#illegal working conditions

[teddybeartoji]

office au! with coworker!gojo

he's the type to always be a little late. by a little, i of course mean a lot. he always bursts in the door with the biggest smile on his lips and four coffees in his hand. he winks at his coworkers, who then always blush and giggle out a hi, satoru! and you always roll your eyes at that. satoru nods his male coworkers, who always try to dap him up and start a conversation but he doesn't have time for that. he has things to do. (as if he isn't literally Late smh)

he answers the guys' question while he's walking – his eyes set on his favourite coworker. you. sitting in your cubicle, you're trying to ignore him and his dramatic enterance. that he does every single day. how annoying can he be? before you can roll your eyes again, a cup of coffee has landed on your table, making you glance over your shoulder.

he's blinding you, his grin is stretched so wide it's almost a bit creepy. he's standing right behind you, leaning his hand on your table right next to where he just placed the coffee. he's way too close for a co-worker and you gulp.

ugh.

"aren't you gonna thank your favourite coworker for bringing you coffee? whew, tough crowd, huh." his smile doesn't falter and he just leans in closer, his cologne clouding your senses.

UGH.

and he really does do it every single fucking day. he brings you coffee and he annoys you and he makes your eyes roll so hard you almost go blind and you hate to admit that he's kinda cute... it's whatever.

back to the coffees. so one of them is for you – he knows your order because he dug out the receipt from your bag when you weren't looking on his second day there. he almost got caught, too. but he only did that because you didn't wanna tell him your order!! and he was so insistent on bringing you coffee that he just had to find another way. he loved the way your eyes widened and how you tried to mask your surprised expression but nothing gets past his keen eyes. when you asked how he did it, he just told you that he guessed it. yeah, right....

the second coffee is for him. it's an insanely sweet latte. how do you know? he made you try it. more liked begged for you to try it. you also hate to admit that his puppy-dog eyes worked on you... he only drinks the special latte from the corner coffee shop and he refuses to drink the office "coffee". he's fancy like that.

the third coffee is for his second favourite coworker – kento nanami! they sure make an interesting pair. kento is the main reason why satoru even got the job. the latter begged him to pitch for him to the boss; he was so excited by the concept of Office Work and just had to try it out. he, of course, passed the interview with flying colors and kento regrets his decision to "help" him out in the first place. satoru yaps his ears off whenever he isn't doing the same to you and he's constantly leaving little notes for the man. you once saw one and it just had a miniature penis drawn on it. very mature.

and the fourth coffee is for your boss. satoru isn't sucking up like you originally thought he was. you think he just wants to bring her coffee? your boss is cool – she's in her forties and she has a strong voice, everybody always listens to her and she really does make for a very good boss. your guess is that satoru has a crush on her. (you're wrong. he also just thinks she's super fucking cool. literally nothing else to it.)

he's always wearing a fancy white button-up with a black tie loosely hanging around his neck and a pair of matching black slacks that hug his thighs so nicely that the women and the men of the office are always finding it hard to not stare at them. he gets an obnoxious ego boost from this.

he's constantly leaning on other people's desks, pushing his hips out and it really is hard to concentrate whenever he does it. the pose and the smug smirk he sends you when he catches you looking is making you feel hot. he always catches you too, it's so annoying. why can't he just continue doing whatever he's doing so you can admire him in peace?

he's loud, he's annoying and he's so fucking good at his job that firing him couldn't even be a passing thought. he actually does his paperwork rather fast; often finishing before you and that gives him the time to tease you for being slow. he does that way less than you expected though. only a few times in a day – enough to annoy you but never enough to actually make you upset or angry. he actually helps you sometimes. he can tell you don't wanna ask and he doesn't wanna make you feel bad - he'd rather watch you roll your pretty eyes at his stupid jokes with a small hidden smile than roll them with a deep frustrated sigh. he learned that the hard way.

he loves your smile. more often than not you can't keep the straight face you try to put up with him, making your loud laughter resonate throughout the whole office. oh, how his eyes shine at that.

long story short. he's infuriating. he's funny. he's way too good at his job. he's way too handsome. you loathe working with him and yet, you can't stop smothering him in kisses whenever you two "happen" to meet in the printer room.

