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There was something better.

Old job: * artificial “emergencies” and “urgent” requests (eg our client would ask for something by January 2, our work would demand we send it out xmas eve *artificial overwork caused by ridiculous and time consuming processes that kept changing *1-2 hours per day “tracking” our work * constant fear of making a mistake, compounded by the fact many staff were laid off and we were having To monitor temps . people got in trouble for no smiling enough (not a customer job) *never getting an actual day off because of having to answer emails, and having to use pto if we didn’t work 8 hours a day even if worked 70 hours that week *constant negging from senior leadership about how lucky we were to have a jobs and that people in In developing nations could do it better and faster New job: Part of a union Supportive senior…


Old job:
* artificial “emergencies” and “urgent” requests (eg our client would ask for something by January 2, our work would demand we send it out xmas eve
*artificial overwork caused by ridiculous and time consuming processes that kept changing
*1-2 hours per day “tracking” our work
* constant fear of making a mistake, compounded by the fact many staff were laid off and we were having
To monitor temps . people got in trouble for no smiling enough (not a customer job)
*never getting an actual day off because of having to answer emails, and having to use pto if we didn’t work 8 hours a day even if worked 70 hours that week
*constant negging from senior leadership about how lucky we were to have a jobs and that people in In developing nations could do it better and faster

New job:

Part of a union
Supportive senior management
Very Occasional time crunches, due to real deadlines
Learn transferable job skills
17K more
More days off, that can actually take
Lunch break!

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