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A Rhodes Scholar barista and the fight to unionize Starbucks

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Is this anti-work?

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ALL MONEY WORTHS NOTHING

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Walked out on toxic shith*le

I spent a good year and a half on site at a client taking care of the employees needs, only to be under mind by the ethically compromised plant manager, his boot licking lackeys, and willfully inept supervisors. There comes a tipping point where enough is enough. I’ve never considered walking out on a job before. The environment was so combative it was conducive to this type of behavior from the employees. If you push someone enough, they break. I’m not sure if I feel like I did something wrong, but I know that things could’ve been handled completely differently, mainly by the toxic management. I am so glad I’ve moved on, within a week I was offered a boost in pay and the title worth holding onto.

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My employer closing with no notice

Worked my ass off for 6 months for this company, was promised a raise twice, and then with no message or call, I went to work and the door was locked with a different key, I had to call these idiots for them to tell me the business had shut down. I honestly don't know what people are thinking.

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Follow-up on the “Work for Costco” post, from an insider.

CW, depression, suicidal ideation. Edit: I wrote this as a comment in the above thread, and found out after I tried to submit it that it had been deleted. I figured it might be worthwhile for some of you to hear what the inside story sounds like, and how variable it can be. Currently coming up on three years Costco after fifteen in retail, two of which were as a salaried manager. My time at Costco has been almost refreshing. The store functions as perfectly as can be said of any business in history, even in a pandemic. Everything that can go wrong has a plan in place with mostly good authorities in charge of it making the changes necessary when someone calls in, or someone gets hurt, or a department is getting crushed. People are cross-trained to cover, extra help is there. The worst thing that happens is a…

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My heart bleeds. Time to get something better me thinks.

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I saw this on a fox news video about homeless people getting money from the government to survive barely

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How I shut down the mcdonalds i worked at with cow manure!

So I had this really idiot manager who requested of me to do disgusting things like clean a toilet! Yuck!! One time, I had to clean a poop stain, and he said that he didn't care if I got my hands dirty, just get it finished. So I decided to show him what getting your hands dirty really meant. Th next day, I brought in some gloves and cooler full of cow manure from the local farm. As soon as I saw my boss, I put on the gloves and flung cow manure into his face! Then I began to chuck manure everywhere including the food. The entire batch of food was spoiled because I threw cow manure at it. I then threw manure at my co-workers and the customers. I made sure to get some on the floor. After manure was on the floor, I began to vigorously stomp…

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Holding up promotions and salary increment till mid-March

Long post ahead, I don't know how to make tldr so please bear with me. So the CEO of the company I'm working at (a service company in Hong Kong) announced that they're releasing promotion and salary increment arrangements in mid-Mar, and any salary increases will be with retrospective effect from 1 Jan, 2022. Say if I got a salary increase of $1k, my Mar salary slip will have an extra $3k. It's not the first time they're doing this retrospective thing, they used to happen in mid-Jan pre-2019 which is totally legal and understandable, then pushed to mid-Feb in 2020 and 2021, and now even later in Mar. I told my ex-colleagues and they think it's their way of deterring staff from resigning during the peak season in Mar. For the record, our department has 200 people and my team has around 20. Only 1 of us got a…