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Am I abused, can I do anything?

Currently work as a maintenance supervisor at a resort in western -NY and it’s a salary position. Pretty good pay for my area and decent benefits. Here’s where my issue comes into play I’m expected to work 40 hours during spring, summer season which is understandable I am salary, but I’m also on call 24/7 and always have to answer. During winter I’m expected to work 60+ hours and still on call and during winter I get called back into work nearly everyday or every other day. I’m working ridiculous hours get no overtime, don’t get compensated for mileage, and am only allowed to hire one part time person for winter and not allowed to go over 25 hours. The rest of the year I’m a supervisor to myself alone. Another issue I have is pervious people in this position said for years they had a three man year round…

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An Applebee’s and Taco Bell franchise executive wrote in a leaked email that high gas prices would bring in new workers who won’t demand high wages

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My Boss manipulated the company into firing me.

Lied about my work ethic to upper management. Well with the extra time off(1month) I designed, developed, and marketed a market ready product that companies are begging to buy the rights to sell. I would have never accomplished any of it had I not been fired so to him Id like to say thanks and Fuck you buddy!!!

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Earned Vacation

So I'm planning to leave my job within the next couple months and we're short staffed so I will not be able to use PTO I've aquired because it won't be approved. They changed their policy to 1 week PTO after 6 months and I'll be leaving around the 8 month mark. I want to leave on good terms so how do I go about making sure I'll be paid what I've earned in PTO since I won't be able to use it before quitting. Thank you.

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The overlooked workers who could solve the labor crisis

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This sub is affecting me

I’m about a year out of college with a degree in communication. I’ve been unable to secure a job in that time, and I’ve only gotten a couple of interviews. My parents are telling me I need to get a job by next month. What I’m saying is that I have a lot of work-related stress and anxiety, and browsing this sub consistently makes it worse. I came here looking for comfort and maybe some solutions, and I found a deluge of hopelessness. Now in addition to worrying about freezing and starving to death, my worries about being abused and exploited have been multiplied. And I understand that I come from a position of immense privilege to simply be worried about those things while living off my parents’ money instead of experiencing them. But I legitimately feel like this sub has become a source of mental self-harm for me.

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It’s funny how helping your boss out so much can actually end up breaking apart your relationship

I found out my boss was going to get fired. I'm his student, so it affected me a lot knowing he was going to lose his job. I'm 22 YO female and my boss is 30 YO male. I ended up telling my boss he was going to get fired about two days before he was going to get fired. He then made me stay up all night writing a defence for him. And he also stayed up all night thinking about what legal action he could take. We both went to work tired. Then the next day he called me and said he was so thankful because he can actually defend himself now. And then later I got a call from HR about how he was going to be dismissed. And I documented the phone call and then sent it to my boss because he said he was the…

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Old school Work Ethic

I've seen a few posts condemn or praise the work ethic of boomers, either because it works against the solidarity of production or is admirable because it seems unwavering. I think both takes are accurate and don't just depend on a generational view, but as a larger perspective of how humans spend their time. Imagine 100 years ago, there was little form of entertainment except the radio and theater if you had money. The best way to spend your time was to sleep or be productive. Move forward a few decades and this ratio becomes more balanced. You have more options for leisure which became the goal from productivity other than survival. Now we are a century later with the means to work very little and produce so much more compared to our ancestors 100 years ago. This would be crystal clear to everyone if it wasn't for the disease…

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The class divide on antiwork

Are people with shit jobs judged more harshly on antiwork when they complain than are people with well-paying jobs? Edit: Does the class divide here signify that the worker solidarity cause is doomed for at least another generation?

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I feel I’m getting lied to about my contract

I've been on my current independent contractor assignment for a little less than a year. I have about six months left with this location. It has been a pretty interesting assignment and I'm enjoying the work. The recruiting agency has been okay, a few pay errors and tech hiccups aside. I got a notification that I need to sign a new contract to update it to reflect the new name change of the agency. Think going from “Smith and Associates” to “The Smith Agency PC”. I messaged my recruiter to ask what it is about and he verified that it was only “the lawyers said we need to update everyone's contract for the new name.” Well, the number of pages in the contract has ballooned and I was raised right so I rolled up my sleeves and got to reading it. TOTALLY NOT ONLY A NAME CHANGE. The section on…