Month: May 2022

I have a pretty cool job, it's weekdays, pays about $50K a year and I get to work with kids. Sometimes I have to straighten them out a bit when they get out of hand but luckily they usually fall into line pretty quickly. A lot of my time is spent in the car and people in the community generally look up to me so that's a nice perk too. I have had to work some weekends for training but that's ok it's me and the boys out in the hills shooting guns and shooting the shit for overtime pay so I don't complain too much. The other day this unexpected situation happens where this guy runs into the school I work at and start shooting kids! People around were asking me to go in and do something about it. Now I don't know about you but it's dangerous to…

I'm starting to feel that this sub is more of a tool of the bosses meant to act as placebo, and prevent change. We vent here. People commiserate, and nothing happens.

My boss is also the owner of my agent extremely convincing and I am somewhat of a doormat. She is codI work remotely so I have decided I will be putting my 2 weeks notice in via email, is that so bad? I am just D O N E.

More than 500 workers at a oil and gas refinery that produces something like 8 percent of California's oil and gas every day. (Richmond is in the Bay Area). Workers have been on strike for two months, opposing a contract which only raises their pay by 12 percent over 4 years. When adjusted for inflation, that's a pay cut… even if inflation is lower next year. They just got handed a contract by the USW which, so far, looks *worse* than what they were given twice before (which they voted down twice). Oil workers here are not alone. There are tens of thousands of oil and gas workers across the US, and many more internationally, fighting against inflationary wage cuts, understaffing and unsafe working conditions. The USW and Chevron have handed workers a sellout, the need is for workers to have their own, democratic organizations that genuinely represent them and…