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Lost my dream job because the new CEO doesn’t ‘get’ what I do

This is a bit of a weird one. I left my previous job as my boss was a psycho, the company was headquartered in another country and he ran our lab like it was is own personal empire. I wanted out so took a job with an environmental charity who was expanding into producing their own scientific research. The pay was half of what I was making previously but they offered decent benefits, flexible working hours and 7 weeks PTO. I wasn't exactly thrilled with the idea of the job, the lab was still being built and the overall goals were very loose but it was an exit. It turned out to be my dream job! Over 3 years we built the lab to study and improve food security. We started producing some really well received work and saw our rep go from nothing to something that everyone wanted in…

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I have to have permission to have a second part time job?

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They say death is the Great Equalizer, but

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Yeah, that trick doesn’t work on me.

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Can I get my bank to stop charging maintenance fees?

TD Bank, United States

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When business owners are caught rock and hard place

So my dentist is a friend as well as the person who nags me about my teeth. 🙂 She has always had a busy office, and the dental hygienists are always pretty friendly. They rotated on a multi year scale. One would get hired, work there for some years, then leave and move on. Now? She can’t find any. I asked her why. She told me that she pays very well, (about 100k a year with bennies and such) but that all the hygienists want to work from an agency and have weird hours. She has to puzzle piece together a schedule to have a hygienist in for office hours. Do-able but time consuming and frustrating. The other problem is that she can’t pay them much more because the dental insurance companies haven’t raised their remuneration rates since 2011. (Yelta Yental is just an fake example company to illustrate) So…

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Yup bc you can’t pay us yourself

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Been at my job 15 years, going to quit by the summer – can i go “negative” to try to get a package?

Based in Ontario Canada – 15 years. -toxic work environment since our company was sold and we are now massive., he's rude, makes jokes about females, i complained to his boss after he said very vulgar things and my boss found out i complained said he “would get me”. Major issue is they just changed our commission plan last month, and i will make 50% less then i have ever made. -I saw a lawyer, they said i need to quit then they will fire off a letter “constructive dismissal ” for all the issues. They said it's a dice roll since we are a massive company they may tell us to take a hike and lawyer fees will be around $2,000.00. Looking for advice if i should just go negative instead in hopes of getting a package to stay quiet since i've been around for 15 year? Can i…

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Putin puts Russia’s nuclear forces on alert, cites sanctions

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-kyiv-business-europe-moscow-2e4e1cf784f22b6afbe5a2f936725550 KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — In a dramatic escalation of East-West tensions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin ordered Russian nuclear deterrent forces put on high alert Sunday in response to what he called “aggressive statements” by leading NATO powers. The order means Putin has ordered Russia’s nuclear weapons prepared for increased readiness to launch, raising the threat that the tensions could boil over into a nuclear war. In giving it, the Russian leader also cited hard-hitting financial sanctions imposed by the West against Russia, including Putin himself.

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Why waste my life making me read this? Turns out pay was less than $12 an hour.