Author: Olivia

I work for a huge payroll company, and my job is currently work from home due to the pandemic. Because of COVID, we lost a HUGE chunk of our staff. Because of that, they are overworking the crap out of all of us. Now, that sounds normal, right? Well, it isn’t. We are being overworked because corporate keeps bringing in new clients, knowing damn well that they don’t have enough employees to keep up with the huge volume of clients. Wouldn’t the solution be to hire more people? They claim “hundreds of employees will join us by March.” However, neither myself or my coworkers ever see job postings anywhere for our company. Ever. You may ask why they can’t keep employees. Well, we are being paid $16.50/hr to literally run around like chickens with our heads cuts off. They force us to take care of other employee’s clients simply because…

My workplace had to shut down today for the next 10 days due to everyone taking advantage of the Canadian govt benefits (You qualify if you “MAY” have Covid, anyone could have it) once everyone found out they’ll earn more from that and have to do no work. Boss is pissed. Everyone’s doing it because the govt actually pays more. Wouldn’t be shut down if he paid more but instead of doing that he’s going to take the loss. Yay Canada

What do you think would happen, how do you think it would go if America, as a whole, unionized? Rather then all the different fields and trades unionizing or attempting to unionize on their own, could the entire work force of citizens unionize together?

My husband is a construction site supervisor for a small company. Beyond being the site supervisor he also is expected to do the construction work and pickup the materials and do anything else his boss decides to heap on him that day. His boss is a very unorganized person and he often likes to throw my husband under the bus to save face to the customers. His boss currently took a job that's an hour and a half away and all my husband's coworkers are getting paid travel time but my husband isn't because he is the only worker that's paid a salary instead of hourly. There is no benefits. He gets the minimum vacation time although his boss gets very upset when my husband takes time off because the whole company has to shut down whenever my husband takes time off because things don't get done when my husband…

As far as I understand, all universities/colleges (don't know what's the exact difference) in the US are paid, and are very expensive. You got to take a loan to study. And most of somehow paid jobs necessarily require a degree. It's obvious that most of your education today you gain on the internet or doind an actual job and earning yourself an experience. But you always need a diploma to “prove” that you are capable of doing your job. So, in fact, an university degree actually works as a “job permission”? I know that many people go to the military before/after getting their degree, because it is quite a good payed job so they could use that money to cover their student debt. And that is one of the reasons why there's so many military US bases across the world. Looks like government forces young people to go to the…