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I did not tell my boss where I am going.

I work in insurance, claims to be specific. I have been with my current company over three years. I put in my two week notice after I accepted a much better role with a 30% increase in pay at a competitor company. My boss asked who I was leaving the company for, out of her curiosity, and went on to say that at her last company, employees were not allowed to continue for their last two weeks if they were leaving for a competitor. I lied and said I was going to be leaving the insurance biz indefinitely. Who knows what would’ve happened if I told her the truth, but I’ve got one week left at this place

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We call him “laps.”

So I work for a company that builds gaming pcs and repairs electronics and I'm like 90% sure there is a tech here that just kills time walking around the building throughout the day. He is in a different department, doesn't talk to anybody, has his hood up all the time and my coworker and i see him in different parts the building multiple times a day. We've taken to calling him “laps” because all he does is walk laps around the building all day. Good for you laps, may you never be caught.

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A long one, but a good one.

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The great resignation

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My friend is an incredible massage therapist who happens to have a medical alert service dog. She interviewed with more than one Massage Envy location and got this response.

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Success is wearing a suit, going to a corporate office, and contributing nothing of value to the world

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Stop fetishizing small businesses. They are the first gatekeeper in exploiting the working class

Small businesses can rarely pay a living wage. And there are a lot of them. So many of them in fact, that their inability to pay living wages actually suppresses the average wages. Large corporations will (sometimes) pay more, but the floor is so low due to the economic non-viability of most small businesses that they don’t have to pay much more than a living wage. Small businesses are touted as a way to fight back against corporations, yet their continued existence lowers the value of labor as a whole in the market. If capitalists really believe in “the free hand of the market” they will agree that any small business that can’t afford to pay its workers a wage they need to survive SHOULD close. We need to stop giving our money and labor as charity to the petite bourgeois if we want this dynamic to change

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Thinking about this makes me sick

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Religion has always been controlled by the rich and powerful

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If Starbucks thought firing Memphis union leaders would silence us they—they are very much mistaken. Our movement is only getting stronger, and we know that we will win our jobs back, our union, and our fundamental human and civil right to organize!