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How To Take Action

Anytime you're job hunting and see a job that's 1099 or an Independent Contractor job like in sales but you see it has requirements that would be classified as an employee please report that. There's so many employers getting away with this to profit at the employees expense. My experience is in sales and marketing and commission only jobs don't make sense. They're only paying me when I'm successful rather than paying me for my actual work. I should be paid to work and incentivized for success. Take action every chance you get, I know with not working I'm bored and I wanna be productive so instead of just complaining to this circle jerk, complain to people who can do something about this maybe. At least gives me something to do so I maybe can accomplish a little bit of good in this wicked world.

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how to send all outlook emails to yourself?

I am getting ready to see a lawyer for some issues. In order to keep my evidence, I need to dump all my emails from outlook into a USB or something similar. Is there a way or some sort of app to do this? No emails have confidentiality attached to them.

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Tinfoil Hat Time

So what do y'all think the likelihood is that a bunch of corporate real estate owners got together with their biggest lesees and said, “Hey buddy, if you institute a return to work policy we'll give you x% off your lease for the next couple of years.” I couldn't figure out why so many companies would be willing to throw away hundreds or thousands of manhours into commutes for largely computer-driven jobs, but it would make total sense if their now very underutilized corporate lease burdens could be lessened by forcing people back into the office. And the leaseowners sure would like people to get back into the office, since they're likely also residential property owners interested in keeping rents and property values high, which the elimination or decimation of downtown offices and subsequent possible conversion into residential property would undoubtably do.

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Our computers are down at my government job.

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I hate privatized substitute teaching, they can’t even be asked to not send me the same robo email twice threatening me

So, I work as a substitute teacher in a county which has decided to hire a firm to handle their substitute teachers. This means I don’t even get the meager protections of a teachers union that I would if I worked for the county directly, I don’t get many benefits or bonuses, and I make barely above minimum wage. Thus, I work two jobs to try and make ends meet. This company is insufferable, however. For one, there’s little to no training. I had a day of training before I was hired on last year and I don’t receive any kind of instruction on how the company expects me to operate. What happens if a fight breaks out? How do I report suspected abuse? How do I handle mentally handicapped children? Fuck if I know! They just said “write a referral if a kid is acting up, then, tell them…

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We’re Broke: Nearly 40% of Texas Workers Make Less Than $15 an Hour, New Research Shows

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Severance Pay – How Employers Try to Stiff Employees

I am a Hawaiian who works in Taiwan for reference. Any contractual job here is legally binding, so should company A decide to let go party B for any reason makes party B a recipient of severance pay. Most foreigners, here, do not know that they could be compensated for the remainder of the contract. It does not matter the reason of termination because every VISA revoked is an automatic compensation. Also, most foreigners, do not even know that the process of going to labor affairs being very simple in getting compensated. Many companies will try to just pay the final pay for the month. They even try to charge people for early termination because it cost the company lots of money. Employees get screwed because the contract stated that early terminations must be compensated, but it is illegal. Why do companies want to treat us like crap, and then…

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Does this make any sense?

Good Morning Everyone, I've been following antiwork for the last year and I swear my job on the daily belongs here. After some things today I really needed a place to vent about this place and I

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Communication must be in the same medium….

Remembering that time when my manager called me on my day off and left me a voicemail that I need to urgently call him back. I emailed him telling him I wasn’t available and would discuss on my next day back at work because he was shady AF and I wanted all communication from him to be done in writing. Well…he took me to HR because I needed to learn that being professional means responding in the same medium that he tried to communicate with me. I left that toxic job and now I have a total unicorn job. They are out there!

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Here is a fun rundown of the work situation I am dealing with right now

My pay is stagnant. How/should I ask for a raise? I tried posting this in r/jobs and in r/personal finance and it got taken down in both subs. Someone mentioned I should try posting it here, so here we go: I am a customer service manager at a car dealership. My duties are varied and plentiful. I have a team working under me. I also have not received a raise in 4 years. I am salaried at $49,500, and grossed about 56k in 2021 when vacation pay and bonuses were added in. Over the past few years, I have also been handed an entire second department to manage for no compensation, and I single-handedly plan and arrange all work social activities and events. This is in addition to my ‘regular’ job and duties. For said work activities, I am expected to front the expenses myself and then get reimbursed up…