Author: Olivia

I want to vent about the violence teachers experience at work. Earlier this week there were several simultaneous fights at my school and adults were hurt. A student brought a weapon to the middle school with the intent of murdering another student. I've never witnessed anything like it and am just dead inside. Today, two teachers were shot at a high school where many of my former students attend. It was their third lockdown this year. School is cancelled for the rest of the week. It pisses me off that my school has provided no relief for teachers or students after an attempted murder. They should have cancelled school for a day so the adults could process. The student with the weapon will be gone from school for less than two weeks. Everything is just fucked up right now. We all know that gun and school violence is here to…

I found out my last day will be in a couple months. The response was prompted through questions about the companies ability to provide future work. Apparently they don’t have any work lined up after my current project wraps. What’s my best way to protect myself? I have two concerns: they’ll manufacture a way to fire me before then or they’ll try to avoid paying unemployment after my last day. What can I do to protect myself? Is it worth sending an email documenting the conversation?

And you're forced to kind of defend it, but on the inside you wanna go “dude, fuck this place too but I can't because I'm underpaid n shit”

Ok first post here, I'm a truck driver in Boston and have had enough of people in general. I'm sick of working. I've been following this page for a week now and I'm wondering how and why don't we try and organize a nationwide, or even better a worldwide strike? How and what do you think the ramifications would be? Nobody wants to work we are slaves to an extent. My theory on slavery is they just changed the title to employed. Your thoughts? Thanks.

Companies don't seem to want to acknowledge inflation when it comes to hiring consultants and contractors. I just raised hourly rates for the contractors on my teams because I assume they are feeling the inflation pinch. Yet, when I increase what I bill the client, they are balking at the higher prices. Why do they think we can do the same work for what it cost 5 years ago?

Hi all, first post here. Tldr: how do you shut down patronising people at your work without being in the wrong for seeming aggressive? I'm dealing with patronising staff at work, they are knowingly doing this as well and I'm tired of complaining to higher ups and it going nowhere. I know I won't face disciplinary measures if I do it once, but I'd really like to shut it down next time and make it clear I won't accept that behaviour and that I'll call them out for each time it happens in future. Not looking to be confrontational really although I won't feel bad if they perceive it as so since my argument will be that it's a cowards way to annoy someone since they can hide behind gaslighting me as taking it the wrong way and they know they won't face any punishment for it. But I'd regard…