Month: February 2023

Worked at this company for a year. Started with a temp agency, so technically, only 9 months directly for them. The way they do PTO is that 10 hours are accrued per month. They give you 120 hours in bulk in october. I saw my balance and thought, “Well, hell, better use it. Surely I'll get more through the year. ” Long story short, it didn't work out that way. I used 110 hours of it (between two weeks requested and sick/out days) and figured out I was tired of them and put in my notice. They then informed me that I'd end up oweing them money for some PTO time i hadn't 'earned'. At first, I was accepting of it. Then they told me they'd be taking my last check. I asked if I could make an arrangement. They said nah. I said f*ck you guys and left. Never…

How fucking delusional can they be? I make $13/hr and inflation match would be like a .70/hr raise and even that is pitiful considering how quickly basic necessities are becoming more expensive. And to sit through a zoom call of a CEO telling us how proud he is of the company being able to give “sufficient cost of living raises that exceed the rate of inflation” was infuriating to me and my coworkers. What fucking inflation calculation are they using to come up with a 2% raise?! Especially when the CEO's town hall was shot where we can clearly see him in his cushy, high rise office with a full bar in the background. Clearly they don't even care about optics since they think we can't do anything at all. Every time I expect the worst and every time they underperform even that. If I didn't need this job to…

I see so many articles pushing the construction and skilled labor trades as this underrated career that's in high demand and pays very well. I've been working the last 8 years in some form of construction, primarily electrical work, and can say beyond the shadow of a doubt that it is NOT the answer. I've always said that Construction takes advantage of Men's bodies the way that Stripping/Dancing takes advantage of women's bodies. There are clear differences but the fact remains that the labor shortage is due to the fact that no one (en masse) wants to work like a donkey and sacrifice their bodies for the kinds of assholes that run these trades. I have family in the trades and they've all accumulated injuries that heavily affect them physically, emotionally and financially. Not one guy I know of whose been working in any building trade has made it past…

I don't know what to say. I've been just sitting silently for a while now trying to make sense of the situation, but Its like my brain refuses to believe this just really happened. Let me just start typing, maybe it will help if I just get this out of me. So I am a uni student on paper, but decided to leave after learning my Bsc means nothing abroad ( or domesticly ). I was hired last semester for this small software company. There were lots of things promised back then, none of them were kept. But most importantly: they offered to hire me as a student-intern, so they would have to pay less taxes and would be able to pay me more. and if I really wish to leave the uni next semester they would just hire me. Well the new semester is beginning and it was a…

It’s the government. They stole a national holiday unique to Denmark. The Socialist Labour Party just went around the unions, and removed a national holiday as if it was nothing. I know this sub is very US-centric, but take a look around. One of the best places in the world to be a working citizen, and this just happened. For context, the danish model around national holidays state that the unions handle that, because it’s work related, but apparently not when it’s rich people’s fucking yacht money. It’s officially happening tomorrow. I’m not sure if any media outside danish media is talking about it, but, they should. Don’t know how easy it’ll be for you guys to do research though, I’m afraid. Anyways, fight on brethren! It never stops.