Month: November 2022

I work for a small marketing firm that is really dysfunctional. I’m in a frigid climate and my boss isn’t very accommodating to that, he is the company owner and lives 5 minutes away from the office so it’s easy for him. Yesterday we had a winter storm warning, the roads were really bad. I had a dentist appointment and when I left, I told him I’d like to work from home the rest of the day. He said I had to come in (I’m expected to be in person all day, 5 days a week for a job that could be done at home 95% of the time) to get the mail in case we had any checks. He was “very concerned” that they wouldn’t be sent to the bank that same day. I drove 40 minutes in a snowstorm, slipping and sliding all over, then I get the…

Looking for the original quote that I can link to. It talks about how modern capitalistic life is like kids at a carnival, and how the middle class get a single spin of the wheel, the rich get to try as often as possible until they win, and how the poor don’t get any spins of the wheel at all – they are the ones running the stands. For some reason, even with pretty decent from-memory quotes, Google isn't bringing me back s**t. Like, literally I get the blank page with “nothing available” and that Yeti ice-fishing.

Hello all, I just want to rant a bit and maybe get some advice. I work for a company that is contracted by Chevron to move railcars in one of their refineries in California. Last night I found a railcar that had came off the tracks and I took some pictures and sent them to my manager. My manager of course did not respond because he was asleep. I work graveyard and my co-workers and I have no direct supervision, so if we have an incident, we have to wake people up. Seeing as it wasn't a big incident and no one knew when it happened, I did not believe that I had to wake people up. Today, my manager calls me and tells me that Chevron management wants everyone to get drug tested. Including people that were not even there. I talked with my union rep and he told…