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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 15:08:02 2019 No.14438025 [Reply] [Original]

>Got my first job, working in a warehouse owned by a major retailer through a recruitment firm
>One 30 minute, unpaid break per 8 hour shift
>Facility runs 24 hours a day, you get a semi-random assortment of 8 hour shifts in the morning, evening or night
>Overtime is mandatory, weekend work is mandatory
>The company has the right to stop and search you and your belongings/car at any time
>The company is not obligated to give you a reference or provide more than 8 hours per week of paid work
>The company has the right to inform you within 24 hours that you will be working 2-4 hours extra before or after your next shift
>Expected to work at any facility in a 35 mile radius with 24 hours notice
>No phones on the warehouse floor, metal detectors on entry and exit and bio-metric scanners track your work hours
>Can be terminated at any time for any reason with 1 weeks notice

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 15:09:15 2019 No.14438035 Jesus Christ

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 15:09:27 2019 No.14438036 >>14438025 Amazon?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 15:18:05 2019 No.14438074 >>14438025 I'd be alright with that for a few years if the pay was at least $20/hour, preferably $25 or more. I don't know how people do it for a measly wage.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:23:35 2019 No.14439351 File: 73 KB, 196x319, fdas.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14438025 Why don't you quit? I hear its pretty easy to get an apprenticeship as an electrician these days

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:29:09 2019 No.14439378 >>14438025 >One 30 minute, unpaid break per 8 hour shift what state are you in, this is illegal in my state also this >>14438074 If you aren't showing up stoned and making at least $25 an hour you would be better off being a ski bum or something

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:31:11 2019 No.14439389 how much are you getting paid

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:33:06 2019 No.14439397 >>14439378 fug I misremembered my wage slave life, that is the case in my state too

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:38:04 2019 No.14439423 That is completely ridiculous. I would quit on principle.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:41:05 2019 No.14439437

>>14438025
If American:
>One 30 minute, unpaid break per 8 hour shift
They're legally obliged to give you 10min breaks every 2 hours, and a 30 every 4

>Overtime is mandatory, weekend work is mandatory
Nothing out of the ordinary

>The company has the right to stop and search you and your belongings/car at any time
False.

>The company has the right to inform you within 24 hours that you will be working 2-4 hours extra before or after your next shift
Sucks, but it sounds like any other temp job. You're on call basically.

>Expected to work at any facility in a 35 mile radius with 24 hours notice
ok that sucks, look for something else

>Can be terminated at any time for any reason with 1 weeks notice
no shit this isn't France

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:41:20 2019 No.14439439 >>14439389 Probably Amazon base rate of $15/hr

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:46:23 2019 No.14439462

This is what I don't understand.
First, don't work there then. If you're a total unemployable dimwit it's your own fault, and clearly don't deserve a better job. Furthermore, an eight hour shift is nothing. I work ten hours break free on the regular, and it doesn't even phase me. Then again, I am an adult male, and wasn't molly coddled directly from my mother's womb, and don't expect to have everything handed it me.
Nut up, Anon, and produce thine testes

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:48:04 2019 No.14439468 >>14439462 >Then again, I am an adult male, and wasn't molly coddled directly from my mother's womb, and don't expect to have everything handed it me. I had no control over this

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:52:55 2019 No.14439499

>>14439462
>unemployable dimwit
most of the time these guys are sharp, but overly sensitive, especially socially, and thus are basically unemployable not for lack of ability but lack of credentials. They're forced into a position of taking orders from intellectual inferiors and just opt out until the pressure of being broke mounts, then they wind up in last-pick jobs which are unbearable.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:53:18 2019 No.14439504 >Facility runs 24 hours a day, you get a semi-random assortment of 8 hour shifts in the morning, evening or night This should be illegal, and for whatever reason stands out as the most egregious part of this list.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:53:24 2019 No.14439505 >>14439462 Unless you enjoy what you do or are getting paid commensurately, you are a massive cuck

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:55:14 2019 No.14439511 Union up dickhead

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:56:35 2019 No.14439518 File: 510 KB, 1085x775, CapitalIsLove.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14439462 >>14439437 Americringe.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:56:39 2019 No.14439519 >>14439504 He's probably exaggerating, but rotating shifts are almost the norm in small town temp work, unless you're doing office bullshit which is just days

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:58:48 2019 No.14439528 >>14438025 >>Overtime is mandatory, weekend work is mandatory If you make $20 an hour, and work 60 hours a week, OT position is very desirable. Work to amass money for what you need, then file for disability and then quit. It's that simple.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 19:59:41 2019 No.14439530 >>14439437 >False. Companies write this sort of thing into their rules all the time, and while it may technically be illegal, no wageslave is going to pursue legal action against a team of high-paid lawyers.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:01:35 2019 No.14439543 File: 80 KB, 1390x680, retard.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14439437 >If American: >>One 30 minute, unpaid break per 8 hour shift >They're legally obliged to give you 10min breaks every 2 hours, and a 30 every 4 kys faggot

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:01:51 2019 No.14439546 File: 332 KB, 1068x917, 1576975955135.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14439511

