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I quit my oppressive meatgrinder IT job today

I was lured into this company 3 years ago because they have a contract with Microsoft to do their technical support and I was promised hundreds of opportunities if I hopped in on the ground floor. Incentives based on metrics were met by me every single month, and somehow they never paid me for them before our first set of managers left and the second set claimed there were no notes and no way of tracking who was owed anything. I was the recipient of an award luncheon they announced via email with the two managers of the program (fucking gross, glad this one never happened) for highest performance, and that just never got mentioned again. Eventually they moved me from tier III to tier IV technician but guess what? No money for raises they say, so it's a lateral move and the “raise” is the advanced experience and not…

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Arizona Goodwill Employee here! Donate elsewhere.

Saw a post recently in this sub about how very little of the money donated to Goodwill actually sees any use in the career services they claim to provide. While these services are provided, it is worth noting that the majority of the funding originates from government contracts and spending. Only roughly 1/8th of the donated proceeds actually go to the career services, while the remaining 7/8ths line the pockets of the wealthy. On the subject of donations, you should also donate clothes and other miscellaneous/electronic items to smaller, local thrifts instead. Very little of what we get is sold, and I myself have been personally tasked multiple times with pulling items off the shelves to be shipped off to be sold by the pound, or sent to the landfill (you know, that place Goodwill lauds themselves for never sending things). The pay is also shit, and the turnover at…

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Being asked to take part in an assessment like this for a minimum wage call centre job. WTF? What happened to a CV and cover letter?

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Jon Donaire bakery strike is over: Workers vote yes on a contract

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Left interview early.

Fixed it for you. This happened many years before the anti work movement I guess. I was interviewing with a company. They told me it would be an all day thing (8 hours, not uncommon in my industry). It was set up so I was in a conference room, and small groups would come in and interview me, one after the other (usually 2 – 4 people at a time). My interview started at 8:30 am. The first 2 – 3 groups went fine. Everyone was friendly, enthusiastic and getting me pumped to join this company. But then right before noon, the group I was interviewing with, while also mostly fine, had one individual who was a director, so someone I'd be working closely with. His behaviour was rigid, yet professional. During the interview with this group, he would ask me questions which I immediately recognized. They come straight out…

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Was told to post this here. This comes right after an employees family member was hospitalized. For context most of us are in the general age range of 17-20.

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The sad truth

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Laughable

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Even thousands of years ago people were able to excuse their absence from work reasonably easily, but it seems like we are somehow regressing to pre-history.

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When Possible, Humans Do Things To Benefit Themselves