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Can anyone afford time off?
Author: Olivia
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Left job for one that pays half as much
Since September I’ve been working as a temp at a factory across town that pays really well but the hours are brutal. Rotating 12 hour shifts from days to nights every 2 weeks. I feel like my brain has melted since taking the job. My coworkers who have stuck it out longer than a couple years all say the same thing. “You never get used to it..” A lot of people had this weird obsession with the place. I still remember my coworker asking “why do I never see your name on the overtime board?” after we worked a 60 hour week. Anyway i finally decided screw them, and their rotating shifts. Besides, they had 6 months to sign me on permanently and instead opted to pay me $10 less than everyone else doing the same job. I’m starting a new job next week working for an online candy store…
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Find a better job Saturdays
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Everyone got this email this morning
Im a nurse at a unionized hospital. Nurses are notorious for working OT, skipping breaks, staying late, etc. I refuse to do any of those things and my coworkers hate me for it. I tell them that if they keep agreeing to work extra and understaffed then what incentive does management have to hire more nurses? They tell me they feel sorry for managers bc they work so hard. Im not sure how they know they are working so hard considering that we never see management and all scheduling and issues are now handled by the charge nurse. They seem to worship management, always covering for them, buying them gifts, etc. When I moved to a morning shift a few years back my coworkers tried to pressure me into coming in an entire hour early unpaid to set up for the day. That’s what they all had been doing for…
Listen to this clown: “We’ve heard from Googlers that those who spend at least three days a week in the office feel more connected to other Googlers, and that this effect is magnified when teammates work from the same location,” Cicconi said in the memo. “Of course, not everyone believes in ‘magical hallway conversations,’ but there’s no question that working together in the same room makes a positive difference.”
Surrounded by police and armed security. We’re out here making the best of it on the 3rd shift rotation.
A little rant. Based in NYC. Everyone in the office at my job has remote flexibility. About half stay home always and the rest come in 1-2x a week. I do not have this. I am an assistant and expected to be in the office in case someone needs me to look at a file, scan mail, etc. very old school non profit. I don’t even have a laptop in the event there’s a crisis and I can’t come in/need to wfh like if Covid randomly restarted. My supervisors usually come in a few times a week. Not sure if you’ve read in the news, but nyc is experiencing the worst air quality in its history. Our average is 30 micro particles and it’s been in the 300s. Everyone who’s hybrid and my supervisors opted to stay home all week due to the air but I have to schlep through…
My boss wants me to do his project for his Blue Belt course. For those unfamiliar, Blue Belt is part of Lean 6 Sigma. I am familiar with it, but I don’t even have a yellow certification. My direct manager assigned me to do a project revolving around high scrap, and it turns out the scrap was coming from crew members just straight up not doing their work. There’s 6+ months worth of video footage of them destroying product, parts of the machine, or just in the parking lot slacking off. Whatever, doesn’t matter. Today he pulled me aside and gave me a notebook and a Blue Belt workbook. He instructed me to write it as him (putting his name on the project) and to not tell anyone what I was doing, including the plant director. I have a gut feeling that I shouldn’t be doing this project, especially since…