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My girlfriend was let go for “legitimate reasons”. The “tasks” in question were not even brought up in the interview or in the contract. She doesn’t work in sales or finance. This is a small company who doesn’t have those departments and wanted her to do 3-4 jobs at the pay of one.

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No motivation to wanna work

I work as a water technician – kind of like servpro, except the company is smaller (7 employees). My job is pretty much dealing with mold and water in peoples houses and i make $16 an hour, my boss has us doing houses that pay him $40k+ meanwhile my paychecks are barely passing $1000 every 2 weeks of work. Why am i helping this guy get richer while im doing the work for him getting paid like dogshit?? My coworkers can’t wrap their head around this concept and apparently like bending over and taking cock in their ass for a guy who doesn’t give a fuck about them.

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Name and Shame. I will go first: Elements Brands (Charlotte, NC)

They are small E-Commerce company that buys small consumer brands and scales them. The majority of employees (sales, marketing, and accounting) work from home. They have a warehouse that fulfills all their orders and that is where I worked. The warehouse logistics team has been hemorrhaging talent throughout the year. Leadership does provide folks with the space to grow and make improvements to their departments. The downside is that starting pay isn’t terribly competitive and when you take on more responsibility and expand your role (something they explicitly state as an expectation in their job posts) they do not compensate for that. Executive leadership empowers toxic directors. Purchasing comes to mind, specifically. There is a great deal of manipulation and deception. Senior leadership will lie and gaslight people to get what they want. They will ask people to take on more responsibilities, promise a promotion “soon” and then fire them…

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Krystal Ball: Woke Union Busters are DESTROYING the Country

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Punching in?

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From Production ,to Ocean Shipping ,to ports , to rail ,to trucking ,to warehouses to retail , to commodity . JMT, globalization, monopolization, financialzation, deregulation, outsourcing of finished Goods, & Components , made our supply chains vulnerable and it blew up in the pandemic.

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May have missed it. Billy Joel had it decades before we did

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Looked at the value of two childhood homes when last sold to my family compared to now. The inflation on them is actual insanity.

The home I was born into: Bought for 29,000 British Pounds in 2000, paid outright, currently valued at 403,000 British Pounds, a rate of roughly 17,000 Pounds increase in value per year for 22 years, through a global housing crisis in the middle. The home I grew up in: Bought for 1,300 British Pounds in 1958, paid over a five year mortgage. Currently valued at 805,000 British pounds, a rough increase in value of 12,500 British pounds a year for 64 years. Really hammered it home than on the pity wages people have to survive off, we can never own property unless we inherit it, and then we'd have to deal with inheritance tax. My family still owns both of these homes, though I live in the US now rather than the UK. Shelter is a human right, this insanity needs to change.

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Found in Relative’s Basement

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Australia school implementing a new anti-phone imitative. Person in comments is worried about employers not being able to reach their child labourers during school hours.