#your boss is not your friend

[woefully-undercaffeinated]

I didn't become an engineer the traditional way; rather than getting an engineering degree, doing internships, and then going straight into engineering work after college, I was forced to leave school early and study on my own while working as a cook, a customer service rep, an oilfield laborer, and an aircraft electrician. So as an engineer, I do my best to ensure that I don't segregate myself from the technicians, assemblers, cleaners, inventory stockers, and clerical staff. I try to be available to them as much as possible, help them when they're struggling, and stand up for them when another engineer or a manager is bullying them.

My client has been... demanding. They wanted the assembly plant on our campus to be operational *right away*, and so required the production company contracting with them to hire urgently and relocate workers from other states and other countries in order to work in a building that wasn't even half-finished -- it took six months for working bathrooms to be installed, the first three months were spent working in tents to prevent the dust and debris of the active construction zone from contaminating the prototypes we were working on, there was constant loud noise everywhere in the workplace, there were so few chairs that I caught people sitting on hazmat bins, and work space was limited so badly that stepping away from a workbench for a moment resulted in all of your work items being packed up and put away. There were sudden and unacceptable security policy changes enacted, such as the day we discovered that a personal search was a condition of exit from the production floor, or the month and a half we spent with no phone or chat access and no way for someone to reach us in an emergency. The production schedule was so ambitious that I and a good portion of the production staff frequently worked sixty- and seventy-hour weeks throughout the summer and fall, but despite the constant supply quality issues and conflicting directives we managed to stay on top and even get ahead of the schedule. Anyone who says "no-one wants to work anymore" needs to be dragged to my facility and shown just how much these men and women are willing to put up with for their job.

This morning, I came into my job to discover that all of the production staff in my workplace had been notified that the assembly plant is being shut down this spring. They'll spend the next few weeks wondering if they'll be required to relocate to another state or country to keep their jobs or simply let go, and then spend the rest of their holiday season dealing with the ramifications of that decision. And there's nothing I can do other than share pro-labor songs -- my NDA means I'm not even allowed to say who the client is.

But if any Dickensian spirits are looking for a Scrooge, I know of a few boardrooms that could use a visit.

[burnvictimpornography]

"good" managers

The creature we had to let into our home

tells us it hunts what will come for us in the night

Each of us too small to speak against it

so we thank it

even if we know what comes in the night

is often so much larger than what's before us

The first few nights

it postures

laying dead things at our feet

so full of pride

"It could've gotten any of you,"

the thing boasts

of the rabbit

or the pigeon

or the mangled form so much like ours

and it keeps itself fed

Some will take it at its word

"What could've happened without it?"

as if something was always happening before it

And they will call it a friend

Others will know better

Some night

not long enough after our unsummoned guardian occupied our door

the ground quivers

beneath steps like war

and all at once

the innocent wildlife that never truly threatened our home

disappear

Our creature is left so hungry

It will cry as it eats you

but it will eat you

[roguehr]

Good News! Wage theft is now a criminal offense in NYS. If your employer is not paying you on time, writing bad checks, stealing your tips, making promises about future raises (in writing) and not delivering, or otherwise paying you incorrectly- contact an employment attorney! You might even get to see your boss go to jail!

[misogynist-lesbian]

Take notes, kids. This is a life lesson.

#1 Yourself and your family comes before your work. Never get too attached to a job, and certainly never make it part of your identity.

#2 If you resign, stick to your guns and don't let them force you back into line with guilt trips or by holding anyone else hostage.

#3: If you make a counteroffer, make it ridiculous and don't budge. You've already quit. You have nothing left to lose. They do.

[klanceogies]

when ur friend is Incapacitated and that’s totally unrelated to u being his type. whatever.

redraw from @leenfiend’s comic cause i can’t stop thinking about it

[voidedjuice]

miss Hooded Crow, also known as just miss Crow or miss Gray, the very important, loyal minion of the evil god planning to destroy the world

...in her opinion, though, dumpster diving for fast food scraps, or collecting shiny trinkets are far more fun than trying to end humanity. So she's slacking hard from her job. Don't tell her boss, and certainly don't let her out of her confinement!! She's got silver forks to add to her collection

[baldursghaik]

when it's Act III and you have pissed off everybody

[fisheito]

still thinking about those promo pics where they locked the tops and bottoms in separate rooms

[leavingautumn13]

scribble comic ft. nimbasa trio

both of those coffees are for ingo. he’s not caffeinated enough for emmet’s shenanigans. also his apartment is full of spiders.

[roguehr]

The idea that any job can be taught us true, the question I'm trying to answer is how long and how much effort will it take to teach YOU.

[calyxcurl]

^ They CAN back don't, they don't WANT to!

^ They CAN back don't, they don't WANT to!

^ They CAN back don't, they don't WANT to!

It's crazy that these strikes are happening given that all the writers and actors are asking for is less than 0.3% of the revenue these studios make.

[creatively-cosmic]

submas designs

[kexing]

Book’s favorite bed in every universe:

ENCHANTÉ (2022)

A BOSS AND A BABE (2023)

ONLY FRIENDS (2023)

[roguehr]

If you're hourly, you don’t need to log anything specifically as sick time. Your punch records are enough to flag you.

“When you log sick days on the HR portal at your workplace, chances are they are instantaneously plugged into a formula called the Bradford Factor, used by HR departments to measure absenteeism and predict a worker’s ‘risk’ to the employer on the principle that short, unplanned absences are more disruptive than long-term sick leave. You might not have known you had a Bradford Factor score; your boss probably knows what yours is.”

— Eve Livingston, Make Bosses Pay: Why We Need Unions

[the-meme-monarch]

i hate episodes where someone's kindness is taken advantage of i hate it badly

[beartitled]

so after the new content any thought on the opportunist?

He was, currently is and always will be a sleazy littol bird butt 🪶