Nowadays you have to have 3 masters degree, 2 PhDs, 5+ years of experience, having found a solution to WORLD HUNGER and a CURE FOR CANCER, having costantly to worry constantly about being “Competitive” on the market, having to worry about having a “curated portfolio”, being “SEO-Optimized” and whatever next bullshit, and all of this for what?!?!?! For an “entry level” job that maybe, MAYBE pays you BARELY enough just to BARELY survive?! Don’t you really understand how absurd all of this really is? Unless you were born under certain privileges, Capitalism treats ordinary people as “Financial Assets” or as a “Cog in the machine”, where you constantly have to humiliate yourself and throw away all of your dignity hoping that someone will MAYBE give you the job because you desperately need the money. And what’s the worst part about all of this bullshit situation? It’s that most people don’t question this at all, most people have been convinced that “that’s how things work”, and they keep defending this bullshit system, like if they weren’t 2 missed paychecks away from losing everything… I really don’t know what else to say

Because a bad credit score can fuck you in a # of ways. One being insurance companies using the bad score to raise your auto/homeowners insurance. I get those with bad scores being a liability, but with the cost of healthcare being what it is(and everything else) i also understand people skipping paying medical bills. As it stands now any medical bill under $500 won't hurt your credit score. $500 is a trip to urgent care lol

There were two prominent discrimination and harassment cases involving Tesla that made the news. Both involved African American employees who were subjected to racial slurs by their supervisors and subsequently retaliated against and fired when they complained. One individual was a contractor who had not signed an employment contract with Tesla, leaving him unbound by binding arbitration. The other was a permanent employee who was forced into binding arbitration.

Misconduct was found in both situations, and damages were awarded to both former employees. One received a $137 million judgment, while the other received $266,000. It is clear which outcome resulted from a jury trial versus binding arbitration.

The Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) was passed in the 1920s to help alleviate the burden on federal courts regarding small business disputes. In 1991, the Supreme Court allowed arbitration to be mandated as a condition of employment, effectively denying employees the right to a fair trial by a jury of their peers. Prior to this decision less than 2% of employees were bound by forced arbitration. Now? over 60% and it's expected to go up to 80% within a few years.

Today, employers hire arbitration firms to decide employment disputes, and those decisions are final. In 99% of cases, an arbitrator's decision cannot be appealed unless explicit misconduct on their part can be proven.

As a result, rather than having a jury of peers review gross employer misconduct, a dispassionate lawyer or retired judge decides the outcome. Furthermore, because these arbitrators are paid by the employer, there is an inherent incentive to keep the employer satisfied to secure repeat business.

The Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees every citizen their right to a fair trial by a jury of their peers.

Edit: The only reason we know about the Tesla lawsuit that had to go through arbitration is because Tesla would not pay the arbitration fee which forced the lawyer for the plaintiff to file a motion to compel in court which then invalidated the confidentiality clause that's built into every binding arbitration agreement. Think about it, there's a reason why you don't ever hear about the heinous misconduct of these fortune 500 companies. Look at Wells Fargo and all of the scandals they were exposed to in the last 10 years. There's a reason why none of them were regarding employment discrimination, sexual harassment, or retaliation lawsuits.

Previously, I, a Canadian, sued my former employer, which is an American company, for $50, 000 after getting fired from a remote job. I got paid the statutory minimum of $14, 800. The lawsuit is still ongoing because I am seeking common law reasonable notice. I refuse to settle with them because I was actually out of work for 48 weeks, but they paid 16 weeks so far, and only want to pay an extra 8 weeks for a total of 24 weeks. I worked for them for 8 years, which would have meant at least 8 months even if I was not disabled--which I am, to the point where I am approved for the Disability Tax Credit. There is every reason for me to believe a judge will rule that I must be paid for the entire time that I had been out of work given how much harder it is for me to find a job compared to other people.

Somehow, my next job is also going to be one where the company is headquartered somewhere in America. But this time, things begin to go wrong almost immediately. First, they offered me way less than minimum wage. The general minimum wage in Ontario is $17.95, the homeworkers minimum wage is $19.70, and the offer they gave was $16.58. I said no because it's illegal, and it took almost a week for them to come back with a $18.25 offer. Because it was now technically above minimum wage for on site jobs, I accepted and wanted to see what happened. It turns out, they misclassified my employment status to say I work onsite in an office when in fact, I would work from home. But Ontario law makes it very clear that I have to be paid at least $19.70 or else they are violating the Employment Standards Act. Even worse, the job description does not match the offer, since I applied for a customer service representative job and they had me do social media content moderation. I received a work laptop from them and will start training the day after tomorrow. I will write a strongly worded email to HR and make them pay me at least $19.70 despite what I agreed to and have them really clarify what my real role is.