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:01:52 2019 No.14439547 >>14439528 Companies don't always pay overtime pay or holiday pay for that matter. Sure, you're still working more, but sometimes the choice of less money and more free time can be preferable.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:01:59 2019 No.14439548 >>14439462 Is there a script they pass out to goobers like you, or do all you of just happen to post the same boomer platitudes without even trying?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:05:38 2019 No.14439576 >>14439530 >no wageslave is going to pursue legal action against a team of high-paid lawyers No need. It's called striking

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:11:46 2019 No.14439613 >>14439543 Silly me, guess I just live in a superior state.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:15:19 2019 No.14439634

>>14439546
I worked with a small business that wanted to put its shit on Amazon. They basically consider themselves an advertising service, that they're doing you a favor by putting your shit on their site. They ended up buying our stuff from us at a loss, and we shipped it ourselves.

Buying from Amazon is voting for a future where all businesses use that model on its employees.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:16:29 2019 No.14439646 >>14439576 Okay, now you and the fellow strikers are fired. You all sure did good.

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:22:27 2019 No.14439676
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>be me, working in a warehouse owned by an e-commerce retailer found through the internet
>One 30 minute, unpaid lunch per 8 hour shift. Two 15 minute breaks
>Facility runs 9 to 5
>Overtime has happened once
>The company ignores you and never comes into the warehouse to check on you, so long as the work gets done and returns are low
>The manager gives you a sample of 92% cocaine and a reference when you eventually leave
>The company buys deli sandwiches, pizza, Thai or Mediterranean food once a week
>I’m on my phone or reading books all day on the warehouse floor, no metal detectors on entry and exit and no bio-metric scanners track your work hours
>Can leave anytime with zero notice
>regularly come in two hours late
>take live resin dabs all day with coworkers

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:24:30 2019 No.14439683 >>14439676 based this sounds more like factory workers I know

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:28:18 2019 No.14439699 >>14438025 Is this supposed to sound bad? pretty decent working conditions desu

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:33:50 2019 No.14439721 File: 106 KB, 900x900, 1428551487229.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>14439499 how do you know my work history ? whats this phenomenal called

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Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:40:23 2019 No.14439755

>>14439499
wouldn't they eventually become sort of dumb and incompetent over time though due to the long term effects of isolation, stress and not really using their mind on a regular consistent schedule (as they would only be doing sporadic menial labor)?

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:48:24 2019 No.14439796 >>14439499 >>14439755 new poster this bothers me more than it should.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 20:50:25 2019 No.14439806 >>14439543 Wow. Alabama is better than Maryland.

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:52:41 2019 No.14440409 >>14439423 This Dont let your shitty job run your shitty life

>>	Anonymous Sun Dec 29 22:57:19 2019 No.14440436 >>14438025 So basically it's hard to plan a schedule because your work is erratic? That's your major complaint?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 00:59:51 2019 No.14441080 >>14439721 cold reading >>14439755 dumb in the sense of soft skills, otherwise the people I'm describing are all cerebral and into books, classic films, etc. >>14440409 Thirded

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:10:36 2019 No.14441125 >>14438025 I’m 80% sure I’ve seen this pasta before

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Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:14:26 2019 No.14441149
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>work 10 hours a week in air conditioned room
>make a little above minimum wage
>can do the same work from home to easily double my earnings with 5 extra hours
thank god for being barely qualified in the third world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:17:48 2019 No.14441161 >>14438036 Pretty much any major DC for those high retailers. Walmart, target, amazon and so on

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 01:20:46 2019 No.14441173 >>14438025 Haha no

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Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:27:43 2019 No.14441483

>>14438025
>Be me, electrical engineer
>Work in a small company
>Do mostly commissioning and testing on renewable energy power plants and R&D
>No one other than my boss really knows what I do and even he doesnt always know where and what I'm doing
>Sometimes work overtime if I want something done or if I'm at the field
>Could get better wage in a bigger company but that would also mean more supervising and bureaucracy
It's pretty good.

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:41:43 2019 No.14441532 >>14438025 pic unrelated?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 02:54:55 2019 No.14441574 >>14439462 Good goy!

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Anonymous Mon Dec 30 04:31:36 2019 No.14441846

>>14439462
>If you're a total unemployable dimwit it's your own fault, and clearly don't deserve a better job
Imagine believing that people should be dehumanised and treated like shit because they're not that bright instead of just lining these greedy faggot CEOs up against a wall

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 05:22:51 2019 No.14441985 >>14441080 >are all cerebral and into books, classic films, etc. This keeps them sharp?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 06:47:57 2019 No.14442289 >>14438025 Should've studied harder!

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 06:48:59 2019 No.14442296 >>14439378 I wonder, does Amazon drug test?

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 06:51:58 2019 No.14442311 >>14439499 Nah, you're just retarded

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 06:54:25 2019 No.14442325 >>14441080 Reading genreshit does not make you smart

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 07:44:34 2019 No.14442491 >>14439676 how do i find a place like that

>>	Anonymous Mon Dec 30 07:53:11 2019 No.14442518 Wow you Americans can be treated as literal slaves by your corporate overlords. I'm no communist and we have our own problems but it must be terrible.