#coworker!gojo my favourite silly guy #LIKE HE'S WAYYY TOO GOOD-LOOKING #ILLEGAL #IT SHOULD BE ILLEGAL #HOW IS ANYBODY SUPPOSED TO WORK IN THESE CONDITIONS SMH #sighhhh #i have more for him #bc this au has been living in my head for some time now #he's actually a sweetheart and he just wants to make u smile #what's new #it's not like i write about anything other than THAT #oops? #mickey is daydreaming #angel boy #gojo satoru #gojo satoru drabble #gojo satoru au #gojo satoru blurb #jjk #jjk au #jjk drabble #jjk gojo #jujutsu kaisen #jujutsu kaisen drabble #jujutsu kaisen au #satoru gojo #satoru gojo drabble #satoru gojo blurb #satoru gojo au

[the-magnusinstitute]

how does the institute management (read. elias bouchard) feel about unions.

[excerpt from company-wide email sent by Elias Bouchard, 19th February 20–, pinned on the fridge in the staff kitchen]

‘For the last time, STOP asking me about starting a union, I’m going through a divorce and it’s incredibly distressing to hear that word.’

This email was sent over five years ago and nobody has followed up on it. Rumour has it that one of the Archival Assistants disappeared after asking about worker’s rights.

#magposting #answering asks #listen. the pay is good #and we have private healthcare #who CARES if the working conditions are probably (definitely) illegal #tmagpod #the magnus archives #tma #tmagp #the magnus institute #the…correspondence

[aro-culture-is]

Not an Aro-culture-is thing but I do have a question you might be able to answer? Is there an aromantic/asexual term for this: AroAce but if I wasn’t I would be gay? It might just be homoplatonic or homoaesthetic but idk if there was a term for it that relates to being AroAce. Thanks! <3

possibly you might vibe with oriented aroace labels, like gay aroace? i'll put this out there for other folks to consider as well, but I feel like oriented terminology sounds the most applicable from my POV.

#und3rw0r1d-unkn0wn #not aro culture #aro #aromantic #actually aro #actually aromantic #ask #mod axel #sorry we've vanished. we are Fuckin Unwell physically + emotionally tbh #also if the medical industry + the medical insurance industry could Please consider working that would be great #also if canada could pls not be on fire. don't have the spoons to research what's going on but i suspect there's the usual human fuckery #the air quality here is miserable for an area that doesn't really tend to get wildfires #(though fun fact! my fuckin grandpa almost managed to start one by having angry-style dementia and insisting it was fine that he burned log #and then dumped the ashes literally into some fuckin forest undergrowth WITHOUT TELLING PPL until it started smoking the next day. #the area was under a burn ordinance [aka burning shit is illegal due to fire risk]) #fun fact: you are not immune to thinking it will never happen to *you* in what is truly a game of chance #yes you might be *more cautious* than the average person. means fuck all when the conditions are perfect for any small thing to cause #big shit #... yeah i'll leave that as a tag for me to be confused by later

[romanceyourdemons]

#the mertin-flemmer building is like a nyc magnus institute i swear to god #strange working conditions? check #bizarre and (more than) borderline illegal workplace drama? check #queer romance? check #boss revealed to be the bodyhopping immortal the building was named after? check #it’s all there really #the only difference is the main character of being john malkovich is a freelance puppeteer not an english major #ryddles

[kkujo]

