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“Involuntary Separation”

That’s how my company announced 90 people getting fired last week. Along with another program offering 670 early retirement packages that you have 10 days to accept or decline. They promise if you don’t take it you also won’t be “involuntarily separated” in the l future. Thankfully, my friends and I are all in the Union and they legally can’t ask us or fire us with our cause. One of my coworkers supervisor was “offered” it. He’s only 55 and at 60, when he wanted to retire he would have 30 years so his pension would have been pretty good. But if he accepts the buyout, he’ll lose out.

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31-year-old self-made millionaire: 2 costs he finds worth the money, even if he’s usually frugal

Spoiler – they got 6 figure jobs in their early 20s, saved 80% of it, and became landlords and sold how to guides for getting rich.

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No poor countries, just poor people

Another social media find.

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Applied for an entry-level position today. Got shot down. Feedback they gave was that I don’t have enough recent experience.

I'm exploring a career change. I've always worked in education, but it's kind of a dead-end income wise. Thought I'd like to start over working in the industry. So I applied to a job that only requires a high school diploma even though I have a bachelors in order to gain experience. Shot me down because my experience is not recent. WTF

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If i saw my boss with this I’d immediately resign.

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WTF does a company get off asking this? My preferred gender is one thing but my sexual orientation?

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My now Ex-boss got his revenge on me for getting him suspended by ramming his truck into my vehicle, caught on video surveillance. Police won’t arrest him despite the evidence, claims it was an accident. Auto-shop that gave the footage won’t fix the tire damage even after witnessing the crime.

​ Video of Boss ramming through my vehicle and throwing it back. I'll start with some background first about how this all started: Due to politics and bigoted Ideology of my Boss I was fired by him around a month back and had to cancel plans to treat my daughter (who's trans) and had to find a new job and other methods to help them. In fact the whole issue was he already knew beforehand about my daughter, but he was just waiting for an excuse to snap and did so, all because of his delusions that I would rather not go over, bottom-line he was just a bigot (and sadly some people here were too when that thread went up) who also made horrible racist outbursts, which I did record. Against concerns, I decided to send part of what I had recorded anyway to HQ, which originally and after…

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Message to future me: HR is not there for you, they’re there for the company. The house always wins.

Sending this message as I am currently involved in a stressful situation at my job and am preparing to email HR for help. To be continued.

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AI as a tool for controlling people is much more likely than it replacing the workforce

Its hard to train machines to do so many of the tasks that are physically required of humans. Its easier to just make a strict system of AI and laws to keep people working. I know this is nothing new but people are worried about the wrong things when it comes to AI. We won't get replaced and put on universal basic income. We'll be streamlined into manual and crappy bottom rug jobs

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I’ve bitten my tongue too many times