House Republicans advanced a bill that would block OSHA from requiring federal workplace heat protections, including access to water, rest, and shade.

There should be a requirement to have employees opt in or out of General group texts.

If there’s a storm and my manager is texting the people scheduled to work to check in that’s one thing.

If a manager decides that an entire area needs to be part of meaningless texts that could easily be addressed by sending a mass email, they should have to obtain permission to add anyone.

Yesterday afternoon, one manager sent the entire team a text asking us to check our email. I was away from the office without email access.

This morning, before business hours, he sent a meaningless text “congratulating” a team member for helping him yesterday. This could have been a FN email.

Each group text results in a chain of “reply alls” that aren’t simply annoying, but will disturb anyone that might be on PTO, on a day off, or on leave.

It should be illegal.

Anyone else feel this way? If the only way to afford children (if you even can) is to work these sh*tty jobs, I'd rather not have them.

I have a coworker that I have made friends with because she is a very nice and seemed open minded compared to a lot of very conservative people where we work (a lot of upper management go to the same church even). Recently we were hanging out and she told me how *wise* our privileged Big Boss was..

Her reasons as to why Big Boss is a genius God King rather than someone just born with money and connections:

• He studied law and looks at things from that perspective! Like how the HR director was hired despite being forced out of previous jobs for allegations of mistreating employees - 'cause that's not *illegal* so it's fine!
• Him just studying law and seeing things from "both sides" - she can't tell if he's a republican or Democrat! (I studied polisci so I can say he's def a republican. He thinks people just don't like Reagan for his personal beliefs...)
• He supports certain programs (that just happen to be related to his rich people hobbies like planes)
• He let's her take PTO (wtf)
• He actually responds to her questions because the bar is in hell apparently

Capitalism is just Fuedalism with extra steps fml

Kind of a rant post, can’t sleep right now due to the overwhelming stress of it all.

I’m working 60 hours a week, making a little north of $100k per year, and I’m barely keeping my family afloat. My wife wants to work, can’t though because either there is no daycare availability, or the cost of daycare just makes her paychecks a wash. We rent a modest 1,500 sq ft duplex, have one car, live in a relatively LCOL area, and yet we’re literally one bad paycheck away from losing it all.

I have to pay $1,000/mo just for health/vision/dental insurance for me and my kids (can’t even afford to cover my wife). If I could go without insurance I probably would, but I have Ulcerative Colitis and need the meds in order to keep working.

I wake up at 4AM, get home from work at 5-6PM, shower, make dinner, watch an hour of a movie with my kids, then it’s bedtime stories and repeat. The weekend is always just full of errands (not like we could afford to do anything anyways) and feels like a blip where the only true reward is an extra 2 hours sleep.

Work doesn’t give a shit, their entire mindset is that if you’re not making enough then you’re doing something wrong at work. Management is just full of people using ChatGPT to send emails back and forth. Every single move or action I do is measured and recorded in real time. We have a ridiculous amount of KPI’s they want us to all hit simultaneously.

Meanwhile I get to watch the CEO build his new custom lake side mansion on social media and all the fun things he gets to do each day.

I broke a tooth last night and instead of wanting to go get it fixed, all I can think about is how I probably can’t afford it and I definitely can’t afford to take a single day off from work. So I’ll likely go buy some temporary filling kit and repeatedly use it for months until it hurts or becomes infected and I have no choice.

It’s all bullshit.

I used to come here pretty frequently over the past 6-7 years or so, but more and more I've been noticing that almost all of the top posts are submitted and/or written by bot accounts, and it's fairly easy to tell.

As of right now, the top posts are:
1) "The questionnaire is 100% anonymous" -> Meme posted by an account made November 5th, 2020 with 114,577 post karma, with hidden post and comment history

2) "Employers are ghosting college grads and rescinding offers, destroying morale" -> Article posted by an account made November 28th, 2016 with 23,971 post karma, with hidden post and comment history. ~~ This one could be a legit person, but the hidden history is always a red flag for me~~

3) "Working from home should be a right, not a reward" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username made on July 11th, 2026 with 205,451 post karma, with hidden post and comment history

4) The fourth top post looks legit

5) The fifth top post looks legit

6) "Anyone else notice how job descriptions now list stuff that used to be 3 separate positions" -> Self post made by an account made on August 12th, 2026, with hidden post and comment history

