Month: November 2023

Elon is a little mad about facing powerful unions. https://fortune.com/europe/2023/11/24/elon-musk-tesla-labor-union-sweden-workers-strike-if-metall/amp/

I have an office job that is quite repetitive and to have a product many departments work simultaneously, one person in notified when one stage is completed to move to the next one. No biggie, right? Well, this person didn't do his job right and I get a passive agressive email for not scrutinizing his job before starting the next stage. We are all adults and every time they send an email I shouldn't feel like I need to grade their job, I have catched a few things here and there but it was literally the easiest scenario they could get and he still managed to mess it up. I'm not this person's boss and he has been here way before I was hired, why do they want to clean their hands on me?? If someone is getting clocked should be him for literally not doing his job. Inconsistencies on…

….My job starts you off with 24 hrs of PTO, or 3 eight hour shifts, for your first 3 years. Five years gets you five days, and so on, up to 25 years capping at 25 days. No sick time. You can still take unpaid time off, like you can request it and have it approved. But if it’s unpaid time off, you have to make the time up within the same calendar week, or else it counts against you as an attendance occurrence. Oh, and they’re paying us $12/hr. Don’t get me wrong, I like my job (call center) well enough. It’s fairly easy, low stress, and they let me work from home. I guess I would just like better benefits. There’s no reason to work this job, other than to avoid starving, which at such low pay, is a highly unrealistic expectation.

I’ve typically enjoyed my jobs, and I’ve had quite a few. I usually do 2-3 at any given time. I’ve always been able to get by, but last summer was hard. Out of desperation, I took a job that a major corporation has been trying to recruit me for over the past several years. There were reasons I hadn’t wanted to return to this industry, but I convinced myself it would be worthwhile. So I started the job, and on day 3, they made me sign a new contract with a load of stipulations no one mentioned during the 6 week hiring process. (I posted about this at the time, but I’m not sure if I deleted it or used a throwaway.) Among other things, the contract requires that if I quit in under a year, I must immediately pay $3k + $1k per month I stayed + any commissions…

This is an update to my previous For context: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/s/xkfJoGxaMW So I wasnt fired but I was written up and made to watch an anti-union video, ill probably be fired for what i told the “manager” lecturing me after, I told them “quit with the additude, all you do is sit in your office, you are not even a manager, you are a keyholder with a supiriority complex” She stomped off after that but idk I got a job lined up at hardees

I look forward to my new career.

We are the same age. Same level of experience. Different levels of privilege. He still went on to tell me I have the easiest job and should be grateful. How much more patronising could he be!?

I work for a fortune 200. Don’t work as many hours as they think. I’m guessing Microsoft is selling them tools to monitor my activity. Anyone have first hand knowledge?