Month: September 2023
A favorite historian of mine on Youtube made a video about the history of work hours. It is completely relevant to how awful modern working conditions are, so I figured that I would recommend the video. Historia Civilis – Work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvk_XylEmLo
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It’s achieving recognition worldwide.
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Job I recently started
I recently started a job with a building material distributor. I just left a job in towing that was requiring me to be on call and work 24/7… at this new job I’m M-F, 6am-4pm with the 4pm not being strict and I can leave way before that when the the works done for the day. I love the schedule and getting off early a lot. I am NOT interested in overtime. I’ve spent the past 10 years before moving to towing working every hour of overtime I could usually averaging 70 hours a week. I’m done with that. In the last week a dozen of these signs have been posted everywhere. I was wondering how they were going to work inventory for 3 days and still do deliveries and take care of walk in customers, so I looked at the dates. Dec 8-10 is a Friday-Sunday. I looked over…
May be just my from encounters with people from the US. There seems to be more of a classist stance when talking about jobs. I live in AU, and though there is still a societal view that some jobs are in a more formal or academic space, there is still a general respect to other people not based on ones job. Does not matter if you are a cleaner, in fast food or white collar. Is this a thing or just a perception I got from encounters with a specific group of people from the US?
Contract work is making my head spin. I never thought I'd have to answer to so many people for sitting down and eating. What can I read (or listen to, or watch) to learn all I can about my state's/city's work laws so I can better understand what's at play and protect myself?
I read it so often, we are only truly productive for 3 hours. I do not have a job currently but my past experience can verify this, I was never even half productive for 8 hours long What purpose is there for a company to keep their employees there for 8 hours if it doesnt result in significantly more work done?
I just can’t do it anymore.
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Suck your promotion period.
My manager: “you're doing fantastic, definitely overdue for a promotion. Let's get that moving!” His manager: “absolutely, couldn't agree more, here's the paperwork to fill out let's go!” HR: “actually it's not the review and/or promotion period so we can't authorize this…” Me: “AuCtUaLlY iTs NoT tHe ReViEw… go suck your promotion period!” Ok so I might be paraphrasing a little but that's the gist of it. Fucking place is ran by clowns…