Month: September 2023

This morning I got a strange text saying it was the leadership team from my workplace. It asked me why I left and what they could do better, which confused me, because… I never quit? I didn’t even mention quitting, or joke about it. I’ve worked at this fast food place for a month (if that), and it’s been my first “real” job (my other jobs were on my college campus but I needed something for the summer while school was out and it just carried over into the school year). So learning the ropes has been hard but they kept telling me I was doing good all things considered. I even (this past week) worked overtime without being asked just because they were slammed, and even though I was stressed as hell because I had homework that would last me all night and I was being told everything I…

I’m collecting quotes for a project from conservatives/alpha males/Jordan Peterson/Elon Musk types about why unions are bad and exploiting people is necessary. Anything along the lines of “we don’t want to stop the exploitation, we want to become the exploiters” or Matt Walsh’s “slavery was good, actually”. Can anyone point me to some more quotes? Video preferred, text quotes also good. I’ve already got the Jorpy “people would die without hierarchies, something something lobsters” one, lol. Ty

I've worked the same job for the past year and a half. Up until the last month or so, the job has been great; I worked nights, 12 hour shifts, but I only worked 3 nights one week and then 4 the next. It was physically easy; computer work, phone calls, emails. The one downside was the coworker I had to deal with; she was made the shift lead, which was a position of responsibility but not supposed to be a position of authority, and she immediately abused it. She pulled rank to try to make me do things I knew weren't allowed, and would become extremely verbally abusive if I said no. I told my immediate supervisor about this, and he told me that if he confronted her and she quit, I would be left to do all of the work alone. I knew this was true, because my…

I am considering quitting my job. Due to some specific circumstances, I would need to get some short term insurance through COBRA. (Can't use the gov't marketplace to get the benefits I'd get from using my current employer provided health insurance – trust me on this). So I'd have to talk to HR to figure out what my out of pocket cost for continuing with my current company provided insurance would be. I'm worried that once I let that out of the bag, HR will go straight to management and tell them I'm asking about COBRA, effectively informing mgt that I'm going to quit (though, honestly, I'm not sure I'll be quitting yet). So… can I get this information directly from the insurance company? Or are there regulations, such as HIPPA, that prevent HR from disclosing my questions to management? Since I am not certain I'll be quitting, but if…