Month: April 2023

I think we are hitting that point where the wave crashes. The franchise system doesnt work. The “franchise fees” are the reason they cant pay employees, the food sucks to begin with (the only reason anyone goes to franchises was cause it was ok food for cheap) now the prices are outrageous. Lets just get rid of them? Id rather pay LITERALLY the same amount to get an entree at a restaurant. (Before you respond, look at a foot long at Subway, or “meal deal” at ANY fast food joint and compare that price and post the price) Its time to end the franchise model.

It's been interesting seeing everyone I know start to play with this Pandora's box, myself included, not fully grasping the fact that it's only going to exacerbate our already upside-down relationship between work and reward in our society.

Originally when I was hired, I felt I had been head hunted – they seemed to already understand my experience and level of knowledge and wanted to sell the job to me. During training, everything was fine and they even considered suggestions I made. Over the weeks, I met new coworkers and seemed to be able to get along with most, if not all of them, to some degree of friendliness. I was informed that they were hiring new staff because a long time employee quit and the owners wanted more time with family. Eventually, I discovered they were going on a week long vacation in mid-April but thought nothing of it. In this time, I performed the job to the best of my abilities, educated customers and staff, kept on top of inventory and cleaning duties that were being looked over, showed up on time everyday and extended hands…

Hello, first time poster long time lurker and big time supporter. Compared to others, I may get laughed at because I’m 100% wfh but just wanted to gouge how many others are in the same boat. I’m in insurance claims which deals with a lot of litigation that makes up a quarter of my overwhelming current large pending. I would give more details but I think I can be easily identified by my company given my unique duties and types of claims I handle as I suspect someone from there is sneaking around in these types of forums. Anyway, I looked at the department roster from a few years ago and to now, it’s almost 50% less than what it was and don’t think they hired anyone since the pandemic which means anytime someone quits, their case load and files get thrown onto the rest of us left. During this…

I work in Italy, Europe and I have to deal with American top tier companies almost on a daily basis. Whenever I see a 2 hour online meeting booked on my calendar by some Katherine “but call me Kat” from “X American company, stealing wages since 1492” I swear I want to slit both my wrists and jump out of an open window. The jargon is insufferable. I cannot count the number of times I heard, in a serious meeting “on this journey” and “dream team” and “seize this opportunity” ….dude, why so much bs? like who tf is buying this crap? Sell me the shit and gtfo, I ain't got time for doing this all day. My job would be so much easier without these clowns. You guys should put these people on a bus to North Korea

Being black (and dark skinned), plus size, non-binary, bisexual and polyam really put me in a corner. Discovering that I have ADHD is kinda the cherry on top of it. What leaves me desperate isn't really not fitting almost anywhere but the constant aggression for not being normative. Besides all of that, I feel like weekends are just a brief timeout and there you go, back to being productive again. Low salaries, high rents, “inflation”, exploitation, racism, transphobia, biphobia, fatphobia… I got to the point that I don't wanna get out of bed to cook myself a decent meal. Survive on smoking, water and bread. Well, at least when someone “compliments me”, I'll be able to share that depression is the best diet. The amount of money it takes to afford living… It's a loop! And for what, really? To keep eachother making money for the next millionaire corporate guy?…