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#seeing weird t //rf takes abt surrogacy is so. 😨 'you can't pay to use a woman's body!!!!' ok first of all that is. Not how it works. #like. obviously in some situations people choose to be a surrogate as a last resort which is absolutely not good #but i really really really hate this black and white mentality these people get where if it's bad sometimes it's labelled Bad #some ppl genuinely choose to be surrogates bc they enjoy the process of pregnancy & helping people achieve their dream of starting a family #'surrogacy should be illegal' do you realise how fucking insane you sound? #forcing women into surrogacy should be illegal sure. but can we like. focus on making a society where women don't feel forced into that. #rather than ruling it out and labelling it bad overall when it's so much more nuanced than that??? it's really really weird? #if a woman knows the risks of pregnancy but genuinely wants to experience it to allow someone else to have a child?? #that's? their choice? #the least f*minist thing you can possibly do is say hey actually it shouldn't be allowed for women to do that w their body #like you do realise that sounds fucking crazy right #and then the whole 'they only 'enjoy' it bc they've been conditioned to think that blah blah blah GOD do you HEAR YOURSELF... #why are you acting like all women are immature children incapable of making informed decisions. #in the name of f*minism too like you must realise how patronising it is. #'she THINKS she wants it but no one wants that!!!' or maybe you just don't understand that different ppl feel differently abt stuff. #if YOU don't want to be a surrogate then don't 😭 it's no one's place to tell anyone what they want. #and for those with fertility issues etc etc who can't have their own children biologically it's such an immense kindness & blessing #to have someone willing to carry a child for you. like it's really incredible that people choose to do that #and undermining it by acting like they've been groomed into it by the patriarchy...... hello. #anyway rant over it's just such a weird take and not what i expected to see today #'just adopt' yes adoption is super important and there are so many kids who need homes but. it's also an extremely lengthy process #and rlly difficult sometimes too #& if a couple wants their own biological child that's their choice yk as long as everyone involved is ok w it ur opinion does not matter😭

[elytrafemme]

posting actively anti KOSA stuff on my instagram account which i know is followed by at least one person who is explicitly pro KOSA... who i also work with...

#nightmare.personal #his post regarding it is deleted so i hope he has changed his mind but #man. you have GOT to understand the harm KOSA is going to do #when will people stop looking at censorship as something where you can throw exceptions at it #and expect it to work #if you give them the power to make the internet safer then you give them to power to make the internet more unsafe #& if you look at our cultural context... well. you have three guesses to figure out which it's going to fucking be #it's ALWAYS 'oh we shouldn't censor... EXCEPT' and 'oh this is illegal... EXCEPT' #how are the people going to find out they're exceptions? how broad are these exceptions going to go? #i know playing with absolutes is a dangerous game and censorship is CONTENTIOUS on this site #but holy shit i am begging these people-- begging this man really-- to realize what we're working with here #i have been irreparably scarred by the internet but the terrifying thing about it is #the places that scarred me looked alike to the places that healed me #overwhelmingly queer spaces in both conditions #and so i can sympathize with the terror but also you cannot strike out what hurt me without effectively taking out #what has gotten me this far. that's not something we can do as people. #i wouldn't trust myself with that #and i most certainly would not trust the government.

[liquid-geodes]

I would quit this job if my kitty didn't need her vet bills paid and my shitty teeth didn't need a root canal oh my GOD

#it should be illegal to work in these conditions i swear to god it should be illegal to not provide air conditioning to physical labor jobs #its summer in the mother fucking SOUTH do you know how hot that fucking is? #we're inside a fucking building where theres ac in every other part of the store EXCEPT the back where we work #not even in the break room #they still have the mf heat on in the store aisles as well #there is no hell like a grocery store in the south in the middle of summer

[meltorights]

sometimes i miss doing warehouse work but also i dont

#physical work can be great for keeping you in condition and i loved the guys and had fun but also. #70 hour work weeks should be illegal. #tep.txt

[nerdangels]

Remember when i was like haha i want an office job so i can just listen to music and pocasts all day 🤪 well now I'm bored out of my mind!!!!!!!!

