Month: July 2023

One of the benefits of working at my corporate education job was that we got to work half days on summers when ISDs don’t need direct assistance. After Covid, we were allowed work remote Fridays during the summer (yay) but had to work the full day because apparently remote work = not really working? I would rather work the half day in the office. Now we don’t get to work remote this Friday because we had Monday off (a forced non work day)? Like, if you don’t trust your employees to work remote, why are they even employed?

Noticed at work people do not read emails. Thinking about going old school and sending all emails as paper memos. Thoughts?

I’m currently trying to organize a union for my workplace (a movie theater). I did my research, have gotten enough positive feedback from my team, and am planning on calling our region’s labor board office tomorrow. What I want to know is your thoughts/advice on how to go about this. I live in an at-will employment state for reference. I talked to my republican parents about this, and they kind of freaked out on me. Now I’m feeling nervous about it all when I was feeling so hopeful. Please give me your honest opinions on whether I should go through with this and things I should know that research can’t tell me.

My company/site has had a rounds of layoffs, handed out shit raises saying it was a bad year (some people got cents raises), and been monitoring spending like a hawk. I think most of the layoffs were from hiring so much durning Covid but even so a lot of departments are down to 1 person and people are leaving left and right. Yet still no sign of layoffs stopping or the money situation getting resolved. And yet they just announced they just bought another company… just doesn’t make sense to me how they can layoff people and say budget is tight, but buy a whole company.

Taxed on ****ING everything. Including wages. The more you work and earn the more the government and the single mums and druggies get. paying for the NHS which I've barely used. Full time 8.5 hour days doing the same **** day in day out. Now no matter how interesting and appealing they try and make a job sound they're paying you because it's usually neither. Everything gets boring if you do it enough so why must work be any different? if I play a computer game for 40 hours a week I'll eventually get bored of it. Not only that but the hours of work advertised are always complete s***. What ever happened to 9-5. Now it's 6-2, 2-10 or 9-5:30 because they're tight af with the breaks. Oh nooooo I have the audacity to have to have a half hour break between doing some mundane s*** for 8 hours…

I just got fired after being hired 2 months ago because apparently it seemed like I wasn’t enjoying the job which I absolutely was and apparently I have an attitude problem. I was on my 90 day probation period but I had gotten a review two weeks ago which was glowing. Nothing negative, nothing to indicate that there was any problems. Last week Thursday was told an hour before the end of work that a toilet wasn’t flushing I worked as a public works employee hired as building maintenance but was moved to streets till I got the hang of things and after my review was told that I was to work as building maintenance and helping the streets dept. which is wildly understaffed so I get to the admin office and inquired which toilet wasn’t flushing and fixed and I was then told that everyone knew that it wasn’t…

Together we can be safe and sound.. Every time I listen to song it's when I'm feeling so down and hopeless… but together we can make it through.. together we can be safe and sound.. Theres more to life than being exploited. Theres more to life than making it day to day. We deserve happiness. We deserve health. We deserve security.

I’m in CA. I walked out on the 25th, and the 26th my manager texted asking what happened. I told her I am quitting and that she can send the check to my address, she never replied. I’m wondering if I needed to do something differently, because the check still hasn’t come in the mail… the payday has passed as well and I didn’t receive anything via direct deposit. I still have access to the app they use for tracking hours and wages.

I don’t know about you guys, but I am sick and tired of living below the poverty line. I am tired of functioning in an economy that thrives while the bulk of the people in the economy lives below the livable wage mark. A large percentage of the population currently lives without any healthcare, wage equality, workers' rights, or any form of job security. I think it’s time for us to act. In the past, we have seen unions put together strikes to force businesses individually to negotiate tables. These unions often include skilled labor, some trade, or some other signifier that binds that group together. What if the simple fact that you live below the livable wage mark in your area was enough? What if we could unite in solidarity around the fact that we are treated like financial slaves? What I am proposing is a one-day mass walkout.…