I don't have pictures to make this more interesting or eye catching. But I just saw another post for someone who's kid had surgery and their employer only cared about her showing up.
It made me want to share why I despise right to work laws and the events that broke my back and ability to gaf about doing anything but the bare minimum for my paychecks.
First of all, it was a call center. Customer Service for a major wireless company, but we were outsource, not directly employed by that company.
besides the joke of “activity based compensation” that they restructured constantly…lol and the “great news” flyer we all received when they cut the maximum amount we could make with perfect state by a 1/4 of what it had been….
While I worked there I was t-boned in an intersection. And I received missed day points for the 2 days following that missed and then got a notice that I had enough points for termination when I got sent home the next two days in a row for being in so much pain I was at my desk barely keeping tears in from pain but not taking my pain meds cause they made me loopy and couldn't afford that actively taking calls.
One guy literally had a heart attack on the floor and they gave him points for leaving early. and then missed shifts.
When he came back and we all found out the managers on the floor actively put flyers on rhe wall and tried to campaign to end the jokes that we couldn't call out dead.
But the worst one. The one that made me viciously, actively despise them…. Was when one of my coworker's 9 year old daughter disappeared on her way home from a friend's….
They refused to even let M reduce her hours to part time and reminder her open availability had been a requirement of her employment.
She was quit or was terminated shortly after for not coming in to work. Noone ever provided a clear answer which. Except we all knew she would not be emotionally able to detach from her search for 9 hours a day with no phone. cause we weren't allowed.
While there were still flyers of her daughter all over every store you walked in to. In the front lobby of the call center and our break rooms to show how the company “supported” her search.
They didn't find her daughter for years. And when they did it was her skull way out in the woods very far from where she lived and it was still a child's skull.
I still have the news set to trigger with her name even though I literally have never seen or talked to her mother again since right after it happened.
I still feel violently angry every time I think about it. I can't go in to my favorite coffee shops anymore cause every time I see their peg board without her face I just sick to my stomach.
I fled that place the second I found a legit wfm customer service contracting company and works as an independent operator. But was released from that company when my narcolepsy got so bad I couldn't stay awake. And as far as that's concerned… it is severe enough there aren't any “reasonable” accommodations to be made for it.
So now I'm on disability, barely managing to survive and I hate it. Trying to learn how to program on my own to make discord bots and apps to sell to make money and see if I can ever make enough to live.
And the idea of going back to work for literally anyone else is just so triggering.
So anyway that's the deal.
How do you guys survive?
If you have any ideas to throw my way please share.