Author: Olivia

A fully staffed business is a minimally staffed business. Call in sick and you will see what I mean!

I've been in this company for about 5 months as a talent acquisition specialist. There are so many issues with recruitment and company practices – great topic for a different thread. The managers I work with are all panicking and I'm enjoying the satisfaction of seeing things fall apart (despite my recruitment efforts). My company shared an article with the town acquisition department discussing what gen z is looking for in the workforce. Compensation was fourth on the list after benefits and work-life balance. I have a hard time believing that compensation is really fourth…

I’m based in Ohio. I am paid hourly. Went out of town for a week for a work trip. Left my house Sunday(3/6/22) at 7:00am and arrived at the hotel at 2:15pm. Work days during the week were standard 8 hour work days. Leaving today right after I leave the job site straight to the airport and I will arrive at my home at 11:30 PM. So in total this is around 53 hours for the week. My boss is saying that travel time is not eligible for the overtime rate (1.5x) and I will be getting paid my normal hourly rate. I’ve looked online and I can’t find anything that clearly states this or refutes this, but it feels like I’m getting fucked. Am I eligible for the overtime pay? Apologies if this isn’t the correct place to post this but may members of this sub seem well versed…

I haven’t been with this company long and it is a fully remote call center job for about average starting wage/salary ~40k This week they just forced installation of Verint SDPA on everyone. I looked it up and it’s pretty gross. Literally captures application use, tabbing, even keystrokes. Moment to moment. The company boasts about increasing productivity of employees by coaching those who have any unplanned idle time. From a capitalist perspective it makes sense. Maximizing worker’s time-on-task moment to moment. Making sure your breaks are strictly adhered to. From a personal perspective it feels like being reduced to a machine, for 8 hours a day barely unable to even be human. The first thing I didn’t was try to look up if there’s any way to trick or sabotage the program. Doubtful that’s possible. My last job had other issues, but surveillance wasn’t really one of them thankfully. It…

Here in Minneapolis Teachers and their support staff are on strike. All staff members that are on strike have been removed from the public staff directory. All staff that have crossed the picket line are still listed on the staff directory. The staff directory is now a strike breaker look up list. TLDR; People cross the picket line against their striking co workers, district turns around and publicly outs them.

“Compliance is about the promise of safety and reassurance sold to us by powerful entities during times of vulnerability. Gangs, governments, demagogues, social media algorithms & religions seduce us with misleading untruths and comforting fables. They want us to join their narrow worldview in exchange for obedience and turning a blind eye to our own internal voice of reason & compassion. They just need our Compliance.” (Matt Bellamy)

The last few years I’ve finally had jobs where I mostly speak with people and work in an office. But I’ve spent years working in facilities where alarms and drills and screaming were just a constant whole 40 hours of the week. On top of it, I’ve spent years riding buses and trains that were set-up with total disregard for noise pollution. All of these were situations where adjustments could have made the environment much healthier for hearing but lazy managers and organizers just couldn’t be bothered to protect their pawns. Now, I’m white collar but I pretty regularly fear the day when my hearing starts going in a big way, probably just as I’m hitting my stride career wise and I end up functionally disabled. So stupid and selfish.