Antiwork

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…

Moving is not an option; I’m taking care of family members with dementia. Very long hours and no room for upward movement. Pay is great for my area and the benefits are amazing, but I’m being worn down. I’ve talked to supervision about how newer hires should be doing the BS work and not me (we’re very seniority based ), but they tell me that I’m one of the work horses and that I do the job right, going so far as to say that they regret hiring the new hires due to their work ethic. I’ve thought about going online and taking coding courses through Cloud Guru, but I don’t know if something like that would secure me a remote job . Any advice would be great. ( I work for a LTL company )

At my wife's job, they have been making one of the employees that's been there for years file their taxes for them. He is not an accountant, nor is my wife. It's her first year there and this will be her first tax filing season with them. She feels that once this co-worker of hers is gone, which may or may not be soon, they will start telling her to take on that responsibility. I don't want to give too many details in case this is somehow seen, but this isn't anything close to her role for the company and was obviously not in her job description. She has told me when they eventually do ask, she will not do it because she doesn't feel comfortable. I'm wondering how she can go about this. It seems to me that either (1) she would need a significant raise if they expected…

Do you know the Boulder Pledge? Basically it’s just vowing to never buy anything offered via spam. Well those customer surveys you get are also spam. Don’t participate. Don’t do them, ever. For anyone who works in customer service they’re just another headache and another excuse to cut wages via not giving raises to at least match inflation. For every worker getting some sort of bonus for good surveys there’ll be 2 the surveys are being leveraged against. The expense of running and reviewing those surveys have to be excused by reducing labor costs, after all. And it’s not like they really care what your opinion is. That’s what they have marketing people for. The surveys are just about judging the end of the line customer service workers (and that they’re doing what they’re trained to, not necessarily that they acted how you’d like), regardless of how the questions are…