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How to ruin a company?

Hi guys, GF recently left a very abusive job. Came home in tears most nights. Employers and managers are bullies and intentionally look for younger/inexperienced people so they can abuse/overwork and indoctrinate them into a cult, recently they bullied/duped/pressured a naiive new mother into quitting so they get out of paying her maternity leave. How do I go about making sure that more people don’t fall for it? I am sure from the way it’s being run it won’t be around in a few more years, but any advice on how to accelerate this process would be welcome!

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Sunshine is a rare treat

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Yeah guys it our fault, just stop complaining and you’ll be happier

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Finally at the end of an 11 and a half years of pure , extreme work toxicity!

Hey Everyone, I hope y'all are all well. I'm finally leaving my extremely toxic job after 11.5 years! And No ! I did not give them a resignation letter because they really don't deserve it! Here's why, over the course of 11.5 years I've experienced/viewed the following: Nobody has a contract, proof of employment, pays employment tax or even has a pay slip. None of us (+/- 80 employees) have bank accounts. Nobody has a job description and we are constantly exploited and abused. We are forced to do whatever we are asked even if it's not our job or is a personal favor to director and he's family. There's no specific working times and there's times were we worked between 12-16 hours a days without extra renumeration. Asking for extra renumeration, a pay rise or time off from work may result in you being fire or ridiculed for the…

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Four-Day Work Weeks Are Good for Your Health – A four-day work week improves employees’ health in numerous ways, from reducing anxiety and stress to enabling better sleep and more time for exercise(…) “It genuinely has, even with our academic skepticism, been a been a really positive outcome,”

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Just got laid off after President’s Day

The first week of February, I came into contact with a covid individual. I called into my work in hopes for covid leave. Return to find out accumulated attendance points for five days. I was half point away from termination at this. My parents had to be dropped off at the airport for February 17, 2023. I scheduled a week in advance for request paid time off. Last Friday, I messaged my direct supervisor, “just a reminder, I am going to take my parents to the Los Angeles airport area. My request time off was submitted on the 2/9/2023.” I return to work on President’s Day to find out that I accumulated the final half points for termination. Why did I get paid for the pto even though I accumulated attendance points? It doesn’t make sense at all. I applied for unemployment. Not sure if I will get benefits for…

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Starting to feel demotivated about completing my current degree. And this is laughable.

I am currently in school and going to complete my degree in 2 years. I am working a part time job while in my studies. I just got a raise. This is amazing and sad at the same time. The part time job I am at requires little skill when I applied but gave me an overall 6% and 11% respectively over two years. The work that I am going for begins lower and I have heard raises rarely go over 5% annually. I am seriously considering studying something else after three years because it is paying better and less physically and mentally demanding.

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work fucking sucks – support and encouragement needed here

I'm 39(M). I'm an industrial engineer, grad of 09', and also a registered nurse from 17'. I've done many, many lines of work in my life, and all of them deranged my mental well-being. Many of these jobs were exploitative in nature, and I applied myself to learn valuable degrees and skills in order to have a meaningful career. I. 2020 I was lucky to find the first job in my life that didn't sturr up crippling anxiety – I was a product manager for a cutting edge medical device in the ICU field. It required both my engineering skills and clinical expertise. They pay was 52k dollars a year and I got a car, life was good. 18 months later, I got laid off because the Covid bonanza was over. I have been searching for a similar job frantically since then. I even excelled in a subsidized cyber security…

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Forced to Celebrate at work /gift give at employee expense.

We work a provincial government job in healthcare. Our management expects our entire department to celebrate holidays and birthdays at a restaurant they decide on by taking a “group vote”. We are expected to pay for our own meals. This is done on company time, and opting out is not allowed. At time’s management collects for donations towards a gift if it is a retirement for a coworker. I resent feeling obligated to : 1. Spend my own money on eating out this way. 2. I work with these people and would rather not socialize with most of them, particularly the management. (Working a full day around them is enough for me). 3. Being expected to financially contribute to a retirement gift for YOUR employees because your too cheap to get them one on behalf of the company. (And you get the credit for giving)! I want to work, and…

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Just do this one simple thing!