Month: February 2023

Why can’t we all just be paid $15M annually by the government to live off? Why do we have to provide essential services to society that otherwise would cause us to collapse? I mean, do we really need workers anyways? We don’t need doctors, pilots, bankers, chefs, etc.

When you get a meeting invite with this subject line on a Saturday of a 3-day weekend.

My boss has to seriously the worst leader I've ever worked with, which is astonishing because at first he was pretty cool. But when it comes to working on a critical project, he acts like he's completely insane. He asks for things to be done in 1 hour that take like 2-4 hours, and when advised about using data sources prone to error, he doesn't care so we do things the wrong way then he wants to know why the data is inconsistent/incorrect. Doesn't trust anyone on our team to do their job. I spend 3 hours cleaning/putting together a 500k dataset only to find out he had his own copy of the data that he took previously and made all these changes to without telling anyone, not even me, and then randomly brings us back in later and sends over his dataset he did who knows what with, and…

I went over 2.5 hours (well, it was 4, but our time clocks are another issue) to fi ish a project for the CFO. My boss told me to ask CFO if I could get paid for it. When I did, the CFO looked genuinely confused, like she had never heard of the concept of overtime before. That's a good sign. Used the time and blew in today, obviously

This is mainly for my own curiosity after seeing so many posts listing it as a job perk or sales incentive etc. How often does your company put Pizza Parties on instead of raising wages? (or making improvements etc) How much pizza do they actually bring in per person? Going to run some numbers highlighting the difference between what bosses think staff want vs what staff actually want.

So my roommate works at McDonalds and over the course of a year and a half he was able to earn a promotion to be a pit lead. Two months ago, management moved around some of the equipment. This however left a sort of pallet in the working path of my roommate. My roommate warned management that it posed a serious injury risk to him. They did nothing. He hurt himself in a minor way several times. Management did nothing. Then on 2/18, my roommate hits the pallet and suffers a severe injury to his left knee and is left barely able to stand or care for himself. The truly laughably infuriating part about it all is that even even on the night of his injury where the entire staff wanted to call him an ambulance because he was in so much pain he could not get up off the…

Several months ago my work got everyone in the office a Patagonia zip sweater or vest with our logo. I assumed it was mine to keep because there was no contracts or any notices that said it must be kept in the office, returned, etc. I gave them a 4 week notice and my last day is tomorrow. I just received a letter from them that if I don’t return the jacket that they will withhold my last paycheck. I thought I was leaving on good terms but this just seems petty. Is it legal?