Month: June 2022

With a very biased Supreme Court, inflation of our basic human needs, toxic work environments including an unbelievable cost of living. It’s just been making me feel like there’s no hope. This country is fucked, so as the so called ‘American dream’.

In the US and other developed countries we have cheap goods and raw materials thanks to the exploitation of people overseas and South of the border working in unsafe conditions for starvation wages. We have endlessly used our military to control regions of the world where we insert politicians who sell out their own people to serve “us” and create opportunities for western countries to buy resources well below their worth. Almost everything we have was taken from someone who was forced to give their resources or their labor for a pittance. At the same time, costs of living are so unaffordable in the US, and wages are so low, that we also have created a system of wage slavery. The US has the largest number of prisoners per capita, and the largest number of prisoners total of any country. We are kept in check with the threat of homelessness…

Hope I have this one right… “Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what your country can do for you.” ​ Signed, Entitled Whiner

Is it legal for an employer to withhold overtime pay if I used PTO in a work period? I burned a personal day last pay period. But I usually work through lunch, arrive early, stay late, etc. my check seemed to be about $300.00 short because my “OT is not time and a half if you have any PTO or holiday time on that pay statement.” Surely this is illegal? Also pretty sure I’ve gotten OT on holiday pay periods before. I work in southern MO.