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The Unemployed Epidemiologist Who Predicted the Pandemic: For years, Rob Wallace warned that industrial agriculture could cause deadly outbreaks at a global scale. It made him an exile in his field.

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National Call In Sick To Work Day

I've heard people joke about how the Monday after the Super Bowl should be national call in sick to work day. You do you.

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Is anyone else a former Call Center worker?

I worked several shitty jobs in my life but the worst of them were call center jobs. It's something about having a headset that I can't take off that is particularly dehumanizing. It's more than a thankless job, it's a pointless job that should not exist. If a customer wants to bitch and moan, do it by email please . Working at CC with a Bachelors degree and student loan debt felt even more Hellish. I even had a supervisor who didn't graduate high-school at all. To be fair he was a great/intelligent guy who just didn't give a care about higher-ed at all.

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I’ve seen this going around Facebook and being condemned by so many. Thought it might get some love here.

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This subreddit is a broken record

After 5 minutes you hear the same story. Come up with new material and just don’t karma farm.

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Is Unionizing in the Adult Novelty Industry possible?

Hey all, I work at a small chain of adult novelty stores in PA. There’s 5 video & toy locations and 3 smoke shop locations. The owner of our company makes millions a year & we make tens of thousands of dollars in profit a week at my store alone. The issue: we get paid SHIT. Starting wage is about $9/hr for sales associates. I’ve been with the company since October and have been promoted to key holder, with a $1 raise. After discussing wages with managers, I found out that they’re not even making $15 an hour and were promised somewhere between $14 and $17, but upper management tried to get away with just giving them $13. Even working fulltime and overtime I’m barely pulling in $500 a week, and that’s only if I completely disregard my mental and physical health in order to work constantly. I love my…

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Total Wine: A Total Failure

I don't work at total wine, but I went there to buy a bottle of wine for Valentine's day. As I was checking out I noticed that the cashier's hand had some sort of tape or something on it, so I asked them about it. They said that they thought they had seen some sort of display sign and attempted to hit it or something, but it was actually some green glass and it cut up their hand (tbh the story was sort of confusing, mostly because I am bad at social interactions I think). I asked if that means they would receive worker's compensation. They said Total Wine requires a doctor's note, and they can't afford to reload their bus card to see the doctor. At the very end they said “I hate capitalism”, which I quite appreciated. I gave them a cash “tip” for their nice service, and…

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Shouldn’t of been hired?

I was employed as a work from home – customer care representative. The company offered nice benefits and pay, the management was nice, and work was simple. I was digging it. After 4 weeks of working (2 weeks of training, 4 days of nesting) and about a whole work week into actual production. I had already collected 2 paychecks and was working on my third. While in the middle of a call, I get a side chat to log out of systems and join zoom with a team leader. I mean okay, I'm thinking maybe I did something wrong but thought I was doing a good job. Wrap up the call and join zoom only to be told that he was just sent an email with information saying my background screening process failed. I shouldn't have been hired or allowed to work on the project I was working on. Mind…

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Thank you for masking!!

I wanted to thank everyone for continuing to wear a mask even after being vaccinated. I know we are now at the point where the mask mandates are being lifted but as I see things like HIV beginning to run rampant in places like the Netherlands I would strongly encourage everyone who is currently vaccinated to continue wearing a mask and also get HIV tested. It's better to be safe!

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Manager of Super One harassed person with down syndrome

I'm not sure this is the best place to post this but please let me know where to go if not. I just know this community has review bombed before and this store deserves it more than most. My friend who lives in Whitefish, MT has a sister with down syndrome. She recently received money from the state for her disability and was really excited to buy groceries for the family. My friends mom took her daughter with down syndrome to the local Super One to get groceries and was checking out. The manager(Tim) heard that she was buying the groceries with state money she received for her disability. He proceeded to heckle her and say “I can't believe this is where our tax dollars are going”. He then called his friend over and told him what was happening like it was a joke. They followed them out to the…