Antiwork

I work as a logistics associate at Harbor Freight, originally I enjoyed being here. It's close enough that I can walk, part time so I have more free time, semi decent pay. When I originally started last year they were pretty chill about meeting specific metrics goals, they understood It's a small town and that you can't sell the customer on everything, they just wanted you to try and give you suggestions that might help. Idk if corporate is coming down on the stores or what but they are now up our asses about every metric to the point they have suggested lying to customers in order to increase email capture during point of sale and are now timing our replenishment(restocking) by writing down when we start and when we finish. I will never understand the insane obsession that metrics have to always go up, especially in small town. Eventually…

I shit you not, they fired me and posted on indeed with the same job but changed it to 'digital marketing trainee'. These people have zero experience training anyone in digital marketing. If I'm allowed to post the indeed link please can we get a mass report of the listing going? They're absolute cowboys taking advantage of people's good faith. I did a BUNCH of work for them thinking we were going to grow the business and that I was going to run my own department etc (something I've really wanted to do for a couple years now) so I left my job for these guys and now I'm out of a job lol. Fuck it, it's Panda Media Productions in Brighouse UK on indeed, fill your boots. They're a 'small family company' that just loves scalping people because it's much easier than doing the work themselves.

I'm almost 33 years old, I have a BA and a MA, will start a new job in september for around 40 000 euros (45 000 dollars, although if I was living in the USA it would probably be closer to something like 70k on average for the same type of job comparatively, which means I'm not doing too bad), and I'll never be able to buy a house in an attractive city: Buying a 95 sqm appartment where I live (Lyon, second economic city of France) would cost me 800 000 dollars. So let's not even talk about buying a house. The only hope I have is an extremely cynical one, which I loathe: my father happens to be wealthy (owning a home of 1 250 000 dollars house and a 780 000 dollars appartment, plus he's got some money), and I'm supposed to inherit half of that with…

First let me tell you about this Thing called Berufsgenossenschaft (BG) we have in Germany. It's a mandatory insurance paid by the company. If you have an incident at work or longterm damage the BG pays for healthcare, rehab and even retraining for another job. But since they don't want to pay for situations that are man-made they even are in charge of safety regulations and to random safety checks. The fee which the company has to pay depends on the amount of incidents and such that happen. So here is the situation. A few weeks ago I slipped at work and fell on my left arm. It hurt but was okay but since I already have health issues with it later that day after work it really started hurting. So next day I called in sick cause I wasn't able to lift heavy stuff (I work as a carpenter)…