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Being A Slave to the Machine is Good?

Business Insider: Musk says Americans 'avoid going to work,' unlike Chinese workers. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-americans-avoid-going-to-work-unlike-chinese-workers-2022-5

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Had digital interview, emailed me to say job was cancelled then job was reposted two days later.

I reapplied for the reposted position and haven't heard anything from them regarding another interview. My question is why would they select me for a digital interview and then repost the same position after the position was cancelled and not have me start where we left off? Really wanted the job.

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I am DONE with being “useful”.

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looking Work From Home tips to keep my screen active while I do other things?

As above, working from home with a company provided Surface Pro, can't change any settings on it, but would like to make it and teams look like I'm active while I potter about the house. Still need to be able to hear incoming calls etc.

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Stop paying for something but still want it done?

I work in a manufacturing plant as a group leader and have more experience in my department than almost everyone. Used to take phone calls at home when issues came up and noone could fix them and I would automatically get 4 hrs pay whether I could tell them what to do in 5 mins or 1.5 hrs. Just over 100 bucks a phonecall, middle of the night could suck a little but I didn't mind the money so it was all good. Could almost double my pay on some bad weeks. Get a new head manager who decides he doesn't wanna pay for phonecalls so I said that's fine never call me at home again. He seemed a little shocked that wouldn't continue taking calls for free but I stuck to it and would never answer a call from work. After a while and many huge downtimes that could've…

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“You can get a second job, but like at a coffee shop” -word for word from my boss

I am so done with this job. Here's some context this is gonna be a bit long, because I have a lot on my mind and I have no one else to talk to about this right now. I am gonna try and keep this vague as possible since atm I need this job. Took this job as a place holder for another position. Basically they needed me to fill this role, while we waited for the person in the role I want, to leave the position. So I could replace them. I told them I would put my freelance work aside and focus on filling this role and learning the ins and outs of the company, as long as further down the road I can pick it up again. Once I have a feel of how things run. That was a lie. The role I got is labor intensive,…

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This company is more like a Spoiled brat, saying “If you can’t work for me.. you can’t work anywhere for next 26 weeks”.. WTF !!!!

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With the things going on in Chicago, i ain’t surprised either.

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Fuck Cover Letters

I’m writing this at 1 am with a splitting headache. I’m just getting into the workforce and all I can think of is how much I hate cover letters. The amount of dickriding they want me to do is insane. Why do I have to make some shit up about why I’m the best person in the world, proofread it, rewrite it, tweak it, double check against the listing to see if I’ve used the magic key words, tweak it again, lie, h—bitch are you hiring or are you not? You can see whether I’m qualified from the resume, stop asking me to kiss ass when we both know I’m only here for the money. And another thing FUCK putting in your resume to then manually input the same information on your resume! Why the FUCK did you ask me then, huh?! GOD. I’m not looking forward to another few…

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It’s $7 a gallon in some places in the US..