Month: September 2022

We were bought out by a large corporation at the beginning of this year. Before the buyout went through we were told repeatedly ‘we’re not changing anything, you’ll just be under different ownership’. I didn’t believe it at the time but tried to stay positive. Lo and behold, everything has changed and continues to change. The constant feeling of not knowing what I’m walking into is taking a massive toll on my mental heath. As a manager my job to is to have answers, be here for my employees and help wherever I can. Every change has made that more difficult and today we reached a breaking point. Corporate’s new system has made it impossible for me to hop in and help my people, has made answering questions from angry guests harder and has me struggling to find the willpower to come back after lunch. I don’t know what to…

Hello. I see several subreddits all about calling out the exploitation of the current workspaces, which I agree with, but I do have a few questions and will likely repost them to multiple subreddits of this nature because I am hoping to understand 🙂 So for my questions (keep in mind these are all hypothetical and I am aware it is a long way until these would even need to be answered): How many (if any) mandetory working hours would be ideal for you? How will you incentivize people to do the dangerous/manual labor (cleaning, garbage collecting, construction – especially the dangerous kind where they have to be high up etc) until AI is advanced enough to do it for us? As messed up as it is, a lot of people only do that stuff because it's one of their only qualifications, and realistically would not volunteer to do it…