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H.R. 2418: Student Loan Forgiveness for Frontline Health Workers Act

My Wife is a 2nd year Medical Resident and has been on the Frontline of covid for that time. She works easily 80-100 hours a week and depending on the amount can make less than 15 hr. Add in the rising cost of living and student loan repayments about to restart things have been very stressful financially at home. I'm asking everyone here if they can please contact their local rep and ask them to please support bill HR2418 This bill would be life changing for my Wife and so many more Healthcare workers who have worked non stop these last few years Thanks! Edit to add, follow this link to easily find your local rep, it also provides email templates to contact them https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/117/hr2418/comment

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Moral/legal to Automate Other’s Jobs

Lurker here. A while ago I saw a post from a user who had automated their entire WFH job into a few minutes of work a week. I'm sure many of you are also aware of this post or maybe others like them. Now they did the coding for this themselves and are still providing the company they work for with the service they asked for, for the price they agreed. But what about the jobs done by people who don't have the ability to write their own code? I operate a small bespoke software engineering company, so what would the reasons be why I shouldn't take clients asking to automate their WFH jobs for a fee? I see this as fair game but have a feeling there is something I am missing. And I'm fairly confident the internet will tell me if I am.

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How I worked for the cheapest company ever

When I moved to Canada, about 8 years ago, I was given a work permit to work at this IT company. They knew that for the next two years I didn’t had a choice but to work for them, or I would have to leave Canada. When I tell people what kind of work environment I had there, they can’t believe me. Btw the company is alive and kicking until this day. We were told to bring toilet paper from home. They wouldn’t buy it. Same thing for water. Tap or home. Not to mention tea or coffee. No AC in the summer – saving electricity (and there were some hot days there). There was a parking in the building. 50$ a month. They refused to pay it and preferred me running outside every 2 hours to move my car. They would make me come work weekends at least twice…

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The truckers have a stupid cause but an effective means of getting attention. I am thinking about how we mobilize to actually change shit. I’m just so tired and don’t wanna wait until the country sinks itself…

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My health insurance just sent me a coupon for Valentine’s day…

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Friend had $200 in tips stolen from last paycheck. The employer even documented a reason lmfao. Is it slander to post about it on Facebook/ online?

Edit: They have already reported the issue.

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Each job requires 2 weeks notice!

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America does care about its workers because a worker working two jobs is a more taxable commodity and therefore better for our national debt.

Someone just posted this, people in that thread are talking about how America doesn't care, they're right but they're also wrong America wants us where we are, That's why there's no change. The situation that we are rebelling against is exactly where they want us. They're only willing to give up as little as humanly possible and until we demand more and and I mean demand not “ask” or “tell” like “refuse to move and stand in the way” demand. We need to become a problem that will get fixed become a squeaky nail, get hammered. Remember The class war is real. How many of you want to spend your late formative years and early relationship seating years struggling to survive on 80 hours a week. We might be able to force them budge a little bit with wage but the only way we'll get any real change that will…

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Klarna – They expect you to pay on time but their recruitment doesn’t get back to you when they say they will. Oh, and 2 of those shitty “Logical Reasoning” pattern tests just to waste your time even more.

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Quit On Cheap Boss And Started My Own Business

Little backstory, I have 12+ years of experience in software development, business management, and digital marketing. I used to work for a retail equipment distribution company – the business model was very simple, buy from liquidations at pennies on the dollar, refurbish, and sell it back to retailers. My job was to rebuild and expand the e-commerce side of things. My “boss” was a sales guy who had a very close relationship with the CEO. They created my position in order for my “boss” to get additional commissions off someone's hard work (me). This boss was the cheapest mofo i've seen in my life. We'd go to lunch and he'd have me paypal him ridiculous amounts like $5. Even while I increased sales by 600% I was never taken out to lunch on the company dime. I started on a $60k salary with commissions, ended up doing about $80k my…