Antiwork

My Gf (20f) works for her sisters. They own two restaurants in California and literally forced my girlfriend to work for them since she was 17. Her parents also just went along with it. Now the sisters restaurants is very successful ( them literally bragging they make $5k-7k profit per day.) Unfortunately they treat their workers especially my girlfriend, their own sister like trash. They expect her to work for them as their manager with all sorts of expectations but pay her minimum wage. Not only that behind closed doors they berate her and blame her for not running their business for them. Not just her but makes extremely racist comments about their employees and insults them as well. The worse of it all is they steal their employees tip while proclaiming they distribute it fairly. How you say? They claim all the tip money at night and instead of…

quiet quitting is same as “doing your job” quiet hiring is same as “exploiting your employees” it seems like it makes quiet quitting sounds bad while making the exploitation sound good?

I'm not one of the people affected. My time at Flexport ended long ago. But I'm still in contact with most of my former co workers cause they're a brilliant bunch. I opened Linkedin yesterday to so many co-workers posting they were impacted by the 20% layoffs. I reached out to a few who were affected and one of them told me just a few months ago in a company wide all hands type of meeting the CEO Ryan Peterson said that the last major layoffs by Flexport were the biggest mistake of his life. Most of them were assured layoffs wouldn't happen just last month. As I said I haven't been with Flexport in a long time so i have no clue why the layoffs happened. It's my personal opinion that it's just poo on the company's end and by the CEO to lay off 20% of your work…

In the Netherlands, where I am from. Lots of types of companies are fully unionised. So for intstance, if you are a school or a hospital. Automatically all the jobs fall under the Collective Labour Agreement. I looked up an english version to share here. Its for Univerity jobs. Its a 130 something pages long. So maybe not read the whole thing, but lookup sick leave. Or maternaty leave. Or this gem: “An employee is entitled to six weeks of leave in the event of adoption or when a foster child is admitted for permanent care and education, which leave can be taken during the period stipulated in the Work and Care Act.” Here is the link: https://www.universiteitenvannederland.nl/files/documenten/CAO/2022/UNL-18575-07-CAO%20Nederlandse%20Universiteiten%202022%20%28EN%29%20(2).pdf.pdf)

Context: My company work with “tasks” that the company client hire us. So Im in charge of review those tasks and see if the stimated time is correct and distribute the work with the rest of the team. I always knew that the company get a big cut of tha money but goes beyond that. In terms of moneys the company gets arround 10-60€/hour of the “task” some times twice my salary (without taxes). But thats not all, some task are overstimated, ie: The task 8h stimated but normally is finished under 4-5h, so my company gets that 3h for free because the client already paid. They justify this because they said that some time the stimation is the other way arround but when that happened they try to ask more hours to the client to make the work “profitable”. When I got promoted the rise was not really big…