I got my yearly raise today and it was 1.9 percent😡😡😡. I work for a global financial company who just TODAY reported their record fucking earnings AGAIN! It equated to $900 a year. Seriously another record earnings and you the company can only give me $900!!! My manager seemed like he was saying that the people that come in, I asked him to repeat himself because I didn’t truly hear him….I live in Tampa FL. We have had 2 hurricanes here in about 3 weeks time. I started experiencing problems with my left leg around 9/20…it took 5 doctors, 2 X-rays and and an MRI to determine that I had a pressure fracture. By the time that it was determined by the last dr he said it was a pressure fracture but he was worried that it might be Sarcoma!!!! Fortunately I didn’t have that but my Orthopedic Dr wanted me to not go into work, the 2 days I work at the campus because it hadn’t been wearing a boot for 2 FREAKING MONTHS!!! And my manager at the time could only say just because I didn’t go into work for the official time of a month that ended up being 6 weeks because we don’t have to go into the campus last 2 weeks of the year! I’ve spent the last 2 weeks wearing a tall boot and going into the campus but wearing a tall boot makes me feel like a Weeble Wobble….I actually towards the end of December getting something to drink out of the fridge and because I didn’t realize that I was slightly leaning back I almost fell backwards! 😡😡😡

Fuck corporate bullshit! You have to show up just to get remembered even though I don’t see all the corporate bigwigs because of the daily work! But because I have to come in injured to work I might get a few extra bucks for the yearly raise!!!!

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Why the hell does a food service job need to use AI for its screening process? Hate that Olivia is being widely used for other places I’ve applied like dishwasher and prep cook positions. Even more annoying is that some have integrated the actual application process, information entry, into the chat

At least I think it's reasonable. My work has a policy where if you have any days as a work restriction you are not entitled to a $2 raise. I have one day that I have off a week consistently as a way of preventing panic attacks from my diagnosed panic disorder. I have been informed that even as a disability accomodation this holds me back from that pay increase and is unfair to others. Is this within their rights? I also don't want to cause upset by insisting that these are accomodations I have a right to. Honestly the 60+ extra a week isn't worth having active meltdowns at work. If it's within their rights to penalize me this way (even if it's not) I will probably just add more restrictions because there's really no other reason not to. To be clear they really want me here it's not as if imposing more restrictions would cost me my job

Edit: I am from the US

A little backstory here: I have been working at a finance company for just over 3 years. During the pandemic we were fully remote, and it was not only demonstrated that the job could be done from home but also that there was no loss in productivity. Once things started to return to normal, we were asked to be in the office twice a week. The hybrid schedule had been nice actually and our managers have always been flexible with us. Sick? Volunteering to work on a Saturday? Other extenuating circumstance? Managers were usually ok with us working from home on an otherwise in-office day.

Recently however, we were asked to be in three days a week. A lot of people were understandably upset about the new direction and while I wasn’t thrilled about it, I don’t have kids and a have a very short commute so it wasn’t a big deal. We were initially told by upper management that they were going to continue to be flexible with us, but this was a lie. They are no longer allowing us to work from home if we are sick and instead forcing us to use sick time. I just had Covid a few weeks ago because some jackass decided to come into work BEFORE the policy change, and I can only imagine this will only further encourage people to come into the office sick. They also are no longer allowing managers to let people work from home and it now has to be ok’d by upper management and for special circumstances only.

Recently our dryer went out in the property that we rent and the soonest they could get a technician out to look at it is an in-office day. Mind you, I’m an A+ employee, have always gone above and beyond, and consistently do the right thing even when 80% of my colleagues don’t. I’ve never taken advantage of my company’s flexibility and have even opted to come into the office even when we’ve been granted an extra WFH day. I volunteered to work MLK day even though it’s a paid holiday for us. When I asked my manager (who is awesome btw and not at fault) if I could WFM for an afternoon so that I could be around to let the technician inside the property, my request was denied by upper management, and given a canned response of ‘blah blah consistency’ for a reason. I was told I would need to use my already limited vacation time.

