Month: September 2023

why can a company simply change its prices without having to ask the government to do so? but workers can not simply increase their wages if workers cant increase their wages without permission.. then companies should not be able to increase their prices without permission.

Delta is in the middle of a union drive. Time to get the pizza!

Allow me to rant a little bit. So I made a post here 2 months ago about available remote work in Africa and my boss messaged me with an offer of a data entry position. He works for a company in the US and so he delegated his duties to me cause I’m he has another job. The data entry has been okay since I learned the system and the type of data we have. First month was great when it came to pay and overtime. After the first month my boss came up with a new pay scheme that would slash my rate from 4$/hr to 2$/hr. I talked to him about it and wanted to quit but he adjusted to 2.75/hr. A week in he tells me that I would get paid 1 week after my supposed “pay day”. Meaning after every 3 weeks I get 2 weeks…

should I quit right after I got my sick day approved same day or should I wait til EOD monday? Lol

I live just outside the Seattle area, which has an extremely high cost of living. Our minimum wage is $15.74. I have applied to about 100+ jobs in a month and applied here out of desperation since it’s down the street from me. After doing the initial phone interview which I did alright in, they told me there were 5 additional rounds of interviews to get through!!!!! The job has no benefits and they mentioned it has high turnover and they’ve had a hard time trying to fill it as they really want a “drama free workplace”. Can’t imagine why… I understand doing 2 rounds of interview but if you’re doing more than that, you better be at least offering a decent wage and benefits. No job is important enough to justify 6 rounds of interviews let alone one barely above minimum wage.

I have applied for WFH job here in Europe, but it's US company. That means that I will have to work night only and sometimes weekends, but no more than 40 hours a week. They wrote bunch of benefits, 30 days PTO and stuff that are normal in Europe. I was like: “Why not?! When I care, my English is good. I am patient (from time to time) and it could work for some time”. It's Customer Support and I had my doubts, but salary is 2k a month after tax and it's above where I live. First interview – easy, next one in a week. Second interview – some test and then manager + HR, also passed. Third and last interview today – similar crew, but shocking info. Only after weeks of all this and after I had to refuse other job opportunities, they told me next: “Our company…

8 years ago I was working in a preschool, a big national franchise. My mother runs a preschool and saw an ad in a teacher magazine encouraging people to buy their own franchise. My mom sent me the ad and there was my boss and his wife saying “we own two schools and make $400,00 a year” Meanwhile I had learned that families were paying $1,800-1,500 depending on the age of the kid. And wouldn’t you know it the staff was making between 2,000 and 2,800 a month. This is one of the highest cost of living areas in the US. Several teachers used food stamps and the only ones not severely struggling were those with higher earning spouses. This man was taking his family on annual trips to Whistler while his staff had to choose between gas and groceries.

I am salaried and get my work done, but have a real problem knowing when I am over exerting. 40 hours seems like a crazy number to be working consistently. Is it me? How much time is a person actually productive for?

Why the fuck are they allowed to steal my money and cut off my paycheck and get away from it, I hate it so much. I fucking hate it. I just got a job a few days ago and my manager is treating me like shit, I only get paid like a little bit, I'm supposed to pick up boxes continuously and it feels like they are cheating me. It's so obvious that they want exploitative labor. Its so much worse since like I only get paid in fucking pennies all the time and it feels so unearned. I might be able to choose my hours that I can work but I will not be able to choose if I can be happy or not, I thought working a job may not be so bad but now I realized its so predatory and just theft with extra steps. these greedy…

OP's note: The following is not to be read as some cringey manifesto. I just wanted to vent what has been on my mind for literally decades. It finally reached a tipping point. Making money is not a moral endeavor. To be rich is to be a sociopath because how can you sleep at night without your conscience bothering you because you exploited so many people? You cannot have a moral compass, ethical code or even a modicum of humanity when you conduct business because that term merely means the art of ripping someone else off through sheer exploitation and deceit. I'm not religious but Jesus was absolutely right when he said it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Of course there are exceptions to the rule but do you really need a…