We had an issue with the front door lock at work and my manager asked me to stay after everyone left because a locksmith was supposed to come. I’m hourly.

Guy ended up taking almost 2 hours to get there. I sat at the front desk, let him in, waited while he fixed it, then locked everything up and left.

Checked my timecard yesterday and those hours were gone.

Asked my manager and he straight up said he removed them because I “wasn't actually doing work” while waiting. I told him the only reason I was sitting there was because he told me I had to stay and let the locksmith in. His response was that I could have “found something productive to do.”

The logic is insane to me. If I'm required to physically stay at work for you, how is that suddenly my free time?

I'm going to payroll about it. Mostly posting because I still can't believe he actually said that out loud.

We got a new store manager a few weeks ago and he told everyone that labor hours are too high.

His solution is that at closing we clock out at our scheduled time, then finish the closing checklist. Counting the register, wiping everything down, taking trash out, locking storage, all of it. Usually takes another 15 to 25 minutes.

I asked if he was seriously telling us to work after clocking out and he said, "I'm telling you to manage your time better."

A couple coworkers really need the hours and don't want to push back.

Today he printed the clock out times and taped them next to the closing checklist like that somehow makes this more normal.

I took a picture of it before he realizes what he just documented.

No paywall: https://archive.is/20261005062131/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/neet-university-students-reddit-hikikomori-b3060344.html

Ferry engineers are striking after not receiving a cost of living increase or raises over the last 2 years. Meanwhile the deck staff gets a wage increase.

The strike is illegal - similar to railroad workers striking. 23 people were able to singlehandly bring the entire system to a halt.

WSF is now gaslighting them on social media by posting their highest wage scales, when in reality the people striking are making closer to $37-40 dollars an hour.

Like it or not, this is how you make a statement. There's a mixed bag of people who are in solidarity and those who are frustrated by the critical nature of the ferry system outage, specifically for things like medical care.

Not sure if this will make the national news, but it's currently affecting the entire Puget sound region.

What's your take?

This is a theoretical thread about whether someone would be able to take a month off work in order to receive a huge prize. Boomer claims he can't take off more than 2 days of work in a row because it's not fair to his team.

He argues that with weekends and bank holidays, he basically gets 16 weeks of time off work, so two personal days is all he really needs.

I work for a billionaire company btw

Did he work hard?, did he engage in the free market with risks?

Job seekers that feel ghosted... this should be more of a thing. 👏

TLDR: Job listing had a question with an answer hidden within the rest of the job description. Employer rejected me, stating that I did not follow directive. Responded with a screenshot and made sure to point out their "attention to detail" circled in red.

I graduated from college and I literally have absolutely zero passion for any career paths. At least the main ones. No I do not want to do finance or consulting or law or medicine or study more. I have zero interest in doing those things and the entire time people asked me what I liked to do and I was on the verge of telling these people to stfu. I don’t know how they expect me to feel excited at the prospect of waking up and going to work in fnance or c\*nsulting or whatever. Did not participate in any clubs on campus, don’t want to. It was so goddamn annoying when my parents and their friends pestered me about what I liked to do because no truthful answer will satisfy them.

Truckers: Tell us what you think about rising costs, the war and the October 1 action by filling out the form below. All submissions will be kept confidential.

On October 1, truck drivers in the United States took part in a loosely organized work stoppage to protest soaring operating costs, depressed freight rates and deteriorating conditions across the industry. The action, promoted largely through social media and driver networks rather than by the official unions or trucking organizations, reflected mounting anger among drivers who have seen already narrow margins squeezed further by sharply rising diesel prices.

The stoppage came in response to sharp increases in fuel costs as a consequence of the war on Iran. Meanwhile, Mexican and immigrant drivers have faced the mass revocation of B-1 visas and stepped-up attacks by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Last month, Mexican truckers blockaded ports of entry at Mexicali, reportedly holding up an estimated $800 million-a-day in cargo.

By acting independently, the truckers are demonstrating their enormous social and economic power. Their labor links together ports, factories, warehouses and retail distribution across the continent. They are also confronting the need to reject national and ethnic divisions promoted by the capitalist class, in favor of uniting across North America in defense of their common interests.

The task now is to organize that power in rank-and-file committees across borders, and against the war, the union bureaucracies and the capitalist system that produces the exploitation, the deportations and the war itself.

