Month: November 2023

So for context I’m a third year apprentice with a training org, I’m moving rural and the training org has failed to find me any employers. I found 2 by myself and gave one’s details to my training org but the other has offered me a car and work that I’m more interested in, however they seem like they want to pursue private employment which is fine by me. However it kinda seems like the RTO is trying to throw the book at me and make me stay with them. In short can they force me to stay? Like surely I can just bounce and ignore them, like they’ve sat on my file more months and made my family suffer in a situation I can’t afford and I found my own employment, surely they don’t have a case right? I live in SA Australia btw for context.

My buddy has been working at this place for a few years and recently their CEO stepped down and in came a new one. New CEO is changing the entire structure up. One of his coworkers, who has been with the company for over a decade, was told his pay will be cut in half and his schedule will change to include weekends. Is there anything he can do or is he SOL?

I am taking my little stands now against the corporate machine. Such as this morning with a big delivery. The people pleasing stops here. I was on here bemoaning the company the other day, and you guys told me to dial it the hell down, and if I can, cut and run. I am looking for something that I can cope with better.

Literally don't know where else to go but I work nights shift at a hotel. When I first got hired I had multiple facial piercings in ans a funky way of dressing and doing my hair. They originally wanted me to be clean cut but after some back and forth they've let me keep my piercings in so as long as I dress business casual. Fair. So I wear plain button ups and pencil skirts with tights. No biggie. At one point I had dyed my hair (black) and the dye I used changed their formula so it stained my skin like CRAZY. I soaked my hands in hot water for almost 20 minutes, tried dish soap, tried rubbing alcohol. Still stained. Whatever. I go into work and a girl that had recently been promoted to manager (1 month ago) saw and was like oh! Can you get that off…

Basically the title. I applied for a job in late August, had the interview almost a month later. After not hearing of them i called and HR told me she was about to call me. (As if…) They told me that they want me to come in asap, meet the team and learn more about the work i would be doing. This was on Oct 12. They told me, they have two others and will tell me Oct 17. To no ones surprise, they didnt. On Oct 23 i wrote a Mail and on Oct 24 i called. HR told me they havent decided yet and it might take some more days as she cant tell. After that i decided i would try to contact them anymore. HR then called me Nov 15 to tell me i didnt get the job. Which was 4 weeks after the supposed date and…

I'm a night audit at a small hotel in a small town two nights a week. I get no benefits and $14/hr. Since my bills are low it's manageable, but barely. I'm hoping for a raise of a buck or two in the new year, since my State's minimum gets bumped up a buck or two. Just wanted to say that I'm really taking the “act your wage” movement to heart and am glad I found this sub. So here I am, at 2 in the morning doing nothing but scrolling and posting on Reddit. It's really slow at the hotel right now so an 8 hour shift is really about 1.5 of “work” and it's really easy “work” I love acting my wage! I don't do ANYTHING above and beyond.

I saw this job posting and it is beyond me how they think they'll find someone who can act as a salesperson, marketing manager AND accountant all for the price of a single employee. Someone would have to be insane to take on this role. ​ https://preview.redd.it/m8b69g02qq1c1.png?width=567&format=png&auto=webp&s=9c4905b37f7b8d0e9aaf0ec37b2e82ebfe35a5bf

In my opinion, it's a ridiculous question but how would you answer it? I've encountered, or thought up myself, some answers which I'll try to lay out below. I'm interested to hear other answers, or whatever else you have to say. What do you think? #1 Most people expound the labor theory of value stuff. A person intuitively feels exploited and tries to quantify that in terms of wages and financial valuations of whatever outputs result from the processes they're associated with. They presume the supply & demand of economic orthodoxy will work in their favor if they refuse to work or threaten not to. #2 “Bullshit jobs”. Some people notice the fact that very little human input is required to produce what is actually needed for people to live, largely due to labor-saving technological advancements. I expect they (rightly) feel indignant that their limited time on earth is being…

I just feel a bit scared at how desperate companies are for money, I got a letter in the mail from my old college asking for $48 for some bs that I didn't apply for? I hate this recurring bills things companies due and I recently purged my main debit card of stupid bs reccuring payments, my first debit card is even like 500 in the red which I can pay off but it's from I think like tinder over the years refreshing we should have a right to easy cancel, all these little bills are manageable but it's just annoyance saving up my money to have a nice life and then I have to drop a random $55 on a service I got when I was 18, I know this was rambly hahah but I hope some of you cool people can relate to this, I can't tell my…

I'm a member of the facebook Anti-work group, and thought it would be cool to get together with other people who are anti-work and want to hang out. I'm a lurker on Meetups, but I have yet to see anything similar to what I'm thinking of. A club where we hangout, do stuff and talk about the anti-work life would be amazing, in my opinion. I'm in the West Sacramento area, willing to commute to Sacramento at large. Anyone in my area interested in forming a club/meet up group?