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McDonald’s franchisee to pay $1M to employees for violating workers’ rights at 7 Brooklyn locations

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Why should I be anti-work?

Have there ever been any successful people (in any way, but particularly financially) who are anti-work? I have yet to see anybody with any real power be anti-work.

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Being forced to return to office while 90% of my team is remote. Anything I can do?

After working from home for 2 years, my employer (big tech) is making me return to the office while the majority of my team is remote. I'll pretty much be commuting to an empty cubicle. They're saying it has to be either medical or religious for them to make the accommodation at this point. I'm pretty sure that if I lived about 30 minutes further from the office, they wouldn't be making me come in. I know the rest of my team doesn't have 'medical' or 'religious' exemptions. Employees had the opportunity to go through our return to office accommodations process and our medical accommodations process at the beginning of the return to office process. We were consistent in the way we analyzed all requests and made determinations on remote status changes based on the criteria set by the executive team at the time. Our current process is that we…

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A coworker that I thought I had a good relationship w, got in trouble and blatantly lied about me to my boss

So, I am in my early twenties and I have a teaching job as a aid in a middle school. I’m in my last year of college and I work in my college town- originally I’m from a small town in out of state. Anyways this new school year several new teachers came to our school, and there’s a lot of ~ diff personalities that I’ve come in contact with. One of these new teachers is a 7th grade educator, with little experience to this position and is super young(not that age matters, we’re just closer in age than most of my coworkers). I work every day in that class with a student with severe needs so I’m in there a bunch. When the school year started we immediately hit it off because they were from my home state, and it was cool that someone else was an out of…

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Microsoft Teams Status

Anyone else seeing their status perma green when in the office but have maybe a 5 minute timer when on a VPN (working remote) before your status is changed to away?

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My boss was one of the “good ones”

My boss was always good to me, offering financial help when needed, flexibility. Good relationship. Close friends really. Then I was diagnosed with ADHD and before we even have a conversation about that, he tells me my “obsession” with this ADHD is being disruptive. It turned into verbal abuse, shouting, screaming and threats within… 30 seconds? I didn't get a word in until about 15 minutes in, after I had sobbed and begged. Terms used include (butt not limited to) :- “It's not cancer” “Up until a few weeks ago, you were fine and now you're like this?” “SIT DOWN, NO! SIT DOWN NOW! DON'T YOU DARE! NO, DON'T YOU DARE WALK AWAY” – This after denying every explanation and bit of information I could think of about ADHD to try and reframe his shouting. “This self-diagnosed, or whatever it is you got, thing of yours” – This being the…

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I had two managers text me about this. I screenshotted the first conversation and sent it to her. This lady makes my routes and she put on two extra towns more than usual. It was agreed upon at time of hire that I would be done on time to pick up my 2 year old at daycare.

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He‘s got the spirit (unionize!)

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Asked for more hours at my 2nd job

So I work Monday-Friday 7:30-4 at an insurance company and at a jewelry making shop on weekends and I honestly love both my jobs. However I told my boss at the jewelry store that I’m available weekday evenings after 4:30 so I can get more hours than just every Saturday and Sunday. I checked the schedule for November, I now work Friday evenings and Sunday. That’s it. So I actually got even less hours because after my day job to close is less hours than I’d typically get working a Saturday and now I have every Saturday off… I feel like she really missed my point of I want more hours and more money not just a different day of the week

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someone just texted me that i was getting fired

This just happened as of now. I have been working as a lead in this clothing store for about 3-4 months. I generally do not have any major issues (not trying to brag). The text comes from an unknown phone number and states “Your dumb a** is getting fired”. So far I texted them “Sorry who is this?”, and I have no response. I am hoping that this is a prank or a scam because I am just super afraid right now. I don’t work until Friday, so should I wait until then or should I call my boss tomorrow and ask about this?