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Their Success Is Not Our Success
I’ve had this happen a couple of times. On LinkedIn I sometimes apply to jobs listed as hybrid who don’t post their schedules because sometimes they offer fully remote work which is annoying because if they marked it as remote it’d be easier to find. I have had some recruiters get mad at me for asking about remote possibilities. They never post the schedule on their postings so I always have to ask “Is remote with in office as needed possible”? Sometimes they will tell me yes, it is and I wouldn’t have known had I not asked. But some people have been mad or outright hostile. I had a lady write a novel to me when I politely asked. I just had a guy get annoyed with me when I asked and he said “This is HYBRID and will never be “as needed” A “Sorry, this is the schedule.…
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The local dumpster fire
I'm a college graduate, got a bachelor degree in Graphic Design, genuinely love art and design, and being a big man child, I love collecting toys and trinkets. I landed a job in Graphic Design for a toy distributing company, I do toy packaging, school stationeries and so many fun stuff. My boss is chill, met a lot of new people, I got to keep some of the toy samples, even went to movie premieres. But…. After the 2-month intern period, I signed a 6-month “training” contract, in this case means no insurance, no compensations, no overtime pay. I worked overtime for 1 week (which is an extra day worth) because we all really want the project to be success. Not only taping my ass to a chair all day, but scrawny old me get to be down at the warehouse and moving heavy-ass boxes around because “we're short on…
CNN – Labor Secretary says Congress needs to block rail strikes without new deals If “for some reason [one of the unions] doesn’t get to an agreement with the companies then … Congress will have to take action to avert a strike in our country,” he said. Unfortunately – the scenario I laid out in this post from July 15 is bearing out. Biden is going to urge Congress to block railroad workers from striking, because he helped give them 1 sick day a year. Marty Walsh made it clear as day with these comments. Friends – we must stand in solidarity with the railroad workers – our economy relies on them yet we can't give them basic work life balance? One sick day a year for folks who are on call a majority of their lives? Working 70 hour weeks without any predictability in their schedule?
TLDR: We are all living in a coal company town. It's just bigger and gives us the illusion of choice. I grew up in the coalfields amid burned-out company towns. My morning bus commute to vocational school went through Clinchco (named for Clinchfield Coal Company. The company was later purchased by Pittston, then Alpha Natural Resources, which is now Contura Energy). In the days of the coal mining towns, companies employed tactics to force more labor out of their employees. All housing was owned by the coal company, as were the doctors and the company store—the only food source for most residents. The companies paid miners in company scrip only redeemable at the company store and for company housing and services. If productivity was down, the company raised rent and food prices. When more labor was needed, companies recruited from the slums of northern cities and poor European immigrants getting…
