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So, today I got screwed by my employer of 4 years

So, I’ve been working for a wholesale distributor of HVAC Equipment & supplies since 2019, making $16 at hire while having to travel an hr out of my way at times since the branch I was hired to be at wasn’t making enough revenue. (I got a raise to $17.50 / hr once a warehouse guy got hired) Meanwhile I had learned to do nearly everything from handling customers, doing night deposits, LTL shipping/ receiving & the like. So the time finally came for an opportunity to become manager since my last boss took a position at a larger branch. I applied for the job back in June / July of last year and had to essentially do my job as the counter guy, the manager and do half of the warehouse guy’s job (since he has an attitude) up until today when I found out that they decided to…

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I just completed a “Virtual Interview” where I had to record video responses to written questions, then write responses to hypothetical emails.

Does anybody have any experience with this format? I applied about two weeks ago and haven’t received an actual call, just an automated email to this thing. What are your thoughts on this format as opposed to a screening call? It took 45 minutes. No personality test yet. Fingers crossed.

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Do you ever think how are we all alive ? How are we on this planet in the middle of a massive solar system. How is any of this real like what really matters ?

I just wonder sometimes how is everything real. How the hell did we get here and what really matters ? Life is a mystery to me. I'm not gonna say I'm not religious or am but really think about it. How are we here and why? How tf did a God or a ( big bang lol ) create everything all of this like how the hell am I typing this message on a device to an app that serves millions of people with one click? I'm not looking for well god made this and did this because of this ( I dont believe there's anyway possible unless you are 100000 years old that you have the answers or know because of a ” book “. Not agreeing with you or disagreeing with you . But really what happens when we die. Do we come back and do it all…

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Just found out the retail store mangers who fired me for reporting them to corporate are getting sued because a rape happened.

i took a job at a major retail big box store, while there management overlooked all sorts of sexual impropriety involving young girls and female minors. i reported it to corporate and corporate came down busted their asses and then local management turned around and cut my hours to zero so i had to quit and my life has went to shit since. i have now been notified by one of the people i worked with and a person fired in my wake because i taught them how to game the ethics complaint system that the store is being sued and it impacts me. the store and the managers i turned in are being sued because the people i reported continued to ignore the sexual misconduct and a seventeen year old girl was raped by an older coworker in his mid twenties. the coworker also told me to be prepared…

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the world is such a fucked up place right now

the world is such a fucked up place right now and I can't do anything about it. it's so frustrating how you either waste many MANY hours of your life stupidly memorizing information that you will never use again in your life or you just have to live a mediocre life flipping burgers for minimum wage. everyone can be good at something, it doesn't have to be studying and memorizing useless information. why can't I be a fucking good carpenter (for example) which is useful for society and not get shamed by everyone around me for having not being highly educated and earning barely enough money to do anything. everyone should be able to do whatever the fuuuuck they want if they are a useful part of society, good food, a good place to live, doing whatever activity they want. I honestly, genuinely do not want to be a part…

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If you have Hulu, this is a great antiwork movie documentary. The cult of WeWork is truly horrifying.

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SoftGrid: The Indian tech firm forcing staff to go home on time

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This country deems standing behind a cash register more “valuable” than helping anyone or anything in need.

I’ve been cleaning up litter for a while now. I do this on my own, not through any organization nor for any monetary pay. I do this because it needs to be done. I’ve also volunteered, in the past, to help with animals as well as the homeless. I have never seen a dime for this type of work, which is desperately needed, more so than any help I can ever give. Meanwhile, I’ll fucking starve if I don’t sell my time to some unnecessary business to do a bullshit job. I’m told I don’t have any skills, when, in reality, I just don’t have any skills that business owners can easily exploit. Can they identify wild flora? Do they know how to dispose of different types of waste? Do they know how to properly care for a sick or an injured dog? Do they know how to comfort someone…

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You need to detach and ‘psychologically recover’ from work, professors say. The solution: more desperate article about returning to the office

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At my workplace, water leaks into the fuse box when it rains.