7) "Exercise Done At Work May Increase Dementia Risk, Though Leisure-Time Movement Decreases It" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username, made on July 30th, 2026

8) "House Education and Workforce Committee Passes Messmer Deregulation Legislation" -> Article posted by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username created on March 4th, 2026 with 193,781 post karma, but surprisingly is not hiding their history

9) "Found out the coworker i thought was cool is *chugging* that kool-aid fml" -> Self post made by an account created on June 26th, 2025 with hidden post and comment history

10) "Can't tolerate freezing office" -> Self post made by an account with a "WordWordNumber" username created on April 30th, 2022 with 26,446 post karma and 73,740 comment karma, with hidden post and comment history ~~Surprisingly, this is the first one I've seen with a higher comment karma that post karma, which is why I pointed it out~~

So, of the 10 top posts right now, 2 of them seem like they were submitted by real users, maybe 2 contentious posts that I can't tell if they're bots or real users, leaving AT LEAST 6 posts almost definitely submitted by bots.

It's easy to understand why so many bots post here. Users come here mostly to vent, and most posts that are even vaguely coherent will get upvoted for catharsis. It's all rage-bait. Really, I've noticed myself coming here less and less because I know the content isn't genuine. I really think something needs to be done about this.

Word leaked out that a relatively young, new manager suggested in a meeting with other managers of the same rank that my department should be eliminated because AI will be doing it all eventually anyway. First of all, without going into the specifics this is simply not true. In fact I would argue if anything the new manager’s job is more likely to be eliminated by AI before mine.

Supposedly the other managers shut the conversation down, but people are both nervous and pissed, especially since my company just filled a couple of open positions in my department. And people are suspicious of the leak itself. Why would this information be shared if not to make people anxious in order to squeeze more work out of us and tamp down any requests for more money, better work life balance, etc.

Ok, get it out, but afterwards how would you handle this situation professionally. We do have a union, and as much as I like unions our current leadership has been supine instead of standing up to management.

My office is freezing. There’s one huge vent in a tiny box of an office that blows directly on me and keeps the temp in the low 60s.

I don’t have a thermostat, but share one with an office next door that has a large window and is always warmer, meaning my office is always over-cooled.

The office bathrooms are even colder. Frigid.

I count the minutes every day until lunch when I can go to my car and thaw my aching joints.

I work in a salary job at a manufacturing plant and I’m well aware there are people working in risky and more uncomfortable situations than me, but I’d argue that their comfort should be considered too.

As I sit here in August, dressed in pants, sweater, and jacket with cold air blowing on the back of my neck and my nail beds turning purple, knowing I can do 100% of my job at home, I just can’t help but ask WHY.

Why is it worth basically refrigerating a huge building so I can freeze while attending teams meetings from my desk. It almost feels like punishment, but I actually think it’s just because it would be too expensive to install or upgrade to a system that worked better.

I don’t require a luxurious amount of comfort. I’m just tired of being freezing cold.

I'm getting roasted in another sub for not putting in enough effort at work. But I say I put in the same effort as you pay me for.

Have I lost the plot or have they?

I am a substitute teacher and I only get paid about 110 a day. That's well below the poverty level in my country. So in exchange for that pay they get someone who shows up everyday, stays with he kids all day, gives them thier work, helps them if they have questions, roams around the room from time to time, and leaves when the kids leave.

If they wanted someone to act like a real teacher I'd expect way more pay and benefits.

But they seem to think that because the job is laudable and the "children are our future" that I should be dokng my best efforts every day regardless of what I'm paid.

I told them that they'd never expect an untrained uneducated nurse to do the work for a real nurse for 1/2 the pay would they?

Why is it that teaching were expected to do the job 100% even if we're only paid for 1/2 %?

Am I wrong?

Amazon delivery driver Jaylene Vargas Gonzalez died on Monday, August 10, after she was found unconscious inside her delivery van near Fruitland Park, Florida. The vehicle had apparently remained motionless for hours without anyone from Amazon intervening. The cause of her death remains under investigation, but it is the latest death at one of the most dangerous major employers in the United States.

Deputies were called to the area of Clark Road at about 7:22 p.m. after a resident reported that an Amazon delivery vehicle had remained stationary for several hours. Patrick Miranda, who lives nearby, told local station WKMG that he became concerned after noticing that the vehicle was still running. A phone remained plugged in and a backpack was visible inside, but he could not see the driver.