#part of it is i don't know how to DO anything bc i was never properly trained #so any tasks i could theoretically do i still have to find someone to explain to me #im gonna drive a screwdriver into my skull #ALSO ALSO there's all kinds of wack and illegal bullshit like most of the people i work with just working thru their breaks #and dangerous working conditions like the gas leak yesterday #and being expected to go home without pay for shit that's out of our control #grrrrrr #and im actively job hunting but these fucking recruiters cant get their shit together #i hate phone interviews so so so so so so so much #jaime posts

[jvzebel-x]

🦋

#official counts for how many ppl have died so far have been released&counting due to the weather conditions. #there has been a warning out not to drive due to icing for days now. #you know what else has been going on for days? #camp sweeps. homeless camp sweeps have been going on this whole time. #its still illegal to hand out tents. #but the pigs can gear up to displace ppl in a manner that literally has led to ppl dying. #'but the warming shelters--' #do you think cops take the ppl they displace fucking anywhere but a station&cell? are you fucking serious? #they rely entirely on the community members they actively harass to due that work. #the ppl who they are called on specifically to harm due to the work they due. #all pigs go to hell. every single fucking one of them. all of them deserve to rot for the work they do so fucking proudly. #every single fucking one. #the only good pig is a gutted one.

[thatmartiangirl]

Working in the insurance industry and getting a better idea of how it works and it's becoming clearer and clearer how bonkers it is that the healthcare system in this country is insurance based

#martian ramblings #i don't work in health insurance so I don't have any clarity from the inside of that #i work in professional liability insurance #entirely different #because the way that most insurance works is that the things that are insured are expensive and unlikely #ie you pay a little money each month to insure your car and probably won't get into a car accident #but if you do get into a car accident you won't be out tens of thousands of dollars to rectify the problem #(buying yourself and/or someone else a new car buying a rental or paying medical expenses/time missed from work) #but health insurance is weird because you will need to go to the doctor #it's incredibly likely #its how aging works #and with stuff like aforementioned car insurance if someone's a riskier insured (ie a reckless driver) #you up their premium costs #(or stop insuring them) #but with medical stuff it's illegal and morally bankrupt to not cover someone for being at a higher risk of medical conditions #so it really makes no sense for healthcare to be insurance based #it'd be like if your car insurance also covered car maintenance #which would just bloat insurance costs and result in car maintenance and repairs not being done promptly

[asexualjedi]

Maybe I can read in the car???!?

I have no clue dog

Should I email about an extension no. Bc like I think I can get the paper done uhhh it will. Well u know I haven’t had a day off since July why start now I’ll just keep hustling.

#as I keep saying graduate school should be illegal I loved my undergraduate classes #like yeah the thesis was from hell I had a rough senior year but like #my classes were hard but like?? I had time to have a life?!? like?!? #I didn’t take any easy a classes bc I knew I’d get bored right and I always took the maximum credit hours like it was fun and challenging #but like I got to sleep?!? I wasn’t just constantly running around with my head cut off trying to at least halfway be kinda caught up #like this sucks?!? this isn’t good?! like what the fuck this is just a great way to amke people hate learning and school #which I personally think is not a good thing to do in a profession that requires continuing education each year and by its nature needs #a love of learning/or at least not hating reading #great way to like get people used to an unhealthy life style #like I’m frustrated. I wish I could just refuse to be in this awful lifestyle but like ??? I need to pass. I’m fighting for my life and #getting bs which sounds good but is apparently just awful and bad in law school for some fucking reason #and like. fuck Im paying so much money #and like if u don’t read or whatver I don’t know what’s going on and then I’m just so lost about everything it sucks!! it’s bad #idk. I’m so pissed about this like law school should be illegal #truly like makes sense #every lawyer I met in undergrad like in my prelaw clssses said I was the smartest person there bc I didn’t plan to go to law school #they said don’t go to law school if u don’t have to don’t be a lawyer it fucking sucks #and I was like well I’m an artist every artist says the same thing too and same with a lot of engineering computer science it just must be #people hate their jobs #no it’s not it’s those other industries lack of unionization/ just hell stuff making it so terrible working conditions and then #law is just a culture of awfulness??! #also like truly not meant for people with disabilities huh I feel accommodated for the first time in my life in only my disability law class #but like Christ almighty #maybe people who don’t have like learning disabilities don’t have to spend like all of their waking time on law school basically #but it’s evil and bad and people shouldn’t have to live like this I’m not even truly mad on my behalf that much #bc I know I’ll be fine at the end of the day right idk. I’ll make it work but also I’m incredibly lucky to be able to like have a place to #live with family and like don’t have to worry too much about like meal planning/cooking all the time right #like I don’t have to worry about a lot of things that are small but build up right #re the spoons and brain power it takes up right #but like people who aren’t this luckily they are truly just set up to fail and if they succeed accept horrible work life balance

