Excerpt: “The Flint sit-down strike that brought General Motors to its knees in 1937 won recognition for the United Auto Workers because the workers seized the key Chevy 4 engine plant that supplied the other plants in Flint and beyond. With today’s tightening of supply chains and the proliferation of vulnerable points in both production and transportation, this type of strategic thinking and acting can aid not only in winning gains for union workers but also in organizing the unorganized.”
Original thread TLDR – I need to craft the perfect text response to a low-ball offer sent to me via text. EDIT: Based on another comment from another sub, I probably won't be making up fake offers here (if I intend to keep a good relationship into the future if I refuse now). So all in all they rejected my first offer and is now offering a new one at $1 less, which is the “highest we can go” offer. I now want to rescind my original offer with a new one that's even higher. I was actually waiting for them to call so I could tell them about a new “fake” job offer that upped my original bid + 10% more since I told them I was potentially going back to X place as of yesterday. I am absolutely not going to give in to their current offer. Btw,…
I was out of work for 8 days back in March. I put in an fmla request my company gives 6 weeks paid fmla no questions asked. Still haven't gotten the money from it. Not sure exactly what happened with this past paycheck on Friday but I only got half. Had a complication from my surgery in March come up so I had to go back in for another emergency operation i was not planning to have any time soon or at all. Called about 20 minutes ago to put in another fmla for my recovery period and I also have a note from my surgeon saying I should stay out of work for x amount of time. I will be out of work for the next 7 days and guess what? There's a 6 day waiting period you don't get paid when you put in the request that no…
Felt this would be the best sub to post this is. We get reminders at work, inside the handbook, and through text! Which to note, I got the raise because legally they had to move me from 11.5 to 12 an hour (IL). I'm aware my coworker makes 14.5, (same age, same job, only a bit more experience) the reminders make me want to talk about it LOL. I've been told by a teacher to ask for better pay but you really can't. It's humorous listening to my rights as an employee or a consumer only for them to be taken away with no real consequence.
I'm writing in to say I've completely given up on job searching it's not even a numbers game anymore I closed off my linkedin/indeed accounts, I hope everyone else on this sub has better luck and a brighter future than me
I’m almost thirty and have severe job insecurity anxiety (worsened after getting laid off in April). I love crafting and gaming but I have to make enough to survive. I’m not good enough at any of them to make a decent living as far as I can see. If I could I’d disappear into the woods somewhere and be some poor town’s local cryptid but I I have animals and people to take care of. Any advice on how to survive this capitalistic hell hole without getting dragged back into the corporate world?
Hello, I was laid-off this week out of nowhere, they told me on Tuesday morning and 10 minutes later I had no access to anything. Couldn't even say goodbye. Another 7 people were affected too. The thing is that the company organizes a summer retreat and I had already purchased flights, that were to be reimbursed after the flight was taken. Now that I'm not part of the company, I'm obviously not attending said retreat, and when asked about reimbursement, they said that I could get a credit from the airline and use it for a future trip. This does not sit well with me. First, as I'm unemployed right now I am not going to be taking any trips soon, and second, it was $225. That's a whole month worth of food for me. Is this legal? Is there anything I can do for them to reimburse me? For…
I hate it. Probably if I was making CEO money I, too, would. But since I'm not, it's just “not worth it”