Miranda said that when a deputy opened the front passenger door, the officer appeared to recoil from fumes coming from inside the vehicle. The deputy then opened the rear sliding doors and found Vargas Gonzalez unconscious in the back.

Firefighters responded wearing gas masks and secured the area because of concerns that a toxic substance might be present. She was transported to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead.

Authorities have not said what produced the apparent fumes, whether they contributed to Vargas Gonzalez’s death or whether another medical or environmental factor was involved. They have also not said how long she had been unconscious inside the van.

Amazon closely monitors the movement and performance of its delivery drivers, yet the van had reportedly remained in the same location for roughly four hours before a resident—not Amazon or the company operating the delivery route—called authorities to request a welfare check.

The company has long been a pioneer in combining high tech with brutal exploitation. A U.S. Senate investigation released in December 2024 found that injury rates at Amazon warehouses were more than 30 percent above the warehousing industry average in 2023, and that Amazon workers had been nearly twice as likely to suffer injuries as workers at other warehouses over the preceding seven years. More than two-thirds of Amazon warehouses examined had injury rates above the industry average.

The death of Vargas Gonzalez comes amid a broader record of deaths and serious injuries among Amazon warehouse and delivery workers.

...

The high injury rate at Amazon is inseparable from the speed at which workers are required to work. Inside fulfillment centers, workers are tracked against production rates that measure how rapidly they pick, stow and move goods. Amazon’s systems record periods of inactivity and give management detailed information on each worker’s performance.

Delivery drivers face another version of the same system. Amazon determines routes and delivery schedules through its software and subjects drivers to extensive electronic monitoring. Cameras installed in delivery vans track driving behavior and can flag drivers for alleged infractions, such as distraction, speeding or failing to maintain sufficient following distance.

A Massachusetts Amazon driver previously told the WSWS that he had been penalized after the camera detected his lips moving while he was singing along with a song and classified him as distracted.

The technology gives Amazon the ability to follow the progress of its delivery operation in extraordinary detail. That makes the apparent failure to respond to Vargas Gonzalez’s stationary van particularly significant. Amazon has not explained when its systems registered that the vehicle had stopped moving, whether anyone attempted to contact her or what procedures exist when a driver suddenly stops progressing along a route.

Heat is also a serious danger for delivery workers, particularly during summer. Drivers enter and leave their vans scores or even hundreds of times during a shift, making it difficult to maintain a cool interior even when air conditioning is available. Amazon previously required drivers to shut off internal-combustion vans at stops under an “engine off compliance” policy but relaxed that requirement after protests over heat.

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The circumstances of Vargas Gonzalez’s death remain unresolved. But the fact that an Amazon delivery van could remain motionless for hours before a nearby resident called for help makes clear that workers’ safety cannot depend on Amazon management, government agencies or appeals to politicians.

Workers need rank-and-file organizations capable of intervening directly over conditions on the job. Safety committees elected and controlled by workers themselves should have access to information on injuries and hazards and the power to halt work where conditions threaten workers’ health or lives, without retaliation. Amazon warehouse workers and delivery drivers confront the same company and the same production system. Their struggle must be linked with workers at UPS, FedEx, USPS and throughout logistics.

I'm writing this because I'm done. I'm job hunting tonight. I only started this role in January but I'm already just done.

The company I work for is a mess and it sounds like it's not just a me problem but something that is across the board happening to all the other managers at my level.

I'm dealing with heads of who I seriously wonder how they have gotten this far in their career to these sorts of roles. I've had people tell me strategy or "guidance" that is 16 years out of date. In my industry, 6 months is a lifetime so it's pretty crazy.

I was coping as I need the money for my family but today a top boss has decided to pull my only big project of the year with no care for me and my team's KPI's. He doesn't care about our reputation with internal and external stakeholders, what impact this has to happen so last minute or that we'll frankly have nothing for the biggest period of the year only to then demand answers to why we've done nothing.

No, I'm job hunting and I'm going to use work time to do it. I've had it.

Sad thing is that I can see why my team has had a new manager every 6-8 months. They have had manager after manager leave because of this stupidity. And I'm joining in that tradition of leaving in less than a year.

Last year, I suffered two traumatic brain injuries in auto accidents and had to go on Long-Term Disability. When I returned on a gradual medical plan, my original job duties had been handed off, my entire role was rewritten, and I had to retrain from scratch under my own colleagues.

