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Question. Company fired me and wants laptop/monitor back.

Company fired me. I’m not really upset because they were assholes and the new manager that came in made it pretty clear he wanted me out day 1. They’ve sent a email asking for the company property back which is a monitor and laptop. They said they’ll send a label but i should have saved the original boxes and if I didn’t I need to go buy boxes and padding. My question is, what happens if I A) Refuse to send it back? And/or B) refuse unless they pay for the box? They’ve already sent my final check so they can’t threaten that. I don’t really care about the laptop (it’s so bad I never used it) and the monitor is fairly cheap ($97) but frankly I also mounted the monitor and I’ve moved since I started at the company so I have no earthly idea where the stand went…

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GALAXY BRAIN ALERT: Officials say improved working conditions could help with nurse retention

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The overtime pressure in modern work culture is absurd

At my job I try to go after 8.5 hours – with waking up, commuting and the 30 Min break I am allready using around half the day (12 hours) for work – I am not going to invest a single second more. And people look at me as if I was crazy. Last month I had 10 hours of overtime – and a colleague was joking how little that was – he had 30. After going through the overtime list I found out that most people had like 20-30 every month – some had 50-60 and the record were 150 hours of overtime in a single month! If I cant do the job in 40 hours – that means you need less work or a second person – like hell I am going to work at 110% and make 30 hours of overtime each month just so that you…

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The answer to the East Palestine disaster: Railroad workers’ control over safety and working conditions

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Bernie Sanders new book is also an audio book and read by the man himself. So even if you don’t have time for I read you can give it a listen

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Toyota accepts union demands for biggest wage hike in two decades

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Walmart and Home Depot are spending heaps of cash on pay raises because they can’t afford to lose workers

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Capitalism always makes the same argument. We’re the problem, not their record profits.

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But they’ll say we’re lazy and don’t wanna work