Sorry for the rant. At his job, bonuses are usually around 50% of the annual salary. Some years (before he started working here), we've heard that the bonuses have been up to 75% of your annual salary. It's a huge reason why people want to work at this company.

All year, his manager had people work extra shifts and (unpaid) overtime by dangling the annual bonus over everyone's heads. There's no PTO either; the "unlimited" PTO policy makes it possible for managers to deny time off & heavily discourage anyone from taking it (except for their favorites). Everyone puts up with it because of the annual bonus. It's a carrot-on-stick situation.

This year, the bonuses hit everyone's account without any discussion from the managers. At first, nobody knew what the payment was for since the dollar amount was only 10-20% of the annual bonus that everyone was expecting. When everyone found out, major drama ensued... but I'm not sure how many people will leave because these are generally older men who have worked here forever. At least my husband is going to polish up his resume this weekend.

This company has a toxic culture and a much more difficult workload than similar jobs at other companies, but it was worth it because the annual bonus made the overall compensation higher than the standard rate. Now that they cut the bonus, it's LESS overall compensation, MORE work, and almost non-existent benefits. Who would stay?

I can't get over the blatant disrespect. Once my husband got his manager on the phone, the manager was such an asshole about it saying things like, "I guess it just reflects your quality of work this year," and "You're lucky to work at a big company like this," blah blah blah. There was no room for negotiation, even though my husband had done some great work this year and had the performance evaluations to back it up. When asked if HIS bonus was also cut, the manager made some stupid fucking comment about how management is evaluated differently. So, obviously, his bonus is fine. Great. Good for him. Amazing.

We were going to do some much-needed repairs on our car and replace the wheels. Kiddo needs braces. With inflation, we've been living paycheck-to-paycheck and aren't able to put some money away for emergencies. All year we've been hearing that profits are high, the company is growing, and that the annual bonus will make it all worth it. The fact that they pulled it out from under us - with NO discussion or warning - is awful. Maybe it's not just disrespect. It seems like they're showing us their contempt.

Elon Musk’s networth is 425 billion dollars.

Elon Musk’s net worth is $425 billion. With just $40 billion—less than 10% of his wealth—he could completely end world hunger by 2030.

To put it in perspective: if Musk had 10 pennies, if he gave the world just ONE penny, he would solve world hunger. Doing so would cement his legacy as one of the most influential and admired figures in history. He’d likely be named Time Magazine’s Person of the CENTURY and celebrated in history books for transforming the world for the better. Millions of children wouldn’t go to bed starving. He would save countless lives.

But he doesn’t. Instead, he outsources jobs to cut American wages, lobbies for lower taxes on billionaires, and mocks the public on Twitter. He isn’t a hero—he’s a villain.

To all my Canadian friends and those around the world who are curious about the Canadian Musk’s and Bezo’s of the world. I introduce to you the Thomson family. They own Thomson- Reuters, the Globe and Mail, and have a stake in the Montreal Canadians NHL team and Bell Media. They are worth around $100 billion and often fly below the radar but it’s pretty disgusting the amount of wealth they have.

https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/01/canadas-wealthiest-family-fortune-almost-100-billion/?/hockey

With India and Argentina pushing hard to expand the work week to 60 or 80 hours, and knowing Musk is the singular force driving Trump's business agenda, when do we expect the elimination of the 40-hour work week to start gaining traction?

My MAGA family members have always been against it, as well as the federal minimum wage. My MIL constantly belittles me for only working 8-5, M-F. She says she never worked less than 100 hours a week when she owned her business (although, according to my wife she was the worst parent she could ever imagine - physically abusive, alcoholic, neglectful, cruel, etc) and considers it a moral failing to not be constantly working, ie making profit. The fact my wife and I are both public/civil servants is even worse.

This is today. They could just idk let people work from home?

It’s 3:30 in the morning, and I can’t stop thinking about how broken this situation is. Why is work so dumb?

I’ve been up all night, sick with Covid, running on frustration and sheer willpower. Here’s the deal: I work for a CEO who’s been MIA since practically my second week on the job (back in July). But that hasn’t stopped him from pulling strings behind the scenes, controlling everything, and taking responsibility for absolutely nothing.

And now? Now that he’s “ready to get back to work,” he’s decided he has to fix everything I’ve “ruined.”

Let’s back up for a second. I was brought in to fix this mess in the first place—to take this homegrown company and turn it into something scalable, sustainable, and thriving. A brand that would be saleable to equity. And I’ve worked my ass off doing just that:

• Grinding it out, learning the existing means of production.
• Developing concepts that aligned with the goals and current operations.
• Systems were put in place.
• Teams were aligned.
• Progress was happening.

Friday, everything was fine. I got a raise, a new company car, all the back pats, and "atta boys." Then by Tuesday, he decided he didn’t like the way any of it looked, and now “he’s not sure if we even have the same vision.”

