So after a wrongful termination- I just dropped my last dollar on a lawyer to do what is right. $5000 deposit ( retainer fee) and $400 an hour to fight for my rights in the workplace. Its just ridiculous highway robbery. Employers mis-treat employees because they CAN. They know the grossly under paid employees are unlikely to afford the costly process necessary to fight back. Meanwhile they have endless funds to slam the employees into the ground. edit- context in comments*
How are people dealing with housing while sacrificing income for fair and just worker rights? I left my industry in 2019 and started my own e-commerce business and I do ok, better than I ever did working for anyone else, but I’m still low income especially as the sole provider for 2 kids. I cannot find affordable, suitable housing & my time where I’m currently living is running out. It is only getting worse and I can only dedicate so much of my time hopelessly searching for housing. I am also worried they’ll put more restrictions or restraints on small e-commerce businesses because it’s in corporate interest to run us out and they’ll act like they are protecting small business but they’ll really be just taking bigger percentages from us any way they can. Ugh, I’m just feeling the gloom & doom.
I worked for a huge international company in their call centre for a while. I have now left that role for numerous reasons but this post will explain one of those reasons. So things got crazy busy in our department in autumn last year. We're talking 50+ customers waiting to have their calls answered with wait times of an hour or more. Before this we'd only get maybe 15-20 waiting at the most and that would be classed as a busy day. You could go 3-4 minutes waiting for a call to come through quite often. But that all changed. Now we were busy all of the time with barely a chance to take a breath between calls. Understandably, after dealing with this day in and day out for weeks on end many of us were getting burned out and worn down by angry customers complaining about long wait times…
I've posted about this before but it just keeps getting more infuriating. I'm forced to come to the office 4 days a week with one day to work remotely. Whenever I want to stay home, I have to ask my boss for permission. Meanwhile, he barely shows up three times a week and when he doesn't he doesn't even let me know until I'm there. What's the point of me being there if you're not??? I can do everything at home I SWEAR. It's so fucking annoying.
Hey antiwork folks. Longtime lurker here. I'll start off with a story. Keep in mind that I am not great at taking my thoughts and writing them out. In May 2020 I graduated with my BA in Computer Science. After my graduation, I started applying to remote computer science positions only. The start of Covid plus being a college graduate made it feel impossible to be recognized when applying to jobs. I probably applied to over 500 jobs before I had enough. I would work from 8 to 5, drive an hour to get home, and apply to jobs for another couple of hours. This royally sucked and was very disappointing after applying to so many jobs with little to no interactions. I had a very good-looking resume and decent prior experience. After this, I started to develop my own Indeed job application bot. This was a game-changer. Once…
My last day is tomorrow (Friday). After giving my notice, they posted this position with a salary range lower than I was making. A colleague told me my replacement is starting Monday. Should I leave a letter for them in the desk stating if they're making less than (what I made), they're being underpaid relative to their peers? Asking for a friend. 🤣
What's your story if you did? Because I'm one of them: Got my BA at 24, MA at 27, but it took 5 1/2 years (of unemployment) to find a job that suited my level of education, so I was almost 33 when I got started, not exactly common ! (…ok, granted, I was extremely lucky because a family member of mine was a business owner, so he made me references and a work certificate signed by his hand from his own business to cover this long ass gap which would have been VERY hard to explain, in order to make me desirable or I doubt I would have gotten employed lol, but still it worked wonders and I'm doing good now…and I also learned to feel less guilt from embellishing the truth due to how tough it is out there). nb: not living in the USA though
