Month: August 2023

My job is introducing a clock in/out app that tracks location data. If I refuse to use it can they legally fire me?

Part of the reason the sacklers were so successful in their oxycontin scheme was because they treated their employees like gods. They seem to have been paid EXCEEDINGLY well by Purdue Pharma when the company did well. If the company had a good year, so did their bonuses. This army of loyal employees almost destroyed the country and its because they were so fiercely loyal from being paid well and recognized for their achievements. Imagine if the power of this company was used for good. I'm not saying let's take notes from the fucking Sackler family but still that aspect is pretty interesting to me, like imagine if more companies treated their employees like that.

During COVID times I took a relatively low-paying job at a small business. I took this job, and remain in it, because it is ‘meaningful’ to me, ie, it is adjacent to/serves a pastime that I find very important. There are six employees at this business spread across two stores. At Store 1 we have a guy we’ll call SO. He started working at the business several years ago as a favour to a previous owner. His partner was in gaol at the time. He has participated in indecent acts toward children — this is on the public record. There’s another employee at store 1, C. Both the boss and SO continually white-ant her so it’s hard to be objective about her ‘performance’, but she is occasionally rude and dismissive toward customers she views as ‘amateur’. At the same time she is the only person who cleans and tidies store…

My best friend learned home repair / carpentry skills and now works for himself. Just a couple of success stories to show that there are options. Hang in there and God bless. Edit: I'm a stay at home dad and I work more abd harder than I ever have before. Really. It's gruelling. If you know, you know.

I don't want to train my new boss in my “job.” [This is the person who got hired for the position instead of me]. I don't understand why I should have to. A way to get out of it? What do I say?

With the heat wave this week, I decided to go around my office and check all of the air conditioning units. I wanted to make sure they were working and that they were on. I work in a pretty small office. There are only 5 of us and there are 5 air conditioners. We don't use all of them but I decided to turn them all on since it takes a while for the whole office to cool down. I noticed something in the AC unit closest to my desk. At first it looked like clumps of dust. I looked closer to see that the entirety of the inside of the AC was coated in clumps of a dark grey fungus. The metal grate on the inside, the part of the unit that spins, and even the plastic exterior had so much fungus caked to it that I couldn't even…

I was dedicated to this one job until an altercation with a favorite employee ended up cutting my hours down to 6 from 30. Being on time, not calling out and being nice to guests did nothing. Feeling so betrayed. Been trying to get another job and it seems so hard nowadays. Everyone is having like 363737373 candidates listed and we are talking about jobs like barista, server, cashier. I also live in Los Angeles to mention. Today I was scheduled for a Zoom interview and recruiter didn't show up. I emailed her and she claims that she showed up but didn't see me and how she cannot reschedule our meeting, she has other candidates scheduled. So ridiculous and disappointing. I am planning to go to college and start a new chapter. Tires of living off jobs like that, met many lowlifes at said jobs.

They are one of the worst kind of jobs to exist, had my first day at a packing warehouse today and would gladly never show up to that fucking place again. But I’m broke af and need to stay at this place for at least a couple months so I can actually have some money again( been out of work for 6 months) I am absolutely dreading tomorrow. I have zero experience in this field and the expectations that were placed on me on my FIRST day were completely absurd, had to meet a minimum quota of 70 boxes an hour packing car parts(pistons, rods etc). I literally couldn’t have done it any faster and I was hitting about 40 an hour max sweating my balls off. Didn’t help much that my supervisor was a dick and was calling me out on every mistake bearing in mind this type of…

Hey everyone! So I’m an instructor at an art college. I teach 3D animation. Well recently one of my classes I didn’t have the full knowledge on so we brought in a teacher who knew the full material and I was just kind of his sideman. Well at the beginning of the term we discussed that I would be grading there attendance, professionalism, and engagement. While HE said he would grade there assignments. Sounds like a fair deal right? Well cue yesterday as it’s the end of term. This guy goes “so do you have all the grades?” I said yes and handed him MY PORTION OF THE GRADING. He literally goes “why haven’t you graded the assignments?!!” And now I’m being written up even after telling everyone we discussed this. I hate work culture