Told my boss that I was trying to lose weight and doing keto so I couldn’t buy lunch from the cafeteria at work where most things are fried/breaded. Out of spite, he at my lunch that I made and brought every day so I had to buy lunch. Do I have grounds to sue for theft?
As the title states, I work 4 days a week, ten hours a day, but when I use PTO they only pay put 8 hours, so any time anyone takes a day off they get shorted 2 paid hours, is this legal for my employer to do?
What are hourly employees obligations to make up for lost time due to a power outage that affected productivity? If an employer is asking their hourly wage employees to “get the lead out” so to speak to catch up, should they be offering some additional incentive other than the normal wage?
Now that we are in the alienation phase of capitalism, with people emotionally and personally disconnected from their productivity, what comes next? Let's face it capitalism isn't gonna change, the elites make too much money to make it change. Twitter isn't gonna change things, no matter how catchy the tweet. Laws aren't gonna change, cuz (insert a billion reasons). Basically, it's not gonna change! So what comes next? What happens when the poor are so poor and nothing changes?
Per my last post here, my employer is trying to make me go into the office twice a week starting next week. They pay me so little, the commute would genuinely fuck me, but that’s also not the point. I’ve been wfh since I started with them and have been a top performer in the company. Even our research & development department uses my reports as examples for nationwide training. I’ve only been here a year and some months, HR calls that “a long time”. Anyway it kinda sucks and I’m too good for this. I’m interviewing somewhere else and hope to leave this place in the dust, but for the time being, I need to act like I’m stuck here. I asked to initiate the interactive process for wfh accommodation for my ADA-recognized disabilities. I have a hard time believing anyone will be able to say that it’s “undue…
So my dads pretty economically right wing (he listens to ticker Carlson daily and when we were in a bookstore he saw a copy of Atlas Shrugged and said “amazing book, you should definitely read” and I told him I’d practice speed sword swallowing but thank you for the recommendation. This morning he sent me something from an unknown source (I’m assuming it was a comment on a newspaper) (he didn’t type this, he doesn’t talk like this at all) and I felt my IQ drop by about 20 points or so. I feel like I kind of know why what this person said is wrong and stupid and various fundamental levels but I can’t quite put it into words. Copy pasted the text below: “This is what you get when you decide on a VP based on the level of melanin in the skin and type of genetalia (ie…
After countless meetings how mental health is important , I was denied. I was in an absolute state yesterday after over working the week before and no sleep because we got a puppy (I mean my bf and I). I’ve taken exactly 2 days off this whole year, once in April when I had covid (only 1 day since my boss actually doesn’t believe covid is real), and once when I was just fucking sick. I asked if I could please take a half day since I’ve worked several 12 hr days last week (I’m on salary) and was told “not with pay and only after a form has been submitted a week prior and approved by all departments not to be a hinderance.” I am in marketing working in const. This HR jackass has listened to me be verbally harassed and threatened, his EXACT words were “you handled it…
It is still possible to observe and see the issues mentioned in this subreddit regarding working rights, conditions, pay, and so on, but to also believe that the solution may come from a different place. Imagine this for a second: before we do any sort of minimum wage/salary/other government mandate to improve work conditions, we simply get rid of subsidies and bailouts. This leaves employers without a safety net, meaning that when they lose an employee, they don’t recover the value they would have had otherwise. That could easily be considered a libertarian solution that makes the market more free, but nonetheless hugely benefits the worker. Maybe we should flip it on its head: No-one wants to hire because they receive so many bailouts. Companies should pull themselves up by the bootstraps, and earn their employees by providing an enticing place to work.