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Warning: Bank of America will not automatically send you a check for unused vacation & sick time when you quit

After speaking to a number of current and former Bank of America employees I’ve pieced together the following: Employees who quit over a year ago were automatically paid for their unused vacation time. Employees who left within the last 6+ months were not paid for unused vacation or sick time. BofA’s HR department says they do not withhold your unused vacation and sick pay, but you must file specific requests to get paid for those unused hours. They appear to have taken the stance that if you don’t specifically request YOUR MONEY you must not want it so it’s ok for them to just keep it. What’s worse is a lot of the current managers do not know this! They don’t know so they don’t communicate this requirement to employees who are leaving. No doubt the bank is keeping thousands upon thousands of dollars that their former employees are entitled…

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Apple boss Tim Cook faces backlash to £73m pay package

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How about creating a national “talk to coworkers about wages” week?

As the title says we should create that to shine light on the gaps in pay and reveal the crappy things businesses do.

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There’s a culture of toxic confidence in the hiring process

I'm from Hungary, so it may not apply to all countries. I'm 31, I have learned software development. Yet, I barely worked in the field. In my country there's also a supposed lack of workforce in that field. How could this all be possible? Even weirder that the IT coop did take me in almost immediately. Currently it's more of a time sink with occasional money, but it's pretty much the only way I can get a decent income and get out of Hungary's own poorhouse program of communal work (which means I do minimum wage job below minimum wage, because “it's so easy”). Then I remembered that when I got to a job interview I failed when I needed to speak. I'm on an infamously bad medicine (Convulex, sold under the name Depakene in the US), and it causes me to stutter and have to think for words from…

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Oddly concerned and need some advice

So, I have been working at a company for almost 4 months. They offered me well above my requested starting salary. Now, after several raises I'm making nearly twice what I wanted as a starting salary. I looked online at national averages and I'm making higher than those, not by an excessive amount, but by about 10%. I'm mostly happy about my work. Yes there are a few things that annoy me,but that's true for anything. Nothing is perfect, and the things I don't like aren't nearly as big as the things I love. They keep giving me different small bonuses as well, such as gift cards to restaurants and AMEX gift cards. They really give great work/life balance as well. Like, I'm really happy at my job. Is something wrong here? Every job I've ever worked at before this has been a total dumpster fire of a company. I…

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Capitalism has found a way to monetize eating the rich

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Gosh, what would retain nurses? Guess we will never know.

South Dakota is projected to have the seventh-highest nurse shortage in the U.S. by 2030. Nurses say better wages, education and Medicaid expansion can help solve the problem. https://t.co/LY8R3UbMZf pic.twitter.com/qz66ToTauh— ArgusLeader911 (@Argus911) February 17, 2022

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My supervisor has repeatedly told me that me dying is t his problem and that work should come first always. Does anyone else see a problem here?

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Reactionaries are not a part of working class movements.

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I had to leave the office to help my sibling with a domestic violence issue. My coworker complained I was being selfish and difficult

Don’t want to get into details about DV for privacy reasons, but the situation involves assault and battery. Luckily my boss said I could take time off. However, one of my coworkers LEGIT FUCKING SAID I WAS BEING A BAD TEAMMATE. I have not taken ANY time off since the holidays. I’m an engineer that works an office job, not a doctor doing life saving surgery. This person told me it didn’t seem like I cared about the project or the company, and just thought about myself. It just blows my mind how awful he’s being. I complained to all my coworkers and they’re shocked. Just wanted to share this here – this is life under capitalism – productivity is put above everything