Month: April 2023

So my dad is retired and to keep himself busy, he got a job a Lowe’s. Cool right? He’s been there I think for about a year and he does enjoy it. He worked in construction all his life so he definitely knows his way around a hardware store. I don’t get to see much of my dad since he lives in a different state. I always book my trips in advance to give him ample time to let his employer know. I told him two weeks ago that I was going to come up in the end of July, so that’s what? 3 months notice? He was only needing to take 3 days off, so for any smart, competent manager, this should have been no problem, right? Wrong…. Lowe’s denied his time off. 3 days off, 3 months in advance! Wtf?! So my dad said fuck it and put…

Working 12 hour shifts without a guaranteed lunch in a state without break/lunch laws. We're required to clock out online for lunch. If we ever do get a lunch, it's only 30 minutes before I have another meeting to log into. Company policy is that we must log into Zoom meetings 10 minutes before they're scheduled to start. It's usually unpredictable whether the meetings start on time, but I am back at my desk logged in ready for the meeting. This means that on days I do have an after lunch meeting, my lunch is now within the federal 25 minute law and I technically now have paid lunch right?

Abstract Loyalty is often touted as a moral principle, or virtue, worth exemplifying in social and business relations. But is it always beneficial to be loyal? We investigate possible negative consequences of being a loyal employee in the workplace. Instead of protecting or rewarding them, loyal employees are selectively and ironically targeted by managers for exploitative practices (Studies 1–2). The targeting of these loyal workers is mediated by the assumption that loyal individuals are readily willing to make personal sacrifices for the objects of their loyalty (Study 1). We then find evidence for the reverse causal pathway: workers who agree (versus refuse) to be exploited in the workplace acquire stronger reputations for loyalty (Studies 3 and 4). These bidirectional causal links between loyalty and exploitation have the potential to create a vicious circle of suffering. We discuss the implications of these results for obtaining a reputation for loyalty.

Anyone else tired of being ran ragged and taken advantage of by you're work place. Let's make a change and start taking control of this shit. Let's pick a date and everyone call in. Just let them see that this is the start of something where the working class can show we can organize even if its small it's a start.

My work is a collective of specific artists and they know I’m out when my degree is accomplished. However, i want to help them with this endeavor! What should I know? I’m a millennial in a gen z workspace!

So a chap at my work has been put on his final warning because another employee seen him at an event on a day he’d phoned in sick. This other employee grassed him in to management that he wasn’t sick, he was at the . People like this. Why do you do what you do? What do you want to happen? Who do you think you’re impressing?