Month: April 2022

I think we are putting way too much hope on a general strike. Open a history book and find out what happened at the first.. People were slaughtered. Do you know what they've done to other countries. Do you know the extent of what we did to Vietnam? Do you know what we do to other countries? You think they won't do that to us?? I'm not saying that we should never have one. A general strike is probably the best tool at our disposal. But we (the United States) are not prepared for what actual comes with a general strike. We have no mutual aid. We have no collectivism, we have no community. The only thing we have is anger. And anger will not overcome capitalism. If you want a general strike, you need to get off of Reddit, go into your communities and start solving problems for people.…

I don’t know why I need 3 different types of health insurance. Eye, dental and health? Is this just a slick way to milk us even more? Aren’t all 3 related to your health? If you have fucked up teeth, it can directly impact your heart health and if your vision is poor or if you have some sort of medical condition with your eye isn’t they technically your health?

I refuse to give more than 49% of my week to work, I'd rather die than do so. corporations will get less than 50% of my week or they will get none of it, I aim for 3 days a week or less, if I have 2 I'm willing to take extra shifts if they appear to me but i wont seek them out. I know this is a privileged position to be in and I wish all the best to people who cant suvived on this much and are fighting companies in order to live, I'm with you. workers unite

Company announcement was made that jobs were being outsourced to Phillipines. They said people won't get fired, but transitioned onto different teams. Typically, this is done to save money on labor. No reason was given though as to why, but was presented as exciting opportunities for employees. Companies have long outsourced US jobs strictly for cheap labor. It's just sad to see a company who states they value its employees to do something like this. We have to see how they handle this transition or what jobs they give out. Typically, jobs are less wanted than what they had. Just a frustrating way to start the work week.

Heya! Living in Belgium, got a Bachelor's and 2 high school diploma equivalents.I've been working for 10 years at a company as IT Helpdesk, didn't care too much until the company grew too much in 2019 and the human touch got lost. Was forcibly dragged from home office last autumn, way before the rest of the country. Strict controlling measures are in place (though, due to having some technical knowledge, I have subverted these, and a good friend in the Sysadmins is also here, hi!, which means bypassing some of these measures is at least not too tough). Working '8 hours', but in reality this 9-5 is a 9-6, and regularly on-call for a week with little compensation. Got a company car recently, but it feels like a dirty bribe to accept that the work environment is declining. I'm more than a bit ashamed of posting and asking help seeing…

Hi all, curious on what this sub’s take is on companies switching to location-based pay scales for remote workers. Today an HR rep was added to a department meeting to talk to us about upcoming changes to the company’s pay scales. Now that my department is considered fully remote, back in February we had to submit our home addresses to be taxed based on that location instead of our “home” or closest office location. They haven’t fully figured out the new pay scales yet, just that it’ll be location-based and they’ll release more info on it in late April when it goes into effect. It sounds like employees that live in more expensive areas will be paid more for doing the same job than ones working in more affordable areas. They removed all current pay grade information so I’ll have nothing to compare to the new one. They said our…

I went to a local grocery store in a fairly wealthy town tonight. 8:30 on a school night. There’s a child who’s definitely way too young to be working bagging groceries. The cashier sees that my gf and I made a face at each other when we realized that a sleepy looking kid is bagging our stuff and said “That’s my managers daughter, we’re short staffed so they brought their kid in. She does a good job.” What the actual fuck?? It’s not hard to bag your own groceries… that kid should have been in bed. The store was open for another hour too.

My employers time system runs in 15 minute intervals. So if you are supposed to be at work at 9:30 and get there at 9:38 you are technically getting paid from 9:45 on. They are fine with that of course. However, if after we are closed and everything is done we want to leave at 5:24 they will not let us and arbitrarily make us stay until exactly 5:30. My Boss gets VERY upset when some leaves at 5:24 even though according to their own system they will get paid until 5:30 and there is absolutely nothing to do. We literally stand there holding onto our belongings looking at the clock like a bunch of school kids for the bell to ring so we can go home. I guess employees are going to have to start being like that as well. If they show up late and they want them…