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Harassment from foreman

I work in a construction type job and I have been with said company for about 9 years. IAlmost a year ago I worked at a job where my foreman–since day one–decided to exclusively treat me like garbage. I talked to my lead hand, who witnessed the abuse about it. He had enough and went to the office and explained that everyone's being treated terribly on this job by this foreman, but more so myself specifically. For the record, I am a hard worker and do my best to make everyone happy. He got in trouble for the way he was treating me and that was the end of the tale…. or so I thought. Today, at roughly 4:40pm, said punished foreman calls me about all the complaints he received and how people are lying and stabbing him in the back. He circles around and says that I'm the worst…

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The Executive Assistant position that’s worse than all the others

This particular CEO hasn't been able to keep an executive assistant for more than 15 months, most don't last a year. I see they're trying to rebrand it as something awesome because it's clearly not the CEO's fault. It's everybody else not being up to the task https://preview.redd.it/ufpote3ss9l81.png?width=759&format=png&auto=webp&s=23c1d751c75d861bf0dde902b1084920ca4eafac

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Capital in the 21 Century

I believe below movie summarized this sub. All have been analyzed and articulated. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5723056/

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Should we list actual names on Glassdoor reviews?

Decanting this with a friend, I remembered this topic comes up a lot. Do we have a census regarding companies and our work experiences? What about job seeking and walking into a toxic encounter. Just wondering about everyone's thoughts. Personally, I can't help think, if this was done more and more frequently,. We would get more positive change. Thoughts?

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Thanks for the consideration anyways

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“Culture fit”

Has anyone else been the victim of a “culture fit” termination? I was just fired today for “not fitting in” and I'm not sure what to do. I unfortunately live in an at-will state.

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honest question.. how many of you have money invested in the stock market?

i just want to get a feel of how poor some of you actually are. i have NO money invested in the market. i have NO savings.

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Area manager getting the recognition for the work that I put in.

Last year a pipe burst at my work site, as the only person qualified for operating the floor scrubbing machine, I had to spend 5 hours driving it around to suck up as much water as possible. I also had to teach the rest of the staff how to properly use the cleaning equipment eg what side the squeegy needs to be facing for optimum squeegying. The store I worked at opened 3 hours after it was supposed to due to the flooding. My area manager arrived an hour before the store opened, took some photos of the damage and noted how much work needed, instead of grabbing a mop or squeegy and just helping us. Jump to earlier this week and I find out from a former employee that I'm mates with that the area manager got all the praise and was rewarded gift cards for “being in the…

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After reading all the posts here, I’ve come to the conclusion that small businesses are even worse than big corporations

NOTE: This post is aimed at American small businesses. Read accordingly. Small businesses are not bad when they’re oh, say, your aunt’s Etsy store that sells custom mail boxes. Or a dog walking business you and your friend run. But a small shop or employer? No way, too much of a risk the employer will be an absolute nightmare. Half the stories here lately are about how small business owners weaponize their small status to guilt employees into accepting low wages and poor to no benefits. I have too much experience with this myself to pretend like small businesses are an automatic good for the country or for labor anymore. Small businesses depress wages by offering less than larger employers, which makes larger employers match their wages downward, which lowers the bar for everyone. Small businesses don’t offer benefits and leech off of public programs by encouraging poverty to flourish…

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Apparently my situation isn’t desperate enough to get the job!

I thought I nailed my interview yesterday, but my friend (who works at the company) told me they're going with someone else. Apparently the hiring manager didn't like that I've been doing freelance work to support myself after losing my salaried position at the start of the pandemic. To him, that meant I “had an established customer base and a secondary income stream”; hiring me meant there was a risk that I could simply leave this job “when the going got tough” and “go back to freelancing full time”. He wanted “someone who is hungrier”. For the record, I am hungry as fuck. My “established freelance business” hasn't covered my monthly bills even once. I have depleted my entire savings account and racked up $8000 in credit card debt just sheltering/feeding myself. I fucking needed this job, man.