Author: Olivia

Amazon offers people who live in trailers and rvs areas to live if they work for them. You can easily live in an rv or trailer for under 10k a year. You would only need to work 2-3 days a year to support yourself.

So I recently found out my job which I only joined a few months ago is been outsourced to Mexico and Eastern Europe. It was remote work so I guess it was an illusion. So we all lose our jobs on two teams at some unknown date soon, never officially announced but a leak from above and later confirmed by trustworthy sources. Why even hire in the first place ? Left a stable job to be thrown under a bus. But I guess that's the way of bottom feeding corporations. Already applying for new jobs and planning on emigrating away from the tax haven for the wealthy I live in.

We're in Florida 🤢 My friend says that he worked for 4 weeks with a company that sells phones in Walmart a few months ago and never saw a dime of compensation. The amount promised was over $2000. He has some level of documentation. We're labor rights novices, but I knew atleast to turn to this community. Where do I start with helping my friend out?

So I quit my job yesterday. I was a welder working in trailer manufacturing and had been there for just over 2 years. Going in, I knew that the pay wasn't going to be stellar, but they were willing to train me and it would get me out of customer service jobs. When I got hired, I was told it would take 3 months to train into being a welder. I did it in 2. When we all had to get recertified (not AWS), I was 1 of 4 people that passed all 3 parts of the test on the first try. I was 1 of 2 (MAYBE 3) people on the entire site that can run the plas table and band saw. I had seniority over everyone left in my line and could handle just about any task in it. The company had been hemorrhaging their tenured employees because…

I work outdoors in BC (tourism industry) and have dealt with bad air qualities (at times the worst air quality on the planet with low to no visibility and ashes falling from the sky and coating vehicles) for 3 bad summers over the last 6. I’ve noticed the toll breathing in this smoke has had on my body. Also was not given any protective equipment for these conditions from my work and no hazard pay etc. Do you think that’s grounds for compensation of some sort for unsafe work conditions? My only alternative would have been to quit. But that’s easier said than done in this economy as I can’t really afford to stop working. Thanks for any advice.

I work as customer support for a small company, and the job description did include “work on projects,” but I didn't expect them to have me as their fucking graphic designer. Sure, it's on my resume as part of my experience, but to have me do graphic design which takes up SO much of my time, on top of continuing to do customer support full time is so draining. I seriously do not feel like a customer support agent sometimes, considering how many other projects I'm doing for the company. I don't know why, but when my boss said “have fun with the project!” it pissed me off so bad. I think that he thinks that this is something that I enjoy doing just because it's on my resume and something I used to do as a hobby. He thinks he's doing me a favor my giving me these projects…

I've been watching the tech layoffs, and I think it's happening to push people back into the office. I've been told directly investors are pressuring startup founders to get people back into the office, I wouldn't doubt if the same is happening with the larger companies. I also witnessed many many investors buying up property during Covid lockdowns. There isn't a recession, layoffs are for another reason. Executives are losing money because office buildings are sitting empty, and remote employees are saying no to going back into the office. If executives force people out of their jobs, positions will become more scarce and people will be more likely to go into office.