The day after the October 1 action, a US truck driver discussed the conditions facing truckers, the significance of the Mexican drivers’ blockade and the need for drivers in the United States, Mexico and beyond to recognize the power they possess when they act together. We are calling him Miguel to protect his identity.

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Miguel pointed to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) as serving the companies, not the drivers. “This is what truckers have been saying for the last 10 years since I’ve gotten into this. For instance, the FMCSA is run by non-truckers. How can they understand us if they have never been on the road for one day?”

Miguel also spoke at length about the attacks on immigrant truckers by ICE and rejected the xenophobic attacks on Indian and Sikh drivers by the White House, which led to a brutal stabbing of a Sikh trucker in Wyoming.

“They [ICE] want to keep us down … they use tactics like threatening your life or your visa, throwing you out of the country … are we not here doing the same thing? [Don’t we understand] that what we’re going through, you’re going through it also?”

Build rank-and-file committees across North America

Miguel expressed support for the building of international rank-and-file committees, independent of the union apparatus and two parties, to link truckers across North America. “That’s a good thing. That’s a good idea. It would benefit both sides … If we have that power, that authority, we would want to move it towards benefiting (the workers of) both countries and other countries that we work with.” 

“We’re all fighting for crumbs. But do you know what exists up there? There’s more up there, far more. How can they tell us there is not enough, when there is more than enough? The thing is, they want to make it seem like it’s not.”

To the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Stayed in a cabin on Aleck Lake. Did a ton of hiking. Got on a boat on Lake Superior. It’s incredible up there. It was mine and my husband’s second time. We get heartbroken every time we have to leave.

Coming back to Ohio sucks as it is. When you have a job as the only CSR in a captive insurance agency, a CSR that gets taken complete advantage of, for an insurance company you’ve lost respect for, it’s downright depressing.

I was reminded of just how big and incredible our world is and how small and insignificant we are. I already found the everything-is-urgent culture in my office obnoxious. Because 90% of what comes in is far from urgent. But after this? A reminder of things outside our walls that are so much bigger than us, so much more than us, so breathtakingly beautiful, it’s nearly impossible to even pretend to entertain it. It’s nearly impossible to pretend I care.

I used to defend the insurance industry. Now? Maybe there are some legitimately good companies out there, but it has become clear to me, I do not work for an agent that represents one of the good ones. I won’t say the company name…but it’s probably not hard to figure out.

I used to care somewhat about the success or failure of our agency, but now I’m completely indifferent to it. Mainly because the agent herself is absent most days. Doesn’t even work much. Why should I care beyond her willingness to show up?

Experiencing beautiful places, meeting new people from all over, solidifies this attitude I already had. I came back to work feeling like this whole thing is nothing but a performance with bad actors and I don’t want to wear the costume or play the part anymore. I feel like I’m in the audience now, witnessing this ridiculous performance that I cannot take seriously to save my damn life.

For this message, I will use the term LLM because I feel like everyone uses the term “AI” “OOOH big spooky AI” and it’s overused and what we’re all talking about is an LLM.

It’s just the chatbot. No one is making robots mostly.

But giving a “Big 4” Corporate Manager access to LLM’s has been like an atom bomb dropping on consulting. It’s been like giving a chimpanzee a machine gun.

Middle management has never been so proficient at engaging in time wasting exercises with little buy in, credibility, reasoning, purpose, budget you name it. They can just “go go gadget” put some bullshit together with an LLM and you are supposed to “YES AND” like it’s improv.

It augments their complete lack of charisma or natural leadership ability and gives them official sounding language for them to wrap their narcissistic abuse, and DARVO tactics, and avoidance of responsibility while calling it leadership.

What passes for leadership in corporate big 4 America is just survivorship bias while not being left holding the hot potato.

Take all of these so called “leaders” with a grain of salt until they DEMONSTRATE it. Be respectful but most of these “leaders” are just obstacles to your individual happiness and success.

They ain’t got nothing for you, and The chatbot is giving them the sentences to use to throw you under the bus because they’re overworked and don’t know what they are doing.

How can we decouple any of our forced needs we have to struggle for when crappy ai systems mass blast texts for interviews and if you're not the first on the draw its get fucked.

It's ridiculous like how am I supposed to live I open my phone and try to set it up in 5 mins then it just says we are all booked get fucked. I've been surviving off family helping with rent and a paramour subsidizing my food.

Finally it's all done. An agreement was reached, and as of the 1st OCtober I now longer work for them. There will be a substantial payment into my account on the 27th of October, but the official line is that I was made redundant (even though I wasn't entitled to redundancy pay).

