Month: September 2022

Ok guys. Enough is enough. Been lurking on this sub for a couple years and just finally created an account and have become vocal. We all want the same thing from what I’ve gathered. A society without work isn’t immediately obtainable. Capitalism is a huge ship and will take some time to turn. Just posting on this sub isn’t enough anymore. I’ve seen countless people wanting to do something. Let’s do this. I’m no leader or revolutionary type, but I can organize some things. If your tired of it and want to change, then let’s get this ball rolling. Hit me up. We are going to need some organization to get this moving. I can’t do it without you all. We need actual direction. An actual plan. Not just a bunch of whiners. If that’s what you want to do is just vent and be heard, that’s fine. But the…

Let’s say we’ve automated all the jobs we could possibly automate. What does the world look like now? Will the rich/ruling class/machine owners be dominating the 99.99%? Will people turn violent because they have no income, try to take down and blame automation or do people try to take control of the means of production? Will universal basic income become a necessity and will the government actually implement it before a crisis or will they let people starve on a mass scale first? Will the machine owners realise no one can buy what they produce without having income themselves and welcome UBI? Or will they just export their products elsewhere? Will countries that turn to UBI and automation bring in and exploit immigrants to do what little work there is to be done? No one knows what’s going to happen but I’d like to hear some opinions.

I know my 5 managers are going to be blowing up my phone and I just wanna turn in my key and walk away from that job. No hard feelings. For a little context, I've been working at this job for a week. I don't wanna be rude about it and I don't want it to be a paragraph either. Suggestions?

this was about a year ago, start of last september. i was working as a seasonal employee at a well known craft store. well, me and a few others on staff were openly trans. one of our floor managers was super religious and had a habit of directly misgendering us to our faces and over the head sets. one day she misgendered me over the head sets after me and other workers were told by management she was told intentionally misgendering people was discriminatory. she was asking me to do something outside my job descriptions so i simply replied to her “my pronouns are he/him or they/them thank you.” ten seconds later as i’m working go-backs she points at me from across the floor and yells at me to stop. i froze up and had no clue what she was coming over to me for. i was at the frames…

So my organisation is bringing in a new approach to pay. Big push from the high ups, huge fanfare, been going for months and months. It’s all about “rewarding outstanding contributions” rather than year-on-year increases. Now, on the face of things that doesn’t sound so bad – people do great stuff, they get rewarded a bit extra. So, being curious I thought I would take a look into what it would mean to me. Run some numbers So it turns out, if I do excellent work, bust my chops and go all out I can expect my excellence to be rewarded with a grand total of…. £160 extra a year. Pre-tax and NI. That doesn’t even cover my student loan repayment for a month! Basically it sounds like they’re incentivising me to coast along. Cheap bastards.

I'm sorry this will be very long but I want to get this off my chest. I've been working as a structural engineer/manager structures in this UK based engineering firm. They do all of their engineering and architecture work offshore in Pakistan, where I live. The UK team consists only of marketing people and on-ground surveyors. They send us leads and we work and deliver the project. While, I absolutely loved the UK team and they loved me too- I always had friction with the CEO (who is a British-Pakistani, living in the UK) and the General Manager in Pakistan. Most of my arguments with them consisted of us being unreasonable with some clients, i.e., us not giving a refund when we should. It just was on my conscience that I'm being party to borderline legit scams. I always thought, I didn't go through engineering school to deceive people. And…

I worked at a smilton for a year before they fired me for leaving early sick. They refused to pay my PTO unless I signed a letter agreement stating I would not slander the owner management group. Denied my unemployment till a ALJ determined it was a wrongful termination. So I left a review on Google about some of the business practices like refusing to move a guest when there was sewage backed up causing headaches. Altering time punches to not exceed 40 hours. Promoting a hostile environment. All things that are true, backed by emails, photos, audio and video recordings. Not slander. But the ownership group denies any of it and had their lawyers send me a cesse and desist letter threatening a lawsuit, demanding I delete the review. Im not deleting anything and doubled down by making some videos public on YouTube. I've contacted a couple lawyers myself…