Month: November 2023

I don't care which side you're on. But I've been trying to move jobs. In support of Palestine I made my profile pic I stand with Palestine. My dad told me that he got a message from a friend where I'm trying to get a job and he said my profile pic got me turned down for an interview. I feel like that's illegal and discrimination.

As the title says, she worked as a Veterinarian Technician and was just fired out of the blue. The only reason she was given was “It's a business change”. She will be receiving two weeks pay from this which is the silver lining, however, I am wondering if this is a valid reason for being terminated seemingly out of nowhere.

Recently hung out w a friend & they were talking about how they don’t want to work. Which I completely get & agree with. But I feel like now it’s just a trendy thing to say. Bc really who wants to work? My thing is then what? Start a business, marry rich, rob a bank? I feel like ppl just stop at the not wanting to work part, to the point it sounds like a fantasy. If they were like they don’t seek material possessions & will live modestly then ok, but they don’t say that. I thought the fact that most ppl don’t want to work was common sense. We want money. But then I’m thinking of the fact that maybe some ppl really are just now realizing that they don’t want to work yk? Like I felt the “I don’t want to work” thing when I had my…

In lieu of a pizza party we got home made apple crisp. And this is a “good” thing. Apparently. 🤦‍️

This one took the cake. Applied to a full-time position with a company where I would be doing merchandising and warehouse type work. Initial phone interview went great, then had an interview with that person and another over Zoom. That went great too, but at some point they mentioned the original full-time position had been filled with a current employee and that the role I was going for was part-time. I was okay with that, in truth, because I also do ride-share driving. So, they want to offer me the job, pay would be $17/hr with basically no benefits. Told them thank you but I would like an offer letter and then I will respond back. In the email responding back I note that the pay is not in the range I thought it would be (somewhere between $20-25/hr). He reminds me that this isn't for the full time role…

I got a new required online training assigned to me out of nowhere, and it turns out to be about how to make sure our employees never unionize. I know this is legal but im horrified. Is there anything I can do? I know this training is perfectly legal even if it’s very misleading (like saying unions are for-profit billion dollar industries who don’t actually care about workers). I support workers fully understanding all options to protect their rights. I don’t want to support this bullshit but I also don’t want to get fired.

It just seems like the whole 21 st century has been utter trash. The 2000s came in with the 9/11 attacks, the dot-com burst and the GFC which expanded throughout the whole 2010s with its aftermaths and people never really recovered. War on Terror escalated and Europe was getting invaded and at the same time going through a very difficult economic pain and then 2016 comes up, Brexit happens, politics become very divisive and then COVID is the final nail in the coffin. For a while it seemed like the economy was going to go well around 2017-2019 and then things bounce back to again… Past generations have had it fair enough where they at least got to experience a time of peace and economic prosperity after tough times but it seems like in the 21 st century, every decade gets worse and worse as it passes on..

Last year, I took a route delivery job. I worked there for four days and quit. Shitty hours, less pay than what they initially said up front, and only five (yes, you read that right) PTO days for the entire calendar year.

I apologize for any grammatical errors in advance as I'm typing this on my phone , Background: So I started working at this company for 11 months , 6 months as temp agency employee and 5 months hired full time.The type of job I do is assembly work for electrical switchgears I have tons of experience in mechanical assembly which correlates to this job. The issues: So in the department I'm currently in there are two employees who have been there for over 10 years , I understand the concept of newer employees doing grunt work until they're fully train or competent enough to complete the task at hand. But the problem is I have been here for 11 months and I have demonstrated the knowledge that is required to complete the assembly work based upon the business needs but these two employees are literally giving me all the grunt…