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My company wants annual credit checks on all employees…

Title. It was bad enough that they wanted a credit check as part of a background check during the hiring process, but now it's been announced that these background checks will be annual for all employees, specifically criminal record and credit report checks. In their lukewarm defence this requirement came from their lender clients, many of which are major banks, but why the fuck do the banks care about the credit score of the engineers making the software? Are they so scared of the working class that they don't want “filthy poor people” touching the code??

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Tim capsule to the year 3000

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Inspirational

Hello everyone! I’ve been a part of this sub for about a month now and I’m learning more than I ever thought I’d need to know about my rights as a worker! I originally felt super weird about being here as I am active duty military and couldn’t really sympathize with the plight of the average civilian worker. I working towards release from the service and this sub is helping me realize that I have a worth both inside and outside the military. Believe it or not service members go through some similar shit just with more red tape and less escape/negotiation options. I describe it to my family as “take your orders and deal with them” no matter how unfair, unrealistic, or outright outrageous those orders are. I could tell stories all day about how messed up things are from this side of the fence. Thank you all for…

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My husband rejected a job offer because he’s taking care of me (I have Stage IV-B NS-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma) and they did not provide him with knowledge of what the base salary would be. These people are so desperate. “At-will” employment, but being harassed when you reject.

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This ain’t it chief

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Received this from the SSA. I’m receiving a subliminal message that they do not want me to retire “-for the rest of your life.”

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I drive for dominos. Had this conversation with my manager. What do you guys think of this?

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Fraud? Who’s that?

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Update!! New job!!

I posted earlier about my job at the greenhouse and my boss not understanding my mental health issues. I approached a different greenhouse for work experience and was just offered to come in for a interview for a job!!!! This one should be less customer service and more working with plants which should help my mental health a lot and won’t interfere with my own garden!!!

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How inhabitants of underdeveloped countries (like me) with very high unemployment rates, do we get any dignity at work, since there are people everywhere accepting anything for any money?

Currently I work in a neighborhood supermarket as a administrative assistant. However for some time now I started to replace another role in which the employee was fired, and things was going fine, but the but the owner of the place (an elderly man who clearly no longer understands his own business) started pushing me to work that is not my job, constantly demanding and even making public complaints to other employees and even customers (all this for a minimum wage, which here in Brazil means nothing). I would like to change jobs, but in this country we have a high unemployment rate and many people accept to work for minimum conditions and even below, and I depend on money to help my family. I would like to raise the discussion of how people from underdeveloped countries and with high unemployment can fight for more dignified working conditions and a…