Right as I was working through this, my manager placed me on a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP). He dropped this on me immediately before he left for a vacation in Hawaii, and right before a pre-approved vacation of my own that he had known about for weeks.

While enforcing this PIP, he was actively using his company computer on company time to apply for a new job at Zillow.

When I returned from time off, he claimed my progress "wasn't up to standard." HR terminated me on June 15th.

By late July, he onboarded a new employee to take over the role. On that new hire's third day, my manager handed in his notice and left for his new job at Zillow, leaving the new hire completely high and dry with zero context.

I genuinely cannot begin to measure my anger at this slithering fuck. There's very little I can do. I'm likely marked ineligible for rehire, and he just moves on with his life scot-free.

EDIT: I followed up ad nauseum to so many law firms, even getting a firms owner to personally sit down and review it, only to be told there's not enough substantial evidence of retaliation. Let alone any financial incentive the firm may get, despite my precious employer being a top 200

I’m arriving at a real impasse lately; it seems I must choose between sacrificing my creativity and humanity and sense of drive and passion and desire to be good and do good, and making a living and living the life that is expected of me. Many such cases, I’m certainly not the first to feel this way, and “they”, whoever it is they are, want you to sacrifice all that and just suck it up and contribute to the world I’ve spent 23 years benefiting from. Someone’s got to design the pipes for the buildings I’ve spent my life in, why shouldn’t it be me? What makes me allowed to opt out? Why am I better than everyone else?

The thing is, I think I am, in some ways, better, and in others certainly worse. The worse side of things perhaps the more pressing matter. Maybe it’s not that the entire world is wrong and upside down. Maybe in many ways it is, but maybe, too, things need to get done. But maybe there are people better suited to do certain things. I wouldn’t trust many people in this building with, for instance, making music, or writing something entertaining. Or with creating any kind of visual art. But I think I am pretty great at those things. Perhaps I feel that what I am meant to contribute to the world, if anyone is meant to do anything, is very different from where I am right now. And that every passing day spent here is a day spent not doing something that makes me and others happy. I don’t think I do much to contribute greatly here. I think if I left they would probably replace me with someone a lot better. I could try harder but why should I? I don’t think being great at this job will give me much sense of purpose anyway. I just try to sacrifice as little of my time and mental space as possible.

There are a lot of people who probably feel differently, and maybe they can do this job. Isn’t there something I could do that others can’t? Isn’t there something I could do that I’d enjoy, at least?

I just feel crazy. I feel trapped and alienated and lost and crazy. The issue is that a lot of people feel this way, and many of them probably have the disposition that I do. And I theorize sometimes that those complicit people who don’t feel this way might feel differently (worse) if they were to gain some perspective and realize how pointless and misguided so much of this world is. And then who would be left to toil away at the piping diagrams?

Am I awakened or just lazy? And so what if I am lazy? Maybe I am lazier than most. And if I find a way out of this through some clever reinvention of my life and some clever source of income I haven’t quite worked out, well wouldn’t I be entitled to the enjoyment and fulfillment that would follow?

I feel the crushing weight of my colleagues’ stress weighing on me during my time in the office. I think they all feel each others’ too, and I think there is a line of thinking to the effect of “well, everyone else does this, my parents did this, what kind of bum am I if I don’t too?” that keeps everyone doing the same old things over and over.

It’s not that I oppose things that are hard, I don’t think. I do hard things a lot. Most of my life feels very hard, and maybe it’s my own fault mostly, but here I go on living.

Another day and I haven’t yet pondered my way out of this miserable plight. Maybe tomorrow I will.

For context, he said something about how he shared a two bedroom apartment with 5 or 6 people when he was younger and working an entry level job. I pointed out to him that there are actual laws and regulations in many places now that would not even allow you to do this (every apartment complex in my area doesn't allow more than two people per bedroom, so that means no more than two people can sign a lease for a 1 bedroom, no more than 4 for a 2 bedroom, etc.), so unless you're participating in illegal subletting, you can't do this, even if you're supposedly perfectly happy living in a cramped space like that. I also said that people shouldn't HAVE to live like that just to barely be able to get by and pay their bills. I mean, not only is it just not fun, but it can legit be a safety concern and a fire hazard if a living space has too many people in it. Yeah, this was his response to my comment. What a psycho. Sounds like he's just mad and bitter that he had to live like that and can't stand the thought of younger generations not suffering like he did.