Just a little rant
My manager does not believe and gets mad when someone is sick because she never gets sick. Her words: “I don’t get it when people are sick, I am never sick. I protect myself very well they should do to” I am sorry miss v, but while you go to work by Uber everyday (the company pays) I have to wait for the bus on the cold in winter. While your husband go buy the groceries I have to go myself and wait for the bus on the cold again. While you can work from home sometimes, I can’t never do that. You are mad at me because I am sick at the same day as another person, go f yourself. Sick of you, and sick of everyone that sides with you because they are scared. Sick of being micromanaged and not appreciated. Sick of you calling me after work…
There are no pure socialist or capitalist systems now or ever in history. People waste too much time arguing and alienating potential allies by gatekeeping “the movement.” Everything is a spectrum. Work for the changes that can be achieved. Socialized Healthcare, UBI, higher taxes for the rich, these things can happen.
Authoritarian Capitalism
Job 1- Shelf stacker- If you are ill, tell them you aren’t coming in the morning of your shift. I worked the Saturday of my job and felt awful and thought the decent thing to do would be to tell my manager that I wasn’t going to come in tomorrow as I felt terrible. This would then give him time to get someone to cover my shift. He moaned at me, saying that I was here today that surely I could do tomorrow as well. I called in sick the next morning because big surprise, I wasn’t very well. Job 2- Labourer- Pretend to work instead of resting. I worked 11 hour days and some of those days involved getting lumber off of a ship and then taking it to the storage. I worked very quickly and often got out of breath so that my colleagues could get all the…
This sub has opened my eyes on alot of the abuse I took while working for companies. I'm fairly young and have only had a few jobs where I stayed way too long. I'm a CNA. What are good questions to ask during an interview to assess how they treat their employees and compensate them fairly?