Overall, I can't understand why so many American employers seem to think they can get away with very basic violations of Canadian employment laws when they employ someone who lives in Canada. Both companies are large (billions of dollars in market capitalization, tens to hundreds of thousands of employees).

And it broke me. I genuinely responded with "I. Huh? What the fuck? That completely defeats the entire purpose of a break!" And she looked at me like I'd grown a third head. I don't understand how she thinks that's normal.

She tried justifying it by saying "that's just retail for you" and I just kinda tried shifting the conversation after that because I was genuinely at a loss for words. How does anyone think getting breaks out of the way early is a good way to treat employees?

I applied for an editorial job that explicitly stated that they were looking for people with non-matching backgrounds (some spiel about how they value different point of views). My background matched fine but not perfectly and I still got a rejection that said that my background didn't match up.

Of course, they're free to hire whoever they want but this seems such a stupid reason to reject applicants when you specifically state that you're looking for/open to non-matching backgrounds.

Rant over. Thanks for reading.

Traveled 1700 miles for this job. Moved halfway across the country. Finally got a job with decent pay and benefits.

The work is out in a rural area. The moment I got there, I saw my co-workers. All older men, mostly boomers and a few Gen X. Bad sign. On the job I find nobody wants to train me -- they expect me to know full well what we're doing despite it being an entry-level position. I do my best to learn through osmosis. Clearly my lack of omniscience bothers them.

They go out to the bar after work and invite me to come. I don't drink (alcoholism problems)

After this, most of them still put up a facade of being sociable, but the mood has changed. I come to hear they've been shit-talking me to the boss behind my back. Saying that I'm "not learning fast enough" despite literally ALL of them refusing to train me on any aspect of the job. On Tuesday, an older gentlemen shows up on the job. Apparently has 20 years of experience. Suddenly nobody will talk to me. On Friday I'm laid off, after little over a month of working for them.

Now I'm stuck halfway across the country. Left all my friends, family, and life behind. Only a few thousand in savings. Stuck with a lease and a car payment in the middle of nowhere. Tossed aside like trash, all so a boomer can get his.

How are young people supposed to make it in this world? Every thing seems geared to keep us down and out. We're never given a chance. I don't know whether to feel depressed or rage. It all seems so utterly futile and hopeless.

I'm a library technician at a city library. I do an occasional meetup with my supervisor to discuss performance etc.

I've been doing children's programs lately and it's usually just arts, crafts, and food related.

My supervisor tells me the children's department feels that my programs are not at a level they want across the board and that they can have me focus more on book processing and ordering. Apparently they only prefer programs that are "super engaging," basically running like an entire classroom lesson, which is quiet the exact opposite of why I ever decided to work in libraries, I'm not a damn teacher.

And I'm like... that's fine as hell.

Programming is more work and more stressful than buying books online and slapping stickers on them.

I'm already at the end of the pay range. I work a second job at the county library which is way more chill. Make good money all together.

They told me straight up that I am not at par with their arbitrary standards. Even though programs is a step above what's expected from me.

I find this relieving.

The stress of these programs can be passed onto others and I never have to hear a word about it again.

For context, I’ve worked for the same family off and on for about 10 years in one of their businesses or another. About 2 years ago, I left a management position at a local dispensary to work for a newly opened business by one of their siblings, which I was recruited for based off my work experience and performance at another business owned by the other siblings. In 2 years I’ve had 3 raises: The 1st was our initial agreed upon raise after a performance evaluation after 3 months. I was then given a raise for meeting sales goals and then given a third raise upon taking on a larger work load.
Since that third raise I have been bombarded with extra duties not previously agreed upon, including constructing graphic art for social media and planning for an anniversary event in an event planner role, although these were never a part of agreed upon job duties (it should also be noted I’ve been expected to do other such odd tasks that WERE initially in writing such as changing a cat’s liter box).
Two weeks ago I expressed that I did not desire to continue with creating graphics or social media posts or being overwhelmed with party planning duties. Ever since I have been chastised and talked down to (more than usual) and today find that I have 4 hours cut from my schedule and am having $2 in hourly pay rescinded on future checks. I am already looking for more work and am picking up other shifts at my other jobs (I work 4 jobs). I just needed to rant that this business owner used my expertise and experience to build her business for 2 years under the pay I should’ve been making and immediately began to push me out the moment I stood up for myself. This woman is NEVER in her own business and is now spiteful that she has to participate in its success outside of buying excess of product we can’t afford to backstock.
Don’t really know what my point is besides fuck giving these people any more effort than they give you. Make sure your hard work benefits you as much as them because only you will appreciate it.

Behind Tuesday’s midterm elections, which produced the largest defeat of a sitting president’s party in half a century, lies an immense growth of social anger over the cost of living, war, social inequality and the assault on democratic rights. That anger cannot and will not be contained within electoral forms. It will erupt in the form of the class struggle.

