Issues we discuss in this sub and a myriad of others have me feeling expressly un-patriotic (second year, running!).
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Month: July 2023
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Sales teams are whip-crackers
So, sales teams. Those prissy, candy-assed frat boys hopped up on “hustle culture” that do menial labor but profit from it because somebody underneath them does the actual work. My company gives these damn kids joint ownership of the place and all they do is go door-to-door chatting up potential clients, throwing appointments at my team with little to no thought about optimization . Meanwhile, my team services almost a dozen clients every day in 90F heat (our company uniform being black denim pants and long sleeves), forced to hustle to meet up with their insane demands, often falling behind because no thought is given to the size, distance or even condition of the homes. Earlier this week, I made an hour-long round trip just to wind back up back at a neighborhood, with an appointment being just up the street from an earlier one that day. I’ve serviced houses…
We all know who Milton Friedman is (I hope). The man Time called “Uncle Miltie”, an adviser to such “greats” as Reagan and Thatcher. Here is “Uncle Miltie” talking about Hong Kong : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dngqR9gcDDw Here is Mark Thier in the Reason in 1977: ” The mobility of its capital and labor is another key to Hong Kong's success. Factories will be established simply to fulfill one order—for as little as one month—and then the equipment and workers will seek employment elsewhere. ” ” Hong Kong's success is due more to its lack of government than to anything else. Hong Kong has (effectively) no unions, no minimum wage laws, low taxes, no exchange controls, very little legislation proscribing hours of work, no barriers to starting a business, no restrictions on foreign investments, no tariffs, no quotas, and no subsidies to farmers or businessmen.” ” What makes Hong Kong completely unique in…
So back in late summer of 2021 I went to work for my uncle with the promise of great pay. It was a typical contractor shitshow, he was always promising impossible deadlines then working our skeleton crew 12 hours a day in order to try and make it work. Over time I dealt with the typical shady work stuff: not including travel time in hours paid, no per diem while traveling etc. I ignored it because I was just making enough to be happy. He promised a good bonus for a certain job last summer but I later found out that he was just legally required to pay prevailing wage, which just so happens to be double what I made at the time. I guess he decided to make back that money too because he cut my pay to below fast food levels immediately afterwards hoping I wouldn’t notice. He…
Been at big company for 4 years. Should've been promoted after 2. Didn't get shit. Didn't really care because work life balance, pay, benefits, wfh, team…all good. Then boss says in annual review I'm doing great he's gonna promote me. Oh btw he has an in office asignment. I say okay but i am moving and cant do it for full 4 months. I do two months, refuse to do last two which would be almost 2hrs each way. He knows this, tells me I have to do it, tells me he can't transfer me to closer office until I interview and get an offer. After his fucking assignment, during which I was harassed and sexually harassed, he says I will not be promoted because I moved. Says to me, ppl in san fran and nyc do 2hr commutes all the time. But I am still expected to perform as…
Been at big company for 4 years. Should've been promoted after 2. Didn't get shit. Didn't really care because work life balance, pay, benefits, wfh, team…all good. Then boss says in annual review I'm doing great he's gonna promote me. Oh btw he has an in office asignment. I say okay but i am moving and cant do it for full 4 months. I do two months, refuse to do last two which would be almost 2hrs each way. He knows this, tells me I have to do it, tells me he can't transfer me to closer office until I interview and get an offer. After his fucking assignment, during which I was harassed and sexually harassed, he says I will not be promoted because I moved. Says to me, ppl in san fran and nyc do 2hr commutes all the time. But I am still expected to perform as…
Been at big company for 4 years. Should've been promoted after 2. Didn't get shit. Didn't really care because work life balance, pay, benefits, wfh, team…all good. Then boss says in annual review I'm doing great he's gonna promote me. Oh btw he has an in office asignment. I say okay but i am moving and cant do it for full 4 months. I do two months, refuse to do last two which would be almost 2hrs each way. He knows this, tells me I have to do it, tells me he can't transfer me to closer office until I interview and get an offer. After his fucking assignment, during which I was harassed and sexually harassed, he says I will not be promoted because I moved. Says to me, ppl in san fran and nyc do 2hr commutes all the time. But I am still expected to perform as…
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‘Fired’ on my day off
I work, or worked I guess, for a large retail chain in the states and was ‘fired’ on Saturday with no notice and my day off. I was full time and had been with the company for almost 8 years. I got a new full time job with a different company and was planning to just go part time where I am now, but my store manager HEARD that I was quitting and just straight up fired me when I still had a week left before my new job starts. I told my direct manager and HR and filled out the necessary paperwork and never once did I tell anyone I was quitting. I have a congenital heart condition that requires frequent doctors visits and now I’m without insurance until who knows when all because my manager couldn’t pick up the phone to call me and ask me my plans.
I work for local government as a mechanic. There are 4 of us and we all alternate an on call phone. On the days we work we get an additional hour added and our days off two hours to our time sheet. It's a total 9 hours per guy per month. It's in the employee handbook that every department has someone on call, we're also the ones who work on the all the Police vehicles and all the ambulances for the fire department. He's playing the narrative that we're in a budget crisis when we're not. He just wants to make it look like he can run things cheaper than the last manager who just retired. His plan is for our supervisor to always have the phone and he'll dispatch us when something happens. So he doesn't have to pay us for being on call. He asked everyone what their…
Been lurking here for a bit. Seeing what it is now for those out there in the mid-level beginnings, and around that realm. Amazing what some orgs are doing to you out there. Shameful may be more appropriately descriptive. Nearly a decade ago, I had a certification dangled for 2 years to stay and “fix” things. My boss’s boss left and approved my full cert expense their final day (I wanted to do it the right way so I held out until they finally – in an individual act of defiance) approved the plan to my scope. Their DR (my boss) couldn’t do anything about it, and I chose not to despite suggestions that it “wasn’t in the cards” (but had a big green stamp on it already). A round trip flight, a fancy acronym after my name, and several years later the org that paid no longer exists; absorbed…