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Biden Gives Speech Supporting Auto Union Strike

Biden supports the union workers’ strike. States record car company profits need to be shared with the labor force. Dispatches his staff to facilitate negotiations. https://www.youtube.com/live/__g87VoooOA?feature=shared

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I won’t be using Frontier Airlines – The CEO’s rant

The CEO of Frontier Airlines apparently had an anti-telecommuting stance, blaming it on his companies problems, and went on to complain he has to hire more people because the ones he has are all lazy….due to telecommuting? I didn't know ramp agents or flight attendants worked from home, but if this is the caliber of leadership their company has, why should the public he just insulted use his company other another? I could write 16 pages about the issues here, but I wonder, who is the CEO that made Frontier an ULCC versus the Jetblue of the west as I heard it called before? CEO says people got lazy from working from home (although you can work anywhere, I see in office people working in public all of the time). Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle criticized working from home while speaking at Morgan Stanley's Laguna Conference this week, saying the…

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Striking auto workers want a four-day workweek. It makes sense.

Thousands of auto workers are on strike for pay raises, healthcare, and pension benefits. But it's the demand for a four-day workweek that's turning heads. In our latest Watchdog newsletter, we dive into why the shift makes sense. https://publicintegrity.org/labor/striking-auto-workers-want-a-four-day-workweek-it-makes-sense/

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Quit My Job After 2 Years of Abuse

I officially turned in my resignation today after working two years in a non-profit hell. I have fulfilled an accountant role in this company, and our CFO is a verbally abusive tyrant. His middle-manager is a yes man who assigns work last minute and can't communicate to save his life (and yet tries to micromanage despite this). My direct supervisor does her best but they have her fulfilling the duties of two roles without increasing her pay or compensating her in any way, so she's barely swimming too. The CFO is the main issue. We have an open floor plan and he literally rules it, walking by periodically to check if we have proper shoes on, looking over our shoulders at our work to ensure we aren't “slacking off”, and has even verbally berated people for speaking too much (even if it's about work). Our training and instructions are a…

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My final day of work’s hours were altered after I quit but I don’t have screenshots to prove it…

I just need advice or for someone to tell me how fucked I am… All I have is the times I sent via text to my manager about which houses I worked at specific hours. Since the season is dying down for air b&b/residential cleaners, they up and essentially coerced me to quit because they said I didn’t meet their quality cleaning standards despite never having told me such before. Other coworkers would double check my work and never saw issues. My paycheck already came out so I have a feeling I am so fucked. I am behind on so many bills and they took away the hours I desperately needed. The app that tracked that info was Jobber. Is there anything I can do to get what I am owed..? “Bad clean” or not, I still busted my ass that day. This company was known for altering people’s hours…

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How do you make your life interesting with a 9 to 5 job?

Can you have a fulfilled life with a 9 to 5 job? If yes how do you do it? How do you organize your time? Tell me all of your experiences.

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Being forced out of my office so someone else can have it.

Maybe I'm just being petty and overreacting. But essentially, I'm in an office on the 4th floor that I've decorated heavily and made my home. They've decided to kick me out so someone else can move to the 4th floor, closer to her colleagues. Like, I get it, that makes sense. But A) They didn't have a backup plan for where the hell I was supposed to go and B) Didn't ask me, or apologize for the inconvenience of having to move, they TOLD me and C) Don't care where I wind up. I know this isn't punitive, because they've only ever gone on about what a good employee I am. I don't really think they've thought this through. They just decided “we're the managers, we get the final say.” And I don't appreciate being treated like this. I feel like Milton in Office Space.

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Fired someone for “no” reason

Not sure if this belongs here. I work in HR and was asked to fire someone for “no” reason. I.e. there was a reason but they didn't say it to me and told me that the employee wasn't to know the reason either. Anyway i did because it's my first year there and don't want to screw it since it's technically part of my job. Later i found out that the reason was to piss off this person's manager so he quits since they can't legally fire him (he does his job properly they just don't like him). They threw this person into precarity to piss someone else off like a pawn. Anyway not sure if I'm even asking for advice just tired of how undignified working for food has become.

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Starting a Strike at My Job for Better Pay. What do I need to know?

As the title says, I'm starting a strike at my job for better pay. There've been a lot of issues here that I won't go in to at the moment, but can give details if anyone wants them. Looks like pretty much everyone is on board with it. I've typed up a letter to the owner with our demands (25% pay increase being one) and in it have said that if we don't hear back by the end of next week, we will start the strike the following Wednesday. Wed-Thurs are our busiest days. I want to make sure that this is legal and that we are protected. Some questions: 1. Am I going about this in the right way so far? 2. Do we need to actually show up to the building to strike? The owner isn't here, he's in a different state, so I'm not sure that that…

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‘Self- Eval’ Performance reviews are a widely adopted executive practice (SCAM) in bringing PE scores DOWN

I'm doing executive training because _________ I always thought that doing a 'self-evaluation' for my performance for the year was awkward….My bonus was on the line and I'm highly incentivized to score highly on my PE…but always felt pressure to give myself a 'fair score' Turns out, this is just human behavior that companies and executives capitalize on to negotiate people down from their performance evals. For example (real example used in the training), if I were buying something on like…facebook marketplace or craiglist and someone was asking for $45, and I only wanted to pay $40ish for it.. I would offer 35 and offer to meet in the middle. This is the same logic I am told to apply to PE negotiations. ​ Of course, someone asked about 'What about when someone scores themselves high across the board?', it turns out, people rarely do this (HBS data), regardless of…