Just got back from circle k, they're doing a sales competition (location that sells the most cookies gets a bonus) Cookies aren't so expensive that it's a problem to buy, but they're gas station cookies–how much could it have cost to make these in bulk? Just frustrated that the majority of the profit from selling the cookies goes to shareholders and directors. They didn't bake the cookies, they aren't selling the cookies, they just own the company and told their workers “if you try harder, you *might* get paid more”. Everybody works harder except the people at the top and only a couple of people who are working hard gets some small share of the profit generated by working harder. it's frustrating but I still bought the cookies at the end of the day, what can I do as a customer to directly help the workers and not the shareholders?
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I work as a PM for a project based company. Company's revenue has been trippled this year from past two years but same no.of people are working. Therefore everyone is overworked and unhappy. Now my for my project only me and my boss are working. I work more that 50 hrs a week due to my 8.45 hrs working everyday. I give my 100% when I am at work and try to do as much as tasks within the day. But due to high workload, I am not able to complete all the tasks. My boss wants me to work overtime and on weekends. He is like my happy days are over and I should constantly be overworked and brain drained. He makes me guilty for not staying back after work hours.As a PM the work I do everyday is mostly about solving problems of the project which is time…
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No! Not Martha….
https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/06/business/martha-stewart-slams-hybrid-work/index.html “Look at the success of France with their stupid … you know, off for August, blah blah blah. That’s not a very thriving country. Should America go down the drain because people don’t want to go back to work?” Stewart told the magazine that she is on a “rampage” to get people in the United States back into offices. Stewart is not the only high-profile figure strongly advocating for in-person work. The CEOs of many banks, including Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, asked some employees to return to work five days a week in the last two years. More recently, Telsa’s CEO Elon Musk came down even harder on the work-from-home trend, calling it “morally wrong.”
29F, I’ve been supporting myself since I turned 18 and got thrown out of the house for standing up to my dad. I managed to finish my final months of high school and graduate from my aunt’s couch but I went straight into the working force, deciding I had very few options with no guidance. I have worked at least 40 hours a week since 2012, very rarely was I unemployed for long periods of time and often I had two jobs at once just to pay the bills and have small necessities in life. Yet at this point I can’t afford an apartment with a stove or a kitchen sink. My car was once my freedom but now the payment and insurance is a necessary evil to get me to and from a job to pay for said car and housing. I felt like I was finally ready to…
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Why do I constantly need to be busy?
Yesterday, I was told “stay busy today! There's x, y, and z to do! If you finish everything come find me and I'll give you more stuff” meanwhile, you go to another department and they're just chilling doing work as it comes. No micromanagement, everyone works cohesive with 0 issues. Like. Stop treating us like children, if there's nothing to do, I'm going to take a breather.
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Loved this video.
Loved this video and thought I would share. Apologies if it has been shared before or is not allowed.
In an effort to transition PGA of America away from a traditional golfing organization that employs full-time professional players, the organization recently announced that it plans to merge with LIV. The move comes as part of a larger overhaul of the organization with the emphasis being shifted away from professional golfers and the payouts those players can expect for making the tour. Prior to the merger of PGA and LIV, PGA of America actively campaigned against golfers working with LIV. PGA was vocal about its opposition to LIV, citing its unprofessionalism, its lack of profitability, and its unfair treatment of golfers, among other things. PGA of America also argued that LIV didn’t provide adequate healthcare and retirement benefits for golfers, leaving them vulnerable to exploitation. Anotherl major issue PGA of America took with LIV was their connection to the Saudi Arabian government. Due to the oppressive human rights violations and…
I just need to rant. There's been illness going around the area. I am pregnant, and don't want to get sick because I can't use any good cold meds, and when I get sick I usually lose my voice and my job involves a lot of talking, so I'd have to use sick time (which I don't have much of at all). Thankfully, my job is heavily remote and my husband commutes to an area that doesn't seem to be having this issue, so I've been able to avoid contracting anything so far. I work remotely 4 days a week, so I reached out to my coworkers to ask if they're feeling okay because my in-office day is coming up and I don't wanna come in if they're sick. They said they're not, so that's good and I'll go in, but then one started BRAGGING about coming into the office…
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Let’s stop calling it 40 hour work week
Because two people need to do it. Back when it was called 40 hour work week, only men worked, so on an average, a couple worked 40 hour weeks. Now, a couple works 80 hours. They are the ones that need couples to create families to produce children to feed their capitalist machine, so this is super relevant to them. So, from now on, let's call it a 80 hour work week, because it sounds much more accurate than 40 hour work week. Companies measuring man-hours (however dumb the metric is) always multiply hours by manpower, and we should do the same.