Month: August 2023

Jackie is a cook with a disability requiring accommodations. She is a single mother with two young children. Manager fired her with a groundless accusation of theft Jackie was reinstated by the restaurant owner In 2 months, Jackie tells the owner of several discriminatory practice gotten much much worse following her return to the restaurant. Owner talks to the manager that evening. On the following day, the same manager fires Jackie for showing up late. Jackie was never late before. It turned out it was Jackie’s day off. The cook who showed up late was Barbara (another cook without disability) Manager says “Jackie still needs to get fired because her performance was not good anyway. Barbara is fine because otherwise she has been perfect. I am not going to discipline Barbara.” Jackie can’t work for other five star restaurants because the manager badmouths her to the prospective employers. Jackie ends…

So I was hired as a vet assistant in July for a small clinic(on mobile). They immediately put me on reception. I figured ok whatever, because the receptionist was going on vacation for a few days no big deal. Everything goes great during those first two weeks and knowing that I was hired for their other office, that I would be going to the next week. I was not introduced to anyone from that office (red flag 1), my first time meeting the doctor was on his day off he came in I did the “hi how are you doing? What can i…” that's as far as I got before he cuts me off just saying “I'm the doctor” pushing past me. (Red flag 2). Well I have ADHD and dyslexia and make it very clear to everyone that there are certain ways I can't do things. Everyone agreed to…

So admittedly I didn't learn my lesson the first time by staying with this company after they laid off 150 workers and friends and they retained some including me in 2020. They downsized our project to about 50 workers in the same contract. They then said the contract was ending and I was supposedly one of the better ones there. We had one lady let's call her Debra who has been there around 5 and a half years. I've been there 4 and a half yrs. Debra didn't have access to the jobs we were doing so Debra would you just sit behind her work laptop at home and say hello and goodbye to all and get paid for it. She avoided any meetings and said she had illnesses from respiratory issues to back issues for a whole year. We were all supposed to be laid off and had group…

28m I am American came here as a legal immigrant, I've been in the states since I was 14 yo; with the current situation I decided to move with my parents and get a masters degree to see if I could earn more but its almost impossible to find job with no experience have been applying for hundreds of jobs for the past 4 months all for data analytics and data science entry level, still no luck. this summer I decided to go to my home country Colombia and spend a month here, and oh surprise I now know why im not finding any jobs, every single friend of family member my age I have in my home country works for an American company, and Im not talking call center jobs, is software engineers, cloud architects, data scientist, business analyst. and they are paid in dollars of course half of…

I want to share it with the group as I am curious what some of your opinions may be. The union rep is in his mid-twenties with a uni degree which rubs a lot of members the wrong way and I think his most recent article paints a solid picture of how unions don't actually protect lazy workers. “We have all worked with that person who does less than the bare minimum. Their work is sloppy, they care little about details, and are the last one in, first one out. These sorts of workers are everywhere, and the trope that unions “protect” them above all other members is untrue, and is mostly based on a misunderstanding or misrepresentation of how unions work. Unions create and enforce a process where a worker cannot be unjustly terminated or disciplined for looking at the boss the wrong way on one hand, but in…

If, after tallying your net worth, you have cash leftover at the end of the year, that should be your tax bill – individual, proprietor, corporation, even including banks. Money is meaningless. Currency, no matter the backing (or not) commodity, doesn't mean anything. It is only a conduit for trade between individuals, corporations, and nations. When you hoard, you remove value from the economy. Unless your net worth is tied up in real property and you've spent the rest on consumables, services, and investments—all four of which would necessarily entail putting your money back into the Great Capitalist Machine—you are actively working against the engine of economic progress. “But what if I go broke?” Two things: First, the economy shouldn't care if your purchases are stupid or not, it only cares that your money is doing something (but try to not make stupid money moves). Second, that “whatever's left” at…