Month: February 2023
I’m not going to let them win. They think forcing us back to the office will get me to spend money at these businesses. No chance, I’m gonna be bringing my own food. I won’t be spending a dollar other then subway transportation costs
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Corporations are the worst.
It’s not like I didn’t know, but it’s annual review time and I feel some sort of way. CEO sent out an email a few weeks ago gloating about our $6.1 billion in profit in 2022. I just earned a promotion and the highest rating in my department. I kicked ass all year, due in no small part to actually liking what I do, and what’s my thanks? An extra $2140.00 a year, for a paltry $43,700 annually. Comes out to about 80-ish a pay check or so, pre-tax. Apparently I’m supposed to be grateful that I also get a 401k, vacation and holidays, and absence days that I’ll get written up for using all of. Because my “total compensation” is more than just my salary. This is the same company and department that wants me to train the incoming offshore people that are supposed to “supplement” our department, and…
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Hiring on before big merger
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Robo-Dog, Stuff of Nightmares
https://www.geekwire.com/2023/seattle-mayor-praises-amazons-back-to-office-policy-in-state-of-the-city-address/ Mayor Harrell specifically praised Amazon for bringing back workers to revitalize the failing Seattle downtown. Sorry, how is this Amazon’s problem to fix? Why are workers being ripped from their communities to return to office, just to spent money at the Seattle SLU campus Whole Foods? Why is Mayor Harrell relying on shady deals to fund Seattle instead of creating a sustainable long-term plan for the city? Why do the smaller communities outside Seattle who have thrived since covid have to give up THEIR economies for a city who was failing even BEFORE the pandemic? And these questions apply broadly to any other city Amazon is located in. It’s hard for me to believe that Seattle was the only city involved in this decision making. I have reached out to Mayor Harrells office with my concerns and a request for him to revoke his support of Amazons policy which…
“Today, the Board issued a decision in McLaren Macomb, returning to longstanding precedent holding that employers may not offer employees severance agreements that require employees to broadly waive their rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The decision involved severance agreements offered to furloughed employees that prohibited them from making statements that could disparage the employer and from disclosing the terms of the agreement itself. The decision reverses the previous Board’s decisions in Baylor University Medical Center and IGT d/b/a International Game Technology, issued in 2020, which abandoned prior precedent in finding that offering similar severance agreements to employees was not unlawful, by itself. ” https://www.nlrb.gov/news-outreach/news-story/board-rules-that-employers-may-not-offer-severance-agreements-requiring (Edit: format)
Title, today my manager met with all of my team saying he is getting pressure to switch our schedules to 10-7 for coverage reasons, and it seems like they want it done quick. Naturally the whole team is real against that idea. Do we have any rights as employees against such a switch? It's a drastic swap, its sudden, and its awful. NYS btw.
So up until we got a new HR head a few weeks ago our sick notes had been accepted, but now we're being told unless we use PTO our time off will be counted against us with or without a note excusing us from the doctor/hospital.