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Manager threatened to fire me for refusing to drive broken company van

I hope nobody here recognizes me because this is a mad specific situation. I work for a company that does mostly in town local contract work but occasionally drives out of town with a company van provided. I showed up to the meet site to pick up the company van and found that someone had broken into the van over the weekend, there was dirty clothing, food wrappers and ashes all over the back of the van and notably the battery was dead. While trying to figure out what to do someone comes by and jumps the van for us so we get ready to go. I get in the van and notice that the low oil light, low tire warning and check engine light are all on. The driver side door was also broken from a previous driver so none of the buttons or lock worked and the window…

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Is “Free Money” A Good Idea? Michael Tubbs Gave His Two Cents — and It Paid Off.

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Resigning without a safety net

TW: self-harm and suicidal ideation I’ve been trying to job hunt while still working full-time, but my spirit is so deeply crushed at this point. I barely have the will to live, much less anything else. I’ve been hanging on due to a need to maintain my insurance (I’m on some expensive and necessary medications), but after resorting to self-harm to get through the work day it finally hit me I can’t live like this any longer. I don’t care that I don’t have a backup plan. Whenever I do start dipping my toes in the water there are countless opportunities that arise, but I can’t put any time to updating my resume etc. because the minute I metaphorically clock out of work I deflate and almost become catatonic. I am planning on resigning. I want to do it tomorrow. I decided last night, but after the euphoria wore off…

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A meeting with your boss at 7:30AM is never a good thing

Manager was unhappy with me doing too much beyond my core duties. So now I'm job hunting and working to rule.

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“Nice wages you’ve got there, would be a shame if something happened to them”

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Sounds fair

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Workers are gearing up for a union election and are asking community allies to come to the store, order an easy to make drink with the name “Union Strong”

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From a training about avoiding burnout and secondary trauma in Social Services.

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Healthcare in America be like..

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Question about work from home

Girlfriend has an interview for a WFH company. She doesn’t have any internet facilities where she lives so she uses a hotspot for everything she does online. This job requires her to run a diagnostic test in order to essentially prove to the employer she has a stable internet connection and a half ass decent computer. I’ll be giving her my computer and it was a gaming pc that cost about 1k and ran pretty much every game pretty damn good. So I’m not worried about the computer, but rather her lack of WiFi. She forwarded me an email with a link to the diagnostics test and I planned on just running the test off of my computer in my home on my WiFi. Do you think that if I ran this diagnostics test and she got the job, she would be able to continue WFH off of a hotspot?…