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My Boss

Yep, that's right. Oh wait, I should probably explain. Ahem. There I was, sitting by myself in the Wendy's bathroom. I saw a light gleam from under the bathroom stall. There he was, standing right in front of me with my dick and balls out. He said to me, “what the fuck are you doing do you need help?” I looked at my watch, and it read 12:00 at night. It was closing time. He then told me that he wasn't paying me overtime to jack off. Fuck capitalism.

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Struggling with new supervisor & communication & autism.

Posted originally on the autistic adults subreddit and was told to post here. I did so a bit over a month ago but it has gotten much worse. For the record I am an autistic afab person. How do you guys deal with bosses that straight up refuse to communicate with you in ways you understand? The new office coordinator (the person above me and below the office manager) is making my life hell. She’s been in charge since beginning of January and as soon as things start to get better they get worse. I brought several examples to the office manager (who’s in charge of everyone) and got told it’s actually me who needs to kiss her ass more. One example of many is: I have told her “hey this set of instructions doesn’t make sense to me and I don’t feel comfortable doing this task because the guidelines…

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The More things change ……work after the plague.

There is a great piece in the NY Times about work after the Black Plague during the middle ages. Apparently, the elite landowners used laws and threats of death to force workers back to the farm. “In the years after the plague, all across Europe, landowners and noblemen watched, first in outrage, then in fury, as people walked away from their jobs and went in search of a better life. What followed was a hysterical wave of legislation that tried to return the economy to where it had been before the plague. Statutes and ordinances froze wages at pre-plague levels; they made it illegal to leave a master's land, illegal to flee; they, in effect, made unemployment itself illegal.” Note: The NYT is paywalled for most.

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My Husband Got “Demoted” Today but it Really Feels Like He Got Fired

My husband, “Billy”, has always been the hardest working person I know. Seven years ago, he started as a sales rep for an online marketing company (DM me and I’ll name and shame) and he worked his way all the way up to Director. 60 hours a week and the only time he took “vacation” was to go to the dentist. He consistently got to go on the lavish annual company trips because he was so good in all of his roles. In fact, a week ago they were confirming him to go to the next one in Vegas because he had won again (the last one was in Cancun). He just had his annual review in January and received another raise ($200K a year with commission and worth every penny). But today, out of nowhere, he got pulled into the CEO’s office and everything changed. He was given the…

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Taking sick leave. Lol. Do they even look up the laws.

Lol, was told today by my boss with a manager witness that in order to take sick leave I have to wake up even earlier then I already do for work, not getting paid of course, to make sure I'm sick or not and call at that time. So I have to call in hours before I start work. Doesn't matter if I fall ill while sleeping. And it was highly emphasized that taking to much sick time would be punished. I looked up the state law and it says that's a no, no and is on the fence of being a no no, for the first part. Basically an employer in my state cannot penalize an employee for taking sick time. I will call when I wake up at my normal time. That's that. They will not have anymore of my free time and I see 3 am calls…

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Pay Inequalities for Contract Workers

I am incredibly angry right now and do not know what to do. I work as a research contract employee through a contracting company at a large agricultural research company. I am hired by the contracting company to work for the actual company that I am physically at forty hours a week. This position is a high level research position that required a bachelors degree in biology/chemistry/something related. I am involved directly in the research and development pipeline with my work here. The other contract employee in my lab was just hired for a full time position with the actual company in a different part of the lab, so we are hiring another contractor to fill her spot. I was trying to help a friend apply to the spot so I looked up the application online to send to him. The starting pay is listed as $19/hour. I have been…

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I work for a Fortune 500 company and I need help/advice to negotiate my upcoming raise. They also get us to sign paperwork to not discuss our raises, I’m in Canada are there laws against this?

Hello everyone! (I live in Canada not USA)** So some background, I've been working for this company for about 3 1/2 years and I really like my job and the people I work with. My job is pretty easy, I take inbound calls for a few credit card companies to do customer service. My only complaint with my employer is that they suck for wages. 3 years ago when I started I made Min wage ($14), and now I make $15.35. Last year this company's net income was 600 Million. I don't think it's unreasonable to want a much higher increase in my raise this year considering how much money they make. What kind of increase do you think I can ask for, and how do I do it, I've had no experience with this before. Also, I can threaten to leave but I wouldn't because there are so…

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This guy knows one thing – how to talk a lot, but say nothing

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Have stomach bug, manager still wants me to work.

I am meant to be working tomorrow. Nobody can cover for me tomorrow. After some back and forth she said I should still come into work. They've tried to force other staff to come in tomorrow. They want me to come in and spread a stomach bug at work. It's unreal. I can't think it's legal as well. Managing director up until 5 minutes ago was refusing agency staff. However she had the realisation there really will be nobody available tomorrow. What really pisses me off is my manager claiming she cares about our welfare when it evidently a complete lie.

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Am I an Idiot for Being Optimistic About This Last Part?

The government said the Fair Wages Commission was also working on the third and final part of its mandate — to examine the gap between living wages and the minimum wage in B.C. They are going to increase the minimum wage and are looking at tying it to inflation. Which is sort of bullshit since who cares if not enough money is tied to inflation but still isn't enough?