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Do you know any worker co-operatives?
What are some popular ones?
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A bummed end to a bummed year
Just wanted to let off my dissapointment really. I've been working at a place for over 2yrs under a temporary contract (which has affected my ability to get a mortgage but thats another story) and through these 2 years ive been dangled numerous carrots of permanent contracts that haven't materialised. I ended up applying for another position at the place i work and i was told by colleagues in higher positions that they thought i'd get the position, but i obviously just tried to ignore all of that and focus on my interview. It went well and i had a phone call a few hours after my interview that i missed due to being at work. From experience, i know they call the successful applicant and email the rest. I rang back but to no response, so waited until today (monday) for another call back. Today, i finally got the…
Hey Reddit, whatre some anti work hacks you’ve seen employees do at work. I’ll give an example of one I’ve seen. I worked at a company with an unlimited sick time policy. My coworker would always take advantage of it when she wanted a “free day” or got pissed off by the company.
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Pokémon feels our pain
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“iTs NoT sLaVeRy YoU cAn JuSt qUiT”
I know I’m late to this but I just watched the video on YouTube where a news anchor drills one of the mods on here with questions. I was going to type out an entire refutation but figured I’d just focus on this one argument that these capitalist bootlickers make. “It’s not slavery, when you can just quit.” -Sure, it’s not in the sense where it’s blatant forced slavery. However, when you pay SLAVE wages you coerce these poor people to stay in these slave wage jobs, they work paycheck to paycheck and they CANNOT quit, why? Because how tf are they gonna pay rent/mortgage and put food on the table now? These people don’t make a decent wage so they’re forced to live in an endless chain of paycheck to paycheck, slave away for such shit wages that they literally cannot break the chain or else they’d be on…
Like imagine something happens and we end up with a political party who passes legislation that ends up arresting corporate CEOs for price gouging critical needs.