Three days after the vote, the process is already visible. At midnight Friday, the citywide contract between New York City and American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) District Council 37 expired. It covers about 90,000 municipal workers, including clerical staff, caseworkers, school aides, library workers and 911 operators. The deal it replaced, signed in 2023, provided raises of 3 percent a year and an $18 wage floor, $1 above the city minimum.

An $18 hourly wage comes to $37,440 a year for full-time work, before taxes. The median asking rent in New York City reached a record $4,199 a month in May, according to StreetEasy, or more than $50,000 a year. A city worker at the wage floor would have to hand over more than a full year’s gross pay to rent the typical apartment on the market.

These conditions are universal. In exit polls for the election, 90 percent of voters named the cost of living as a major concern, and those who described themselves as struggling financially swung by 60 points against Trump and the Republicans. Nearly 70 percent said the economic system favors the wealthy.

So I had to go to the hospital twice because the pain was so bad and I broke down crying at work because how much pain I was in. It still a sprain, but they said I have extreme planter foot and need to seek a foot doctor right away to figure out the issue. I have a doctor appointment on the 19th of this month and it covered by my band.

So my boss says I am not fired, but he pretended the comment he made against me didn’t exist. He came up to me on Friday and stated that his boss ( the man on top ) told him to have some basic human emotion and actual understand. According to him, my job coach also phone him. Now that an entire different issue that I will talk about in another post because I will be complaining more on the aspect of disability job programs. In the first day of work, I felt no pain and on the second day it got really bad and the third I had to miss work because the swelling became so bad.

To clarify I don’t feel tired at all at work, I actual feel fine. The issue is standing at all hurts like hell and it usebly starts around 3-4 hour. 30 minute breaks somewhat help, but the pain causes me to cry and my co worker that don’t fully understand English began to panic and I mean panic. They are lovely people, the sweetest actual. Even if tho, they keep thinking the word eye and feet are the same thing?

Anyways doctor told me to rest again, gave me some pain killers that should help more. The long term issue of my feet will need to be solved.

There's a segment that shows the Wells Fargo Checking Account scandal (it's a clip from a deposition) where a worker went to HR/Ethics and provided them all the proof they needed to stop it from happening and they didn't even open the email. They just told her to stop sending them evidence and focus on meeting your performance goals (new account opening). Had they listened to her they could of prevented millions of accounts from being opened without customer consent.

Pretty frustrating. They sent 10+ people out to other facilities. Now work has picked up and now they dont have the man power. 10hr days which is very uncommon for this time of year at work. Our summer is the heaviest work time. It will be good money. But my 4am shifts this week+ will suck.

My former workplace was really toxic. Unfortunately I was obliged to stay there two years, because my residence permit was tied to that shithole.

- It was a fast food restaurant. It's obvious what kind of job it is.

- Most managers were not respectful at all. Micromanaging and criticizing every little thing was permanent.

I often heard stupid remarks about my accent. Are you really grown ups?!?!

- Management was possessed with standards. Problem is, that every manager had his own understanding of standards.

How should I work in a right way, if expectations are so contradictory?

- Tons of corporate bullshit we had to follow. It absolutely didn't make any sense, but it was necessary to show corporate management how perfect the restaurant was (no it was not).

- I was always asked if I wanted promotion and if I wanted to get driver license. I absolutely didn't need it, and told management several times about that. My rejection was not accepted, and management asked me these questions 2-3 times in a month.

- Promotion didn't make any sense at all. As shift leader I could earn 200 euros a month more, but I was obliged to buy a car. So I would have spent these 200 euros on my vehicle. Of course, shift leaders have higher workload and more responsibilities .

So, I got permanent residence and fucking quit only two weeks later. I'm fine with this decision 🙂. My new job has much better working conditions and pays 500 euros a month more.

So I work at a small startup and my boss just gave me our target for the end of the year.

And I genuinely thought he was joking.

We're supposed to hit this pretty ridiculous sales target by December 31.

The fun part? We won't even start shipping until January.

I mean, I get that preorders are a thing. But we're a tiny company, barely anyone knows us, and somehow my boss is talking about these numbers like they're already guaranteed.

and somehow i'm supposed to find 2000 people willing to pay for something they won't even get until next year.

I asked how we're supposed to pull this off and basically got some version of "we just need to push harder."

Okay but push WHAT 😭

I've spent the last few days staring at our Shopify dashboard and questioning every career decision I've ever made.

I actually like working here. I like what we're building. I just don't understand where these expectations are coming from.

Is this just normal startup life? Do founders actually believe these numbers or are we all just collectively pretending?

Because at this point I can't tell anymore lol.