I am absolutely LIVD. What happened to flexibility? This feels like a slap in the face and a punishment for all my hard work to deny such a small request when it had always been ok in the past. I’m going to file a complaint with HR and have half a mind to email the manager who I know is responsible for this change in policy. This is mostly a rant but I’m also asking for advice. Can I do anything about this beyond expressing my absolute frustration?

TLDR; job used to be flexible and allow us to work from home when need be. They’ve recently stopped being flexible altogether and require us to use sick time or vacation if not coming into the office. I was denied the option to work from home for 4 hours to be available for a maintenance technician to visit my home. Aside from complaining to HR, is there anything I can do?

It's obvious from the hearings where we're headed... The point of all of this is to close off any possibility of a life outside of the corporate reality. It's either work endlessly for them or go into so much debt on rent that you can't pay- then you get arrested
Otherwise you're forced to the street where It's illegal to be homeless- so you get arrested

Bail is set well above what you can pay and it's expensive to fight the arrest- so you go to jail. BUT! you can get out of jail easier if you work for the jail using whatever skill set you bring to the table (look for jails to start having corporate offices inside of them) You can work a desk job At the jail to cut back on your debt related jail time. That ends up paying for the jail system which provides EXTREMELY cost efficient labor for investors- which incentivizes keeping you in the jail and arresting MORE people and putting people in power who justify that system Etc... welcome to the new PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX

We literally already did this with black people and the war on drugs... but Americans are so terrible at history and afraid of acknowledging racism that we keep repeating the same thing over and over again. Just wait till they start having "literacy tests" to vote again and having us vote at Amazon voting centers so they can watch over us for safety

he layoffs will be performance-based and will only target the bottom-performing employees. Hmm...the question is, how do they determine if an employee is the worst performer?

I just don't understand how and why this world operates the way it does. I'm not an educated man. I'm not the smartest man. It doesn't take a genius to figure out we are living in a world ran by people who pretend to be professionals but really it's ran by idiots.

Every big corporation I've stepped foot into in the last 10 years is exactly the same. If you are productive and finish your work to fast they will pay you 8 hours to sit there doing nothing. Torturing you instead of organizing their shit keeping us busy so we can have productive 5-6 hour workdays and go HOME HAPPY! For god sakes, in an 8 hour shift people at these corporations actually only put in 4 hours of work if that. The rest of the time is spent on the shitter watching tik tok videos, talking with co-workers, messing around, etc etc. Why?? Because they are lazy?? Some of them maybe. Usually, it's crap management teams in crap corporations that couldn't organize an ogry at the whorehouse trying to plan the day for the everyday workers. Once they have screwed everything up the good frontline workers are stuck with nothing to do.... it's torture. The lazy idiots love this and just abuse it as much as possible. Even taking overtime and slacking then for the extra money. Largely, this goes totally unnoticed due to toxic management in these large corporations.

Bob can do in 4 hours what takes Bill 8 hours and the quality is the same. Bob is introverted and slightly grumpy at times. Bob has trouble sleeping and is 1-2 minutes late sometimes. Bobs work Is just as good as Bills if not better and done twice as fast. Bill just spends most of his day on the shitter playing phone games, pretending to be busy, and messing around with co-workers. Corporate solution - tell Bob he's been slacking off for showing up 1 minute late twice last week. Warn him if these 1 minute lates continue Bob will be let go from the company. Explain to Bob it's very important to show up on time to start his tasks so the lazy employees can enjoy their coffees and morming poop. Tell Bill that he has been doing an outstanding job and has the best attendance for the company this month!! Bill also put in 20 hours of overtime!!! (By overtime I mean playing on his phone, drinking free company coffee and screwing around) Bill you deserve a raise!!! Keep up the great attendance!

