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I don't want my question to come off as insensitive, especially knowing that sometimes, if you need a job, you take what you can get, or what's available. I've been there. But with the years of ongoing drama and malpractices, union formations and busts, worsening working conditions, etc. why do you still keep that slum business afloat? What's preventing you from finding something new (other than lack of time to find a new job because this one is so demanding). What are your reasons/motivations? Do some of you genuinely enjoy working at Amazon (because of your specific role?) I see you guys, I wish you guys the best and hope things improve! All love.

So, my coworker was fired because he had allowed for us to take home spoilage items from the bins (Spoilage refers to soon to be expired, expired or torn packaging.). Now they are discussing on how much he has to pay back because he has taken home items himself and admitted to allowing other coworkers to take from the bins when scanned out. How can you make someone pay for the stuff that's already bad and was going to be thrown away in the first place?

So I've been with a company around 3 years and a few new people have joined recently in the same job title and role as me. These new employees basically have no knowledge of how anything works and it could take 6 months or a year before they become competent. I've heard that they are making 10k more than me even though I'm training and mentoring them while also trying to get my own work done. I'm really not happy about it and my morale is way down so I'm looking for a bit of advice on how I should handle this with my manager. Does anyone know if this is normal in a competitive job market such as the one I am in. What do people think? Should I make a fuss with my manager next time I'm talking to them or just wait until the next compensation review…

I left my job almost a month ago because the owner was a total pshyo, and the manager also was nuts. I was thinking of just walking away multiple times because I couldn't handle the manager – he was shitting on me all the time, at the end we had a lot of work and a lot of overtime, I just worked very fast and then he didn't seem to shit on me but I knew I wouldn't be able to work like that all the time. Of course it was my fault showing how fast I can work but I don't care about it anymore. Anyways the manager was nothing compared to the owner. He's literally a pshyopath, I get sick whenever I think about him now. I worked at die-cutting machine and one time about 2 months in when I just started to understand how to work he…

Unions used to have vibrant, militant leftist factions that brought the vigor, courage, and zeal to fight like hell for the best working conditions and wages; it were these radical militants utilizing direct action that helped secure the economic prosperity of the post-WW2 Boomer era. However, the red scare and anti-communist witch hunts of the 50's drove out most members of these factions from unions, which resulted in many unions, run by moderates, to become weak and complacent, prone to fighting with each other over jurisdictions and neglecting the workers who voted for them. We saw this in the John Deere strike, we see this in the unionized grocery stores with the shit pay and constant struggling of grocery workers throughout the US, we see it in the decline of unions in general and the cowardice/resistance one usually faces in the labor movement when they suggest labor actions that aren't…

Just adding this here, because I think I’ll find some people have a similar story. I used to work at a “production facility” which packaged and shipped COVID test kits. I won’t name the company due to sub rules, but just know it’s one of the big ones. I was supposed to start my shift at 3pm today. 3pm-11:30pm. I got a call from the shift manager saying that they were shutting down the production facility and laying everyone off at 1:45pm. This was today(Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022). Luckily for me I was able to find another job, but that isn’t that goddamn point. They let us go AN HOUR before our shift was supposed to start. I was already driving to work when I got the call. Per the rules of my “employment contract”, I was supposed to give them a full week’s notice before I quit. They gave…

My boss (m) has been verbally abusing a coworker (m) consistently in the time I’ve worked for company 2.5 yrs. It has been escalating to an extreme lately. Yesterday he hit the coworker. Who should I call? This is in California. The coworker has come to work with injuries on the face in the past but I cannot confirm this was also from the boss although I suspect it might be.