Author: Olivia

if you absolutly have to get a job then find another co worker to bargain with them to your boss for a raise, cuz of fdr era laws like National Labor Relations Act you cannot get any retaliation for it this obviously only works in the us cuz of this law but many other countries likely got something like this cuz they have something called rights at your job

My company is almost 100% remote work from home and has been for almost 3 years now. There's only a couple of positions that have to be in the office. I'm not in any of those positions, however we have a mass meeting we're being required to attend in the office. They're telling us travel time will not be paid, but the meeting will. It's in the middle of the work day, so we have to clock out to get there, not clock back in until we get home, and they'll add the meeting time for us. We're expected to make up the time that day or use our vacation time. This honestly isn't a massive deal for me since I like 7 minutes from the office, but we've got some employees who live an hour away. I feel like the travel time should be paid, since it's absolutely mandatory…

I don't usually post here but today kind of had me thinking about how blue collar labor here in America is really fucked right now, at least where I am. I hope this isn't too wordy but if it is oh well, half story and the other half is a thought piece I guess. I work in an industrial plant, we create forklift counterweights out of hot iron (iron so hot jt can literally melt your skin off to the bone no joke) Currently I am in an area where the forklift piece is knocked out of its mold, it's my job to pick up the hot iron slag, plastic and sand and such and dispose of it in a timely manner using various tools such as a sledgehammer iron rake and good ol elbow grease which there is a lot of because it's hot as fuck. My co worker…