Month: January 2023

Hey mate just chasing a quote for that roof restoration get back to me asap thanks buddy bumpkins

Yesterday, as well as previous times before, my workplace has forced workers to continue working for more than 5 consecutive hours without a lunch and 3 of those hours without a paid break. This is in direct violation of 2 parts of Washington State labor laws. Due to my separate schedule, I was afforded a break and, seemingly, cannot report this to L&I as I do not have the proper evidence. Please correct me if I am wrong. How can I report this? Do the affected employees have to report it themselves? Is there anything I can do if the affected employees don't take action under my recommendation?

What's your story? I'm here to listen and give you fuckin credit for proving everyone wrong.

So we have our annual reviews this week. Since we were bought out by an international corporate this has never gone well, to the point that we've lost 90% of our original workforce. I'm a lowly warehouser. I'm not one to bag my colleagues, but this has me itching for a confrontation. So the new manager has been here for a month, and has been working hard to advocate for us to corporate with middling success. However, today he pulls aside my fellow warehouser for a secret squirrel conversation. Me and the warehouse manager both agreed it was weird. Later, the manager outright says they're fulfilling broken promises to this colleague. I piped up immediately – “what about the broken promises to the rest of us?” Got nothing from that. Then he comes back hours later and says they're starting the reviews in no particular order, but the aforementioned colleague…