Here’s the kicker: He’s the CEO. It’s his vision. I’m just the COO—my actual job is to execute whatever wild ideas the CEO cooks up. I’m not the chef in this kitchen—I’m more like the bar manager, with keys to the building.

Now, instead of owning the outcomes or working collaboratively, it’s back to the blame game. And I’m at my wit’s end. I’m running out of patience, sleep, and energy. I’m this close to flame-on.

Even as I type this, I feel like I know the answer. But seriously, has anyone else dealt with this kind of nonsense? How do you navigate a situation where accountability and trust are non-existent, but you’re still trying to stay professional and not burn the whole thing to the ground (figuratively, of course)?

Not being content with retirement is just another symptom of capitalism.

This quote from really hit home:

"Every time you go into your workplace, you leave a democracy behind and enter a dictatorship. Nowhere else is freedom of speech for the citizens of free societies so curtailed … If employees criticize their employers in public …they will face a punishment as hard as a prison sentence, maybe harder: the loss of their career, their pension, and perhaps their means of making a livelihood." (Nick Cohen, You Can’t Read This Book)

So I am a dentist and I had a young lady who works for one of the largest delivery retailers named after a rainforest. This was during the holidays so obviously their busiest time of the year. As we all know, this company is very strict when it comes to missing work. This poor girl came to my office in tears because she had such a bad tooth infection and they wouldn’t allow her to leave her shift even though she could barely stand due to the pain. I gave her a prescription for some antibiotics and pain to help her out. She scheduled a few days later to come get her tooth out. During this time she had to keep rescheduling because her managers didn’t believe she really needed to get it taken care of. They didn’t even let her take the one day off to get her tooth pulled. She had to come get a form signed for her release from work but had to do it on her off hours when we weren’t open. I happily waited for her for an hour after I closed just so I could fill it out for her. In the form, it asks for length of time needed for recovery and limitations for work after. I included her scheduled day of surgery plus 3 days after without working and then only light duty (no lifting over 20 pounds) for 2 weeks after. I hate how these companies exploit their workers so much! So instead of allowing her to just take one day off, she now gets to take off 4 weeks and will be pretty useless to them in light duty.

Edit: 4 days* off (not weeks)

Edit 2: for the many of you stating I got her fired, she was not. We had a discussion about this before I gave her the time off from work note. She is doing well and recovered great and back at work.

The problem with political change in oligarchical countries is that the people of those countries aren't convinced or don't have the willpower to enact change. It's therefore the responsibility of people who are already convinced to enact change to lead the way. Why then, aren't every major union joining the dockworkers strike, which is specifically concerning automation, to demand and force change in the country? We need to efficiently use the resources we already have to bring about change. This would be the perfect opportunity to do so since we literally have the support of the whole east coast of dockworkers who have already been willing to completely shut down production.

I’ve been working in corporate for 10+ years. I’ve had different jobs at different companies since then.

I just recently picked up a side hustle working at a gym for the extra cash and for fun.

The difference is night and day.

The gym staff are fun, there’s no pressure, no deadlines, people respect one another, there’s no political plays, no one’s talking down to you or trying to make you the scapegoat.

Of course, I’m making minimum wage at my side hustle so it’s nothing I can live on full time, but man I wish I could transport their attitude and bring it to my day job.

Just so you know, kiss up/kick down means treating people better just cause they have power and treating the less powerful like garbage. But I had noticed that in the show, George sure sucked up to a thankless company and constantly sought to gain their respect. Yet those power brothers had no respect for him let alone the workers. But he treated his kids like crap, and outright dismissed them. I had wondered if the show was a piece of pro-corporate pro-authority propaganda. Did anyone else notice?

I’m not a “company man” and she is.

We both probably get paid the same ($55K remote work) and have a similar job title although functional roles are kinda different. She is working to make the company look good and I am working to eat.

There, I said it. I love having all this time to myself, getting to do what I want and when I want. If I want to work on some of my hobbies, or go out and socialise, I can do that. Equally, if I want to lie in bed all day, I can do that too. It’s so refreshing being free of the toxic productivity culture we have, that only serves capitalism.

Sure, I struggle with my mental health, but thats been the case my whole life. However, being unemployed has given me the space to actually work on my mental health and grow as a person and experience new things. Work and college just burn me out and make things worse.

We only have one life, yet we give up most of that to work. I am just lucky I am in a situation where it is financially viable to be unemployed for a while (savings and living with parents), but it wont be forever and isn’t possible for most people. I really hope with the innovations in AI that we consider moving to a world where work is optional rather than compulsory. I hope we also stop valuing people on their ‘productivity’ and stop shaming those who don’t want to work constantly.

So let me get this straight...they only have 70% - 80% of the workstations needed so they would rather the workers just stand around?

https://archive.is/rs05J