Antiwork

I've never understood this. It's illegal for a company to stop their employees from forming a union. But for some reason it's completely legal for huge companies like Amazon and Starbucks to hire another company specifically to stop people from unionizing at their location? How is this not the something? /E Specifically in the USA.

I know this seems stupid, but it’s bothering me. I am currently in a shared office that has two desks. It’s essentially a rectangle with a partition dividing us. So on two sides of the rectangle is all glass. I sit in the back directly next to the the long glass “window” that looks into the hallway and directly into the department head and the guy underneath him.I can legit turn my body slightly and we stare into each other’s souls, it’s very awkward. They installed blinds, all was cool. Closed them nobody has to feel weird. I just had a review done by my boss, in which she stated I had to keep 2 out of 3 open so she can see me. Even though she would have to walk over and physically look. All the while she just comes in and tries to sneak up on me, I…

My company was bought out by a competitor in December and part of that agreement was that all of the 200+ employees keep their jobs. They told us to continue business as usual and not to worry about anything, heavily emphasizing that they wanted the transition to be as smooth as possible. What they didn't mention is that many of the offshore India team were immediately fired and the remaining had a day of work taken away from them, so they only work 4 days a week now instead of 5. Three months go by as we're all working our asses off to compensate for what has been essentially double the workload because of the India team being sized down. We've all been doing double the work without a raise under the assumption that this is just the transition period and things will go back to normal soon. Then today…

My friend had a job interview. The indeed listing said starting $40k a year. At the interview they said starting is $14/hr. Wtf

Five years industry experience here, in a variety of different roles. I recently found a job offer with a much stronger customer interaction focus than is usual for my field, so I took the job over a slightly better paying position because I figured broadening my range was worth it. After a month of learning the bare basics of my role and our product, my boss said it was time to “throw me to the wolves” and put me straight into the customer's line of sight for a whole slew of products they hadn't trained me on, and with zero training on customer interaction. But in retrospect, this almost feels like the new normal. At most of my other positions I've been expected to just figure out everything myself just by reading a pamphlet and gotten eye rolls when that wasn't enough to immediately understand how to operate complex machinery.…