Month: April 2022

They denied my workers comp claim. After traveling for work for two weeks in a row (unheard of), I was scheduled to work on a day I would usually have off. The blood drive I worked was understaffed, overbooked, and an abnormally high amount of blood donors had reactions (passed out/threw up/incontinence/etc). Doing mobile blood drives is extremely strenuous as there is a lot of heavy/delicate/expensive equipment that we handle and set up. Right after this drive, I begin to lose vision in one of my eyes, and get a headache. Phone triage tells me I'm having a stroke, and to get an ambulance to the hospital ASAP. I get to the hospital and they discover that it is just an ocular migraine, give me an injection, my vision comes back, and they release me. Well, come to find out Sedgewick didn't do anything at all to even begin the…

I work 40+ hours a week, have a company email, am on the company Slack, was just given a new laptop to use at work, have access to lots of confidential company information, but am not an employee. I'm a contractor. So basically I do everything an employee does but for less money and no benefits. I love working here but just can't really stop thinking about that part. There are people here who worked as contractors for yeeears before being made an employee and if I stay here I imagine it'll be the same. Just lame, I mean if someone is a good employee, make them an employee. It's a huge company that can absolutely afford it. Instead what they do is have people like me on “part time” while working full time hours, so that if they don't need me for a while or decide I'm not a…

at the age of 17 i applied and got hired at an american eagle near me. from the beginning it was horrible . i was part time and a minor working a full time schedule. they’d only give me 30 minute breaks when i’d work 8+ hours and lie about it. the worst part was we’d leave for closing at 12 fucking am a lot when most of the workers were minors in SCHOOL. and they legally weren’t allowed to do any of this. they were doing this to all the minors working there. everyone i got hired with soon quit . i finally realized i needed to find a better job when a new associate told me they were getting paid $11 an hour while i was only getting $9. we both did the same amount of work, had the same experience, and were working part time. the only…

So since January 1st 2022 I quit my regular job. I was subcontractor for Xfinity (yeah I know everybody hate this mf company, me too). That was a day when I started to work form home, at the beginning everything was fine: I traded stocks (trading since 2016), work on my Insta blog, launched my trading school, successfully taught my first students 2 of them stated to really make some good money on trading. Then war in Ukraine started. I'm Ukrainian my gf is Ukrainians but currently we live in the US, when all my friends and family are still there. We donated hell out of money to save life in ua and later we found out that they spend all those millions for new war drone. It was first disaster I was hoping that all my money will be used for humanitarian aid for people who suffered because of…

Fairly certain everyone here agrees that all major parties in most countries are garbage, sure one less than the other, but overall still garbage. Wouldn't it make sense to vote for someone else with the chance to see something change? Even if it's taught that it's a throwaway vote, eventually it no longer will be and will get someone else elected and some democracy back in the system.

I work in outdoor recreation/tourism, and the owner, like many owners, subsidizes my wages off the backs of his own customers aka if I don’t get tips I don’t make enough to live in my area. I can tell people are not planning on tipping when they make a big deal out of this being a ‘fun’ job. And yes, I do get to do the recreation too. It is fun. Everything in between is HARD PHYSICAL LABOR. My body is broken, I am constantly hurt, my voice is currently gone and I’m burned the hell out socially because we’re understaffed. And even if I was having fun the whole time, it is still hard physical labor combined with entertaining people for over 2 hours. No matter how much fun I have, I still go home sore. A fun job is still labor. A fun job can still be soul…