Antiwork

I actually learned how much better workers have it in other countries while I was working at the new US branch of a Canadian company. There was a Canadian employee I had to deal with via email who was incompetent and absolutely sucked at her job. Half my job was fixing her mistakes, yet she had been employed there for almost 5 years. I asked my boss why she wasn't fired and he explained that in Canada and most of Europe you can't fire someone unless they REALLY mess up. And even then the employee can still sue. The kicker was the US branch was in a State with the worst job security due to at-will employment laws favoring employers. Any little thing can get you fired, no questions asked. I noticed heads were rolling in the US office while Canada was screwing up and no one could do anything.…

So I am going to keep this short but my girlfriend works in administration in an office and November/December they have their peek of work. Every staff has to do a huge amount of overtime (unpaid), but they are promised a bonus. So she worked her ass off during that time and wrote down the hours she did (over 200) in this time to compare the bonus to what the workers are receiving. Well among the team they got randomly assigned 200 – 400€ of bonus for more than 200 hours unpaid overtime. This felt like a slap in the face. She wants to change the company but the current economic situation is still bad after covid. We are from Spain and we depend on the income to survive. Just wanted to share the story here as I think it fits. Cheers

Leaders create great solutions considering complex factors. Leaders up lift workers and absorb blame when things go wrong. Managers say stop being on Facebook so much or have you tried just doing x thing 3 times as much so you accomplish more? Let's get some you might be a manager if.. jokes going her so I don't throw my computer out the window in rage. I'll start You might be a manager if… you end meetings 5 mins early and think we appreciate you “giving us some time back”

Despite coming in on days off, staying later or coming in earlier, and helping catch up after hours my boss still made a snide comment when I leave on time.

I am moving onto a different company. My replacement currently works at the company that I’m leaving. It turns out they offered her $10,000 a year less than when I was making. Basically they want to give her my higher level position at the current salary that she has. Years ago I heard that if you were going to replace somebody within your company legally you’re required to offer them the same compensation that the original worker was getting. I don’t actually know if this is true and my googling abilities are not great so I can’t verify if my company is doing anything illegal. Does anyone have any insight into this? Quick edit: I forwarded her my compensation plan so she knows exactly what I make.

So, I tried to get ahold of my local NLRB office, left them messages, etc. In the meantime, I had my 90-day review last Friday, during which the Clinic Manager had no negative remarks and had suggested that I will receive a $2/hr raise in coming weeks but we'll work out specifics later. Fast forward to today, still unable to get in touch with the NLRB, got called into the same Manager's office and was told that I am being laid off due to “budget cuts” and that several others will be laid off as well. Now I'm home in the middle of the day trying to understand what the hell just happened. I have my termination notice in writing and won't even be able to get unemployment benefits (at least, to my knowledge) because I am on-call for a different employer. So, what the fuck? Do I contact an…