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Promote me but won’t bump up my hourly wage? Sure thing, I’ll just use your rules to give myself a 50% pay bump.

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 5, 2022
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Crossposted from r/MaliciousCompliance This happened in a company I worked at over a decade ago. I was a technician working on large machines, we had numerous clients and were assigned to a given site. The site I worked on was across a border so I couldn't live near it, and had an hour commute each way every day. I got no expenses or mileage for this because it was my assigned site. After working for this company for a while I got promoted to stop doing routine maintenance and work on more complex projects. Most of these projects were on a site near where I lived so that suited me just fine. However, the company told me they didn't have any budget to increase my wage, which is where the malicious compliance came in: I combed through their rules and regs as well as my contract, and found that if…

Found this on a Facebook jobs page

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 5, 2022
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Shout out to the Peeps at Walmart

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 5, 2022
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To everyone out there paying rent and mortgages, and to those who generate enough value to be independent but have it usurped by the boss

Southern conservatives argued that unions could bring “black domination in the South.”

Post author By Olivia
Post date March 5, 2022
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Friendly reminder that capitalists had ‘2 penny sleeping wires’ until the working class fought back. They will act like this again if allowed.

A billionaire socialist

I’ve spent the past two years writing code to collect data on stock trading by corporate executives and built a dashboard making the data freely available, in order to track for insider trading. Here’s a link to the desktop version of the site. The more eyes on the data the better!

What did your Employer get you for “Employee Appreciation Day” that wasn’t cash? I’ll start; a flashlight to help find quarters in the couch cushions cuz we ain’t ever gettin a raise. I feel appreciated.