Month: November 2023

Is it normal that an older nale coworker (55) keeps on touching my (F22) knee with his knee when we sit next to each other. I thought it was just accidental, but I’m not sure.

Hey there! Pardon the rant. As the title says, I have a remote, part-time job at a small-ish financial tech company. I picked up the job a little more than 2 years ago, and the draw for me is that I can have really flexible work schedules were as long as I work the entire duration I'm signed up for, I can do it any time of the day, and the pay was similar to any waitressing work the college town has. As a college student this was pretty enticing. But a few months in, they no longer allow employees to pick up overtime, or work whenever they need to throughout the day. A few more months in, not only did the company become way more strict on our customers, now the employees (specifically us bottom rung tier CS) are really scrutinized for our punch cards. The job content (because…

We all know what's ethical here. Provide the products needed to do our job. Sure, my title isn't “bathroom cleaner” or “janitor” but my job does require all of us to upkeep an employee bathroom. I read OSHA laws and know they require clean restrooms to any given employee at any time. As a store manager, they require you to go buy cleaners to clean our restroom. Not to mention all the slaving ee do for minimal salary but required 45 hour minimum.. It is not orderable thru ordering system we use. Why? I also have found out from other managers in the area that they will not reimburse you. What do I do next? Besides quit as I'd love to but need replacement first.

So I work in an office-corporate-like environment. One of those ones where we sit in joined cubicles per department. Ever since I started working here I’ve had a problem with my now current boss. Her attitude sucks and I’ve never gotten along with her. She talks to everyone in a condescending tone and is a classic narcissist who only cares about talking about personal things if it has to do with herself. It seems as though every time someone asks her a question about our job it’s met with attitude like we should know what we’re doing and it’s a bother to ask her any questions. It really bothers me when she does this to fairly new people that really don’t know the job fully yet. She did this to me before she rose to the position she’s in now. It got to the point to where I had to…

So I work in retail and I got called in to work while on my vacation. I work part-time in a store that has several stores around the country. Two days before the start of my vacation my manager told me that I’d be working on my first day of vacation in a store that is about 1.5 hours away by train. Normally they ask, but this time it was really no debate or question. And I’m extremely pissed.

I’m a Digital Marketing Specialist and I’ve been looking around on Indeed and LinkedIn for fun. Applied to a few listings that were titled “Marketing Associate”, “Sales & Marketing Representative”, “Marketing Assistant”, etc. Red flag number one, heard back almost immediately. I got on a call with the recruiter and scheduled an interview. Did some research on the agency and upon seeing their website I immediately knew they were an MLM (maybe I’m not using this correctly but let me explain). Red flag two, their website looked like it was built by a third grader using the early 2000s version of Wordpress. How are you going to call yourself a marketing agency and not have your website be somewhat visually optimized? Red flag three, their website mentioned nothing of basic marketing or digital marketing services. Nothing about web design, development, SEO, social media management, etc. I obviously did not proceed…

are there resources you recommend that are good at balancing anticapitalist values and prioritizing your needs while playing along enough to find and get a decent job? I feel like all of the things I want/need out of a job, the job search process, and job search resources are really reasonable and pretty intuitive to other working people, but they’re totally incompatible with the way most job resources work. Essentially, I know exactly what I want and need, but it’s impossible to ask for it or get a functional answer. I just want to look for jobs in a way that doesn’t make me want to die until I find a job that also doesn’t make me want to die do y’all have recommendations for the least-worst resources you’ve used? I’m looking for/open to: -both more concrete tools like job boards/things I can directly use to get a job and…

So I was fired for “discussing employee wages”, recorded it, am in process with the NLRB I also provided proof and documentation of letters we had to sign stating we would be fired for discussing. Then supplied internal email from C-Suite staff admitting to this practice. It seems open and closed. 8(a)(1) Concerted Activities (Retaliation, Discharge, Discipline) 8(a)(1) Coercive Rules 8(a)(1) Coercive Statements (Threats, Promises of Benefits, etc.) What I’m wondering is what sort of fines or actions will take place once this finishes out. I don’t plan to work for them again, but I’m curious as to make the most out of this for myself. Because fuck them