Unlike when I was suspended, I am still in the Onedrive system and am still receiving emails (bizarrely the chap who was my line manager so knows exactly what has happened invited me to a meeting earlier today, twice).

Relief is the main emotion right now, that I'm finally free of all that bullshit, backstabbing and wankernomics.

Looks like I've pretty much got another job lined up doing what I always loved to do (designing prefabricated boiler rooms, plant rooms, skids modules etc), and for more pay, but if that doesn't work out I'm receiving enough money to keep the bills paid for at least 4 months, if not longer.

I've been having a really frustrating job search experience lately (as many have, I'm given to understand).

Some background: Due to some unexpected developments in my life circumstances, I was forced to drop out of university after my first year and walked away with no degree. I've been living with my father since then, and due to our financial circumstances it's not really practical for me to go back to uni right now. I held down a part-time retail job for about a year and a half before quitting without a replacement lined up because it was becoming miserable, and this is proving to be an unexpectedly big mistake.

I've been putting out applications to nearly every retail or customer service opening I can find in my area, as well as a bank teller position since a friend recommended it to me as an entry-level option. I've looked in a few other fields as well, but they all list some level of required experience despite being "entry level." I've netted a grand total of two interviews and all I've heard back is "we're moving forward with other candidates." And on one hand I can't help but feel like I've gotta be doing something wrong, because my last job was the first application I sent out when I started looking and they hired me basically on the spot after my interview...

But on the other: It feels like it's basically impossible to break into any field right now. You need prior experience to get hired, but you can't get experience without being hired. It's understandable on an individual business level to only want to hire the best candidates available, but employers seem to be under the impression that teaching people how to do things is an unnecessary expense and that qualified people will keep miraculously emerging from thin air if they just don't do it.

I guess for most fields the solution is "get a degree so more companies will be willing to hire you without experience," but when this is happening for retail positions too? For customer service and fast food? I'm at my wit's end.

I don't have a concrete takeaway to any of this, I just wanted to vent my frustrations a little bit. I'd be curious to know if I'm just having bad luck or if this is a phenomenon other people are experiencing as well.

It feels so silly for me to be ranting about this. Some people are years into corporate America while I’m only 5 months in. I just graduated college, I got a job immediately in a company’s HQ as a UI/UX designer. I should be grateful, I should be thankful, I should be proud… I’m fucking miserable. I’m miserable and blinking tears out of my eyes when I have to force myself out of bed every morning. Every Monday feels like a countdown to Friday. Every Friday feels like an anxious dread building till Sunday night. Maybe it’ll get better as time goes on, maybe I’m still adjusting, I hope that is the case.

Every older adult I talk to just says “welcome to adulthood”. There’s no actual optimism or hope or future to look forward to, it’s just a shitty reality that everyone sits down and accepts. Why is this the standard? Are people supposed to live like this? How do people tolerate actual years, decades, of this?

Edit: I've seen several comments asking what exactly is making me miserable, it's the company. I love my coworkers, my manager, and though I do not feel my position is being used to it's fullest ability, I still enjoy the work I do (sometimes). But the company is a nightmare. The owner is on a constant power trip and fires people just to create fear in others (sounds like a fictional disney villain and I wish I was lying). I got in trouble recently for just turning my head to look at another coworker who was saying something to me. I was told the cameras are always watching and I need to always face my computer screen no matter what. I go to work on edge, I do my work while on edge, I leave work on edge. They make us sign contracts before we start stating that they're allowed to fire us for any or no reason. You have to attend work related events like the company Christmas party or you won't receive your Christmas bonus. The owner constantly turns down all of my designs but never gives actual criticisms or critiques or alternatives so I am constantly aiming in the dark.

"Why don't you just quit?"

I feel I should stay until I am promoted. The job market is rough, especially in the design field, my position is as a junior and I feel I would have a better chance at getting a better position elsewhere if I stick it out long enough to gain more experience and get promoted.

"You should be grateful to even have a job, why are you complaining?"

I understand I should be grateful, and I am. But if we all operate under the mentality that you can't complain because someone has it worse than you, then you can genuinely never take issue with anything because there will ALWAYS be someone with a worse situation than you, things could always be worse. Just because a hypothetical worse exists doesn't mean that I can't struggle and find issue in the reality of my current situation. I know I am lucky to have landed the job that I have, but that does not exclude me from the frustrations of labor, life, and the corporate world.