Month: May 2023

I'm a freelance content writer, my company just applied ChatGPT into the working process and fired a bunch of people. They cut the rate in half and increase the KPI. They also make employees pay (50% or 100%) for the subscription if they don't meet the KPI. My question is that can they legally do it? I'm quiting soon anyway.

This might not be the best sub for this, but I feel like others here might understand and I can't handle the judgement of some other subs right now. I graduated last spring, after attending college for 3 years. I only had one semester that wasn't at least partially remote because of COVID, and due to that a majority of the internship opportunities and career fairs through my college were cancelled. I have worked for 6 months in that year since i graduated. I graduated with a STEM degree, got hired to do QA work, and got blindsided by being assigned to do HR work. When I asked if I could switch to QA, which I was hired for, I was told it wouldn't be possible for a bit, and I would need to start working 80 hours a week to do QA training on top of my super stressful,…

I don't know if posting here is the best place to get an objective answer, but I got some news that made me feel like I fucked up. TLDR at the bottom. I've recently been out of a job for several months and have been actively looking for a new one. I had a talk with one of parents and they let me know that to them, I am too unmotivated when working or looking for work (they were being nice about it). They cited an example at the first internship I got at a startup, largely because one of my relatives works there in a high position. My parent told me that when I was working there, I ended up making that relative look bad because I wasn't working as hard as I could have been. Apparently, I never asked for extra work and would be on my phone…