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My eyeshadow is missing from my makeup bag after boss borrowed it

This is the same boss who ate half of my lunch before. That didn’t get resolved btw, but never happened again (needless to say, I was more careful about my food). Few days ago, she wanted to touch up her face before a meeting and asked to borrow some of my makeup. I gave her my makeup bag and she returned it shortly after. The next day, I noticed that my favorite glitter eyeshadow was missing and just… I want to ask her about it, but I’m worried it might sound like I’m accusing her of stealing. Should I just let it go and get a new one?

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We Need You

No successful societal change has ever happened without a clearly organized movement. Martin Luther King realized that “those who love peace must be as organized as those who love war” in order to affect real change to our society. Most people operate on hope, but hope is the idea that someone else, someone other than ourselves, is going to do the work. Truth is, we’d be better off without it. The hard truth is, no one is going to do the work but us. We must do the work. We must organize, we must organize as effectively as those who love war. Imagine then, a military without weapons, an army without guns, an organization ready to mobilize its energy and resources throughout the world on a moment’s notice. Imagine hundreds, no…thousands, no… millions of people singing the same song, operating under the same belief that corporate corruption is wrong and…

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My worker cannot stand very long because she has a bad back- she has asked for less hours but none of the managers have given her less hours.

My friend suffered an injury (I’m not sure yet if it’s a work related injury) and she had to stay in the hospital because of this injury. She cannot stand for very long because it is painful- she does have a doctors referral to not use a lot of strain or pick up heavy things, the job has all of her medical records too form this. I just don’t know what else she can do, since no one will give her less hours, and I know they can because they give two other older women less hours. Trying not to give to much detail because of her privacy but this job makes us stand for 9 hours with one lunch in between She is sitting when she can now, but she has to stand when there is a customer, but it’s still rough on her

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denim jeans.

Context: I’ve been working at a fairly popular fast food chain for around 3 years. I work a 5 day week and get paid barely minimum wage. What happened: a couple of days or so ago, big boss man who owns all of the restaurants for this particular brand in the region comes in. He does this every now and again, checks up on how the restaurant is, fixes anything that needs to be fixed, etc. He’s been doing this since long before I ever started working here, and then one day he has the gall to tell my supervisor to tell me off for not wearing the “correct attire” (didn’t even tell me himself). So y’all can get a bit of context, the “correct attire” is dark coloured denim jeans along with the company shirt (provided). I was wearing dark coloured pants (not denim cuz denim’s fucking expensive). Now,…

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People need jobs – Jobs need people

My first job ever was at a small landscaping company owned by a friend of my Dads. The pay was crap, the work sucked and I had no idea what I was doing. But I was a gamer kid who had never touched tools really so it was whatever. My boss was cool but did not mess around if you pissed him off. We had 4/5 employees and 3 trucks. It was my first job so I was pretty much a Yes Man my first two years, doing some of the dumbest jobs you could think of. I used my own truck to get to jobs and rarely ever got reimbursed for gas money. I was the only one willing to do certain jobs. I did most of my work by myself and ended up running a truck and trailer by the end of the year because another employee got…

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The Super Bowl will earn billions for billionaires. Let’s change that. Boycott the Super Bowl.

Average Seat Cost: $7,542. Seats: 70,000. Total: $527,940,000. Over half a billion dollars just from seating. They don't need or deserve our money or our attention. Then, factor in the income from advertising, food, drinks, merchandise, etc. They're expecting millions of eyes on this. They're expecting to make billions and pay their workers pennies. They don't need or deserve our money or our attention. ​ Make the Super Bowl a non-event. Make boycotting the Super Bowl and sending a message the event. ​ The message? The billions came from us. Never forget that. We won't. ​ Here are some fun suggestions I have for your Super Bowl 2022 Boycott Day: Connect with family and friends however you safely can. Go to the gym, exercise, or go for a long walk. Play Football. You probably need the exercise. And it's fun. Volunteer work. Do what you did on Saturday again. Saturday…

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Petition Regarding Millions of Australians Living in Poverty

Prices are rising for everything in Australia but our wages here remain the same. Millions of Australians are working but are still unable to make ends meet due to the rising costs of rent, food, transport, fuel. https://www.change.org/p/current-centrelink-payments-below-poverty-line The petition is linked above, if you could give it a read and a signature it would be much appreciated. Families are suffering due to this crisis

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Employees need jobs – Jobs need employees

My first job ever was at a small landscaping company owned by a friend of my Dads. The pay was crap, the work sucked and I had no idea what I was doing. But I was a gamer kid who had never touched tools really so it was whatever. My boss was cool but did not mess around if you pissed him off. We had 4/5 employees and 3 trucks. It was my first job so I was pretty much a Yes Man my first two years, doing some of the dumbest jobs you could think of. I used my own truck to get to jobs and rarely ever got reimbursed for gas money. I was the only one willing to do certain jobs. I did most of my work by myself and ended up running a truck and trailer by the end of the year because another employee got…

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Fired 6 months ago after 4 years. Today I saw the listing for my position

I was fired with zero notice in August. I did nothing wrong. My coworker was also fired. Even tho the boss got over 100k in ppp loans and we were only slightly below our monthly sales vs previous years except 2020, he decided it would be cheaper to fire the 3 trained people he had and hired one girl to do the work of 3 people. Today I saw the listing for the job and “multitasking is strongly discouraged” had me laughing as there is not enough time in a day to do all of the work and the whole job is a multi task. It’s been 6 months and the time off has been a blessing because I could never take vacation and he took away my using pto for days off since I could never use them for a vacation. This time off has allowed space and time…

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Help Support Hershey’s Workers – YARD SIGN FUNDRAISER

Hi folks. I'm a volunteer helping to raise money to support the 1,100 workers voting to unionize at the Hershey Chocolate plant in Stuarts Draft, Virginia. The workers will be voting in the next few weeks via mail or in person. The date of the election and process are unclear at this point, but one thing is certain: Hershey’s is intent on crushing the union effort. They have hired the infamous Labor Relations Institute to disseminate false information and anti-union propaganda. These “consultants” cost thousands of dollars a day to employ, proof alone of what workers stand to gain if they win. Hershey’s has also set up a webpage, WeAreHersheySD.com, to further spread disinformation to workers and disrupt the fair process of an election. Most concerning is Hershey’s plan to distribute hundreds of yard signs in the community around the plant. You can see what these signs look like at…