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Bank of England governor is trying to stop wage rises to match with inflation, so instead workers have to have stagnating wages and increasing costs of living

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Got told in my performance review I need to ‘engage in more idle conversation’

As the title suggests, my boss at work suggested that I am too much of a reclusive type, and I keep to myself too much which can make people feel isolated from me. As such, one of my 'target improvements' is that I have been asked to engage in more idle chatter with people about things I don't care about and aren't work related to satisfy my colleague's need for social interaction. For reference, my team is about 14 people large, I am the youngest at 28, the next youngest being 35. I work in a social service position at a local council. I have known my colleagues for 2+ years and they all know that although I'm a grouch, I'm always happy to help and try my best to do what I can for them. I do engage with my colleagues in social discussions I'm interested in, but I…

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This You have inherent value and rights just by existing.

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Life is meaningless – but in a good way

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Do what you love

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Looks like minimum wage workers don’t need heating

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I made my boss over $1.5 million in commission over two years, while I made $45k/year. For Christmas he got me a $25 gift card to a movie theater chain that I would have to drive to another state to even use. When I put in my two week notice, he called legal on me while I sat in his office.

I worked my ass off for this man, essentially running his entire book of business for him. For Christmas he got me a $25 AMC gift card. The closest AMC theater is 1.5hrs away in another state. That pissed me off and made me start looking for other jobs. I genuinely cared about my job and the account, so I waited to accept a job offer until I had trained someone else to do my job. When the time came, I met him in his office and told him that I had accepted another job and that I was putting in my notice, but to not worry because I have someone already trained. When I told him that I had accepted a position with another company in our field but would not be doing the same thing so it wouldn’t violate my non-compete, he called our chief legal office on…

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People hate to see a guy choose not to work no matter what.

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Things to know about Work, capitalism and power

Power: Rules for rulers – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs (Eye opener for me) 48 laws of power – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1303.The_48_Laws_of_Power The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11612989-the-dictator-s-handbook ​ Work : Gervais principle – https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/ (Eye opener for me) ​ Capitalism : Books of Chris hedges, Noam chomsky,Michael Parenti, Karl Marx, Lenin Hakim – https://www.youtube.com/c/ComradeLenin/videos Second Thought – https://www.youtube.com/c/SecondThought Ralph Nader – https://www.youtube.com/c/RalphNaderRadioHour/videos ​ Climate change – Peter Kalmus – https://peterkalmus.net/books/read-by-chapter-being-the-change/ , twitter – https://twitter.com/ClimateHuman ​ Please share the resources you learn from

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Is Glassdoor useless now?

At least when it comes to bigger companies. I noticed a lot of big corporations that had mediocre ratings suddenly went up massively. Either they removed all the negative ratings or spammed it with fake positive reviews that don't actually say anything about the company itself and can reused anywhere