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Being in a union isn’t what you think it is

I was fired from $45/hr+ job as a 4th year apprentice union job for reporting to my OWN union representative in my company for miss filing my 401A contributions (not just me the whole company). I did all my research on what the unions and workplace responsibilities were. After I questioned both I was blatantly lied to. Tried going to the local labor board they said that was between and my union. I tried to filed a grievance by with my union to try and get something done I was kicked out of the union hall, not removed just physically walked out. (I was acting professional because I didn't want to give them any excuse for anything) I contacted about 8 lawyers to try and get anything done and practically 0% help besides telling me to go to downtown LA and find a million dollar lawyer cause that would be…

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I don’t give a fuck

I don’t give a fuck about unions I don’t give a fuck about work hours I don’t give a fuck about benefits I don’t give a fuck about wages I don’t give a fuck about policies I don’t give a fuck about the world I’m an anarchist I don’t even give a fuck if people have a driving license I just hate work Stop whining steal from your job mess it up fuck your bosses and everyone complying with that

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Opinion: The modern American higher educational system is equivalent to the miner’s company store of old

First and foremost I am not anti-intellectual and I am not anti-education. Very far from it in fact. I just believe that the quality of education in America is on par with the food provided at a public school. College education has, especially for the last two generations, been treated as an absolute necessity to have any hope of living a financially stable life. The thing is, many statistics show (please feel free to correct me if I am wrong here) that less than 50% of college grads find a job in their studied field. On top of that student loans are the only type of debt that cannot be discharged under any circumstances except for death (and they'll still chase your estate if you have one). All signed up for by 17 and 18 year old young adults with absolutely no real concept of the working world and surviving…

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I have a question?

Am i crazy to stay at the job i just started 7 months ago, after my team keeps beeing told quote “we need 5 more employees but we're only hiring one at the moment”, Ever sense i started its been less and less employees on the smallest damn department i ever seen, we're basicly between 4 drives and 4 crew, spread out thru the week so some days theres at the most 5 employees and expected to do the same job as 13 employees a week supposed to do THIS IS SO RIDICULOUS AND EMBARRASSING FOR SUCH RICH COMPANY, THIS MF REFUSE TO USE STORE REVENUE TO PAY THE EMPLOYEES AT ALL, AND SAY IT LIKE ITS A WIN FOR ANYONE WHO CANT EVEN AFFORD A LIVING AND HAS TO NOW WORK LIKE THERES 5 IMAGINARY EMPLOYEES MORE EVERYDAY

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Watch “Working Hard, or Hardly Working?” on YouTube

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How soon into one’s employment is it reasonable to ask for/expect a raise?

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Does this song perfectly capture the sprit of antiwork?

I was listening to “9-5er's Anthem” by Aesop Rock today, and the hook just stirred up some feelings in me and made me think about you guys. Have you heard it before? Here is the hook from the song, and a link to it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3tZtish6RPU?t=181 Now we the American working population hate the fact that eight hours a day is wasted on chasing the dream of someone that isn't us. And we may not hate our jobs but we hate jobs in general that don't have to do with fighting our own causes. We the American working population hate the nine-to-five day-in day-out when we'd rather be supporting ourselves by being paid to perfect the pastimes that we have harbored based solely on the fact that it makes us smile if it sounds dope Edit: formatting

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Any web programmers here?

Working on a site we can submit anonymized pay stubs to encourage pay transparency and could use another web programmer for the entire file upload logic im about to dive into. Figured I’d ask fellow fed up proletariats No functional form and prototype site here http://salareeeee.us.lurkerlordx.com/submit.php

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New Strat!!!!

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haveing trouble seeing these as a good thing

found out today our local dollar store has replaced all cashiers with self serves. they are no longer hireing cuz they dont need cashiers anymore. alot of the jods in my area are cashier jobs. and these things are a good thing? we just lost a binch of jobs in a market that isnt producing replacment jobs. i was wondering why i wasnt hearing back when i tried to apply.