So I (43m) get to work today in a warehouse, and the entire team is informed that the restrooms are now locked, and we have to ask for permission to use them because some younger folks wrote on the walls. The company is Expeditors. This is bullshit.
Basically title. The CEO of my company refused to hire someone because they were trans. Another high HR guy bad mouthed young LBGTQ+ people, despite being in a domestic partnership with a man… And other shady not nice stuff like dismantling a female in technology empowerment group because they didn’t want it to be a company bashing sesh. We have very high profile clients, so PR could be useful in exposing these creeps but I’m not sure. My question, how do I take down the nasty people at the top and not ruin the lives and jobs of the people I really like that I work with directly.
Stock holders demanding record profits every quarter are root cause to the economic meltdown. Step 1 was to pay less and less. Now we have hit bottom on that. Step 2 is raise prices, every quarter, until no one can afford anything anymore. Then everything grinds to a halt and you better hope you are on the right side of it. Stock holders need to demand stability for industry and worker if stock holder want their stacks of money to actually buy goods and services, instead of just be kindling for the cave campfire after the global collapse.
I am (was) an appliance installation guy, I got in with this company from a dude I played football with in high school. He’s the lead install man there. I had construction experience for the past 3 years so he wanted me for my tool experience yada yada yada. He thought I would be a good fit for the job. So I took it, and he started me off high in terms of pay hoping I would stay. This is beginning of January this year. My first week, I get bit by a customers dog while I’m carrying their refrigerator on the dolly. I’m on a blood thinner, so I go to the urgent care to get taken care of. From this point on, I ask if we can tell customers to please put their dogs away while we’re working in their home. I bring this up to our boss…
I've mentioned it a few times in comments but I've had an issue where my landlord sent my late rent (Which was late because I wanted them to remove an improper late fee) to their collections lawyer and refused to accept any money from me. Long story short, this guy has a rep for giving you the runaround so he can charge you extra court fees, which is what he ended up doing. Now I'm being evicted. I want to fight it but the only lawyers I seem to find prefer to side with landlords as a rule of thumb. I love this country because you can still become homeless while 3 months rent ($5100) sits in your bank account because they refuse to accept it 🙂
This is the movie that radicalized me and my relationship with work. I hope some of you have seen it. I hope some of you will discover it for the first time.
