Month: September 2022

He came in from chipping golf balls and taking it easy, sat down in his chair, and just stopped breathing. He was 72, and had been retired for 7 years. All I can think of is how hard he worked his whole life, and how all that work tended to aggravate a distance between he and I that started when I was a boy, and only grew with time. I just keep coming back to how the way we work is bullshit. It uses people’s lives up for nothing more than squiggles on a balance sheet. He deserved more time. We all deserve more time. It’s up to us to take it.

Thoughts?

I just learned that FMLA only protects you if: 1. The company has 50+ employees 2. You have worked for that company for 12 months Can someone explain to me why that 12 month period exists? The standard for benefit allowance is generally 90 days. I don't understand why I don't qualify when I've been battling cancer for 4 years. I'm just fucked because I got a new job less than a year ago…how does that make sense?

Title. I plan on using my PTO and then quitting the weekend before I start my job. I don’t feel I owe them 2 weeks if they can just fire me with no notice.

Hi, sorry for yet another story but I had to vent. I'm in France and I quit yesterday. I sent the HR department an official “certified” mail to tell them that I quit. I'll still work for my company for the next 3 months (mandatory according to the law), but it's official, they crossed the line and pissed me off too much this time. They don't know yet that I quit because it's done by letter. Once they receive my resignation, they'll enter full-panic mode as I'm the only one handling all their computers and they have been struggling to find someone to help me for the past 6 months. Even if they could hire someone, he would also be stuck in his current job for the next 3 months which means that they will have no one to fix their shit once I'm gone, and I won't be there…

I was hired for an slp assistant position at a school and told that I was going to be able to run sessions with small groups of students Then I disclosed my disabilities Now at the end of my first day I’ve been told that I’m not going to be doing that I don’t know if they lied to get me in the door or if their opinions of me changed in a day What the fuck can I do about this In my last ta job the teacher didn’t let me support the rest of the class aside from my one to one even though I am a fantastic teacher because she personally didn’t like me What if this is happening again