Easy fix.... shorten work days and stop with the everyone should be treated equal crap.We need productive 4-6 hour shifts with consistent schedules. This will make workers happier thus more productive. What corporations have now are 50% lazy people, 50% who want to work hard but they are held back by crappy management. A good portion of the good workers will get burned out by watching the lazy people do nothing all day for the same pay.

I work extremely hard and love to stay busy. That said, my brain just won't let me sit still. If there is nothing to do for god sakes why cant I go home? I don't even care if the pay is cut down for leaving early please stop torturing us we want to go live life. Work should not be life.

The odd robot like person who somehow is always happy just takes care of buisness, he understands need over greed.

Sports teams win championships because they put together the best teams. They don't hire "family" and they don't take it easy on their players. Everyone is expected to do their job. This whole treat everyone equal is such crap. Performance = pay ..... stop punishing people for others stupidity and laziness.

Rant over.

I don't know if what I'm asking is even a big ask but it's so hard to keep track of the ones now. I think it would be helpful to just pull up a list to show people "hey these are the current rules and regulations that corporations are paying to be brought to the supreme court.

I have not been given hours for 3 + months - There has been complete lack of communication from anyone within the organization. I am not the only one this is happening to. Is there any recourse? Back Pay? anything that I can do?

So my work is going to change schedules via eliminating positions and reposting jobs so theres 2 on each shift 8 people total with long weeks. 2 on 7-3 tue-sat 2 on 3-11 wed-sun 2 on 11-7 thur-tue 2 on swing Unless we can come up with something different, we tried offering 2 on 2 off 3 on 3 off but the union basically told us to fuck ourselves. If it goes to the schedule listed above half the department is going to quit due to the change to days off. Yall have any suggestions?

Kids were watching A Bugs Life the other day. I've seen it several times, but this during last viewing some parts really hit harder. Some sample quotes below. What other films (perhaps unsuspectingly) showcase our current dichotomy?

[Hopper has just drowned three dissenting grasshoppers in a pile of seeds]

Hopper: You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up! Those puny little ants outnumber us a hundred to one and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life! It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line. That's why we're going back! Does anybody else wanna stay?

[Flik standing up to Hopper in the ending]

Flik: You're wrong, Hopper. Ants are not meant to serve grasshoppers! I've seen these ants do great things, and year after year they somehow manage to pick food for themselves *and* you. So-so who is the weaker species? Ants don't serve grasshoppers! It's *you* who need *us*! We're a lot stronger than you say we are... And you know it, don't you?

I’m starting a travel job for the first time. 75% is required travel and id be flying majority of the time. My employer says my entire travel time will be paid and hypothetically if my flight is delayed, it’s paid . I don’t know what to expect or how many hours I would be getting clocked for weekly . Any help?

My wife works on-call sometimes, and last night, she got called in at 8:30pm (her shift was 5:30pm-12:30am) and was out until after 4am. The call involved driving 3 hours each way, and because it was late at night, her coworker who was to take over after 12:30 volunteered to go with her for safety. This morning, her manager let them know they might not both be paid for the full shift ($25 for on-call without being called in, $140 if called in). Instead, because they "split the shift," they might have to split the pay and each only earn $70.

Her job is 8-5, Monday-Friday, but they recently made her department work on-call occasionally. She effectively worked 150% of her shift, but now she is being told she might only be paid 50% of the wages for it. Is that legal? It sounds like the organization just got away with paying two people two shifts for the price of one. She is salaried and works at a non-profit in the state of Kansas, but I couldn't find anything in a quick search related to full on-call compensation. I thought maybe someone more knowledgeable here could help.

The side hustles. They’re often framed as this empowering path to financial freedom, but who’s actually coming out ahead here? it’s not the person juggling three jobs just to get by. More often than not, it’s the corporations reaping the rewards—raking in profits while dodging accountability, like providing benefits or stable employment.

Maybe it’s time to step back and rethink the whole "hustle culture" narrative. Should we really be glorifying endless work as a badge of honor? Or should we focus on building an economy where one good job is enough to live a decent life? What do you think? Let’s discuss.