute, another company bought our company at a very low price and promised to hire us all to keep the business running. This caused some colleagues to turn down new jobs and stay with their old colleagues During the first month, we were busy handing over the work of two companies. At the last day of first month, at about 5:00 p.m., the HR department of the new company arrived and fired all of us. Where I am from, employers can fire employees without cause during the probationary period. All they said was that the contract was over and you could now pack up and…

It’s kind of like a form of work. Create an overly optimistic or eye-catching blog. It’s like an alternate reality. Be very self-complimentary and brand yourself. Then sell ads for your site, or sponsored posts. This is the way.

I've met people who had a spare room and LET someone live there. Didn't have them pay down the mortgage or nothing. I've met people who bought a house and donated it to someone who wants to open a shelter or left there house for a good cause in their will. I've met people who had wealth and gave it up for others. Y'all are not doing stuff like that y'all are not doing some great moral good. I know you fashion yourselves “not the baddies” but sorry. The economic/political/social relation of a renter to a landlord is parasitic. There's no way around it. If you're mad about that work to build a system where people have an innate right to housing. But until the basic legal realities that define the tenet-landlord relationship are fundamentally gone to the point of being unrecognizable, landlords are leeches.

Insane landlord gives my mom a year to buy the house then three weeks laters goes “changed my mind” and tells her to pay 600 grand up front. We’re going to have to move out in a couple mounts because my mom despite having a degree and my step father who works in construction can’t pay over half a million dollars in two months. What chance do we have? buying a house will be nothing but a fantasy for the majority of Americans as it already is and most people need Financial help from another person to rent an apartment let alone buy a house we’re told as kids to go to college and work hard and you can achieve anything but that’s a load of bullshit the prices of everything will just keep increasing and the minimum wage will stay the same or increase by a dollar and we’re…

I’m a software engineer, and I’m blessed to be in a fortunate position where my skills are in extremely high demand. I feel it’s my duty to use this leverage in any way I can to help everyone else. So what I’ve been doing is requesting salary, PTO, benefits, etc. when a recruiter reaches out, before moving forward at all with them. My goal is that this information should not be nearly as taboo as it is right now. I applaud what Colorado is doing by making companies provide salary in a job posting, and I’m hoping I can convince other working people to do the same. I feel like if people with the highest job leverages started doing this (doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc.), maybe it could make it the new normal. It would be amazing if businesses had to provide salary up front to be competitive with job seekers.…

I worked as a delivery driver and we were on a 4-10 schedule, but were often scheduled for 5-10's because we didn't have enough drivers. We were also scheduled to be “on call” at least 2 out of every 3 weeks and had to be ready to come in if somebody called in sick. Which really sucks when your work day starts at 4am, because even on your day off you had to go to bed early. We asked repeatedly for them to hire a backup driver so that we could at least get rid of the “on call” bit, but they said we didn't have money for it. Plus, we were really busy 9 months of the year and a little slow the other 3, so they didn't want to pay a guy to just stand around for 3 months when there wasn't enough work for him. During the…