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

with the expansion of work-from-home, I think it would be appropriate and delightful if OSHA started investigating landlords for providing unsafe working conditions. "there's no carbon monoxide detector in this home office (bedroom). The paint in this home office (living room) contains illegal levels of lead. This home office (tiny studio apartment) contains so many safety violations we are shutting down the entire business (rent collecting) until things are up to code."

[gallusrostromegalus]

Basically. I got screwed.

I am very sorry for how relatively quiet this blog has been but I've been dealing with a very unpleasant situation the last few months, and now I need help.

Essentially, I tried to help someone out, and she took advantage of me, and I have no way to recoup my losses.

Earlier this year, I moved into a new house. Before we sold the old house, a Now-Former friend ran into some trouble and was about to become homeless with pets and a small child. Not wanting them to be on the street, we offered to hold off selling the old house so she could stay there for a little while, if she could pay the cost of the mortgage on that house (because I could afford one mortgage but not two) while we helped her find somewhere more permanent.

I was not making money from this- since I was still paying the utilities and property taxes, I was actually losing money, but willing to soak that in order to help her save up and get her on her feet.

Instead, she:

Never Paid a Dime towards covering the mortgage costs like she agreed ($12,000 for the nine months she was there)

Trashed the house ($500 dump fees for the trash alone)

Let her pets piss and shit all over the house ($1,500 bio hazard cleanup, $4000 to replace the carpet and other damaged flooring)

Caused an electrical issue in the garage ($900 to repair)

Broke the washer, dryer and refrigerator ($2500 to replace)

Broke the fence ($1000 to repair)

When I told her I could no longer financially support her and that I needed to sell the old house, she illegally squatted there for a solid three months and I had to hire a lawyer and actually take her to court to get her to leave ($2,500)

The resulting stress has been, as you can imagine, stressful.

So stressful, in fact, that it aggravated a the medical conditions my husband had and made him extremely sick. He had to go to the hospital and take time off work to recover. Now the health insurance is trying to weasel out of paying his short-term disability claim.

So net, this woman has managed to cost me around $25,000 and that's not taking into account the missed paychecks and medical expenses. I do not have $25,000, and until at least $13,000 of that is spent to repair the damage she did, I legally cannot sell the house to even begin to recoup my losses.

Theoretically, I could sue this woman, but she doesn't have any money and it would be me paying even more money I don't have to get... Nothing. So I'm asking for help to cover the costs of getting the old house ready to sell, my husband's medical expenses, and other expenses incurred by this debacle:

If you can help out in any way-share, donate spare change, anything- I'd be extremely grateful.

Thank you.

#signal Boost #fundraiser #original post edited for clarity

[solar-sunnyside-up]

I feel like yall don't know bout earthships??

An earthship is a building that's built out of recycled materials (glass bottles, old tires, cans, etc..) and mostly Cob walls with solarpanels, wind turbines, greenhouses, and large water capture system to ensure all you need within the walls. All these components help regulate the temp for both plants and you creating a proper oasis from all of itnall

Here's a good dissection of one to give you an idea

The most famous one, and one of the first ones ever made back in the 1970s by a small off grid group working together is The Phoenix which was built as the model for how cool these guys could be its now a place you can take tours or rent-

But now there is so many different styles and cool ideas for it! Now some of these are merely concepts

But you can adapt them to any weather for your particular light/weather/energy conditions.

The main thing about Earthships is typically they are illegal to build as the US government considers them waste sites due to the materials their built out of.

#earthship #solarpunk #cottagecore #cabin #cozy #art #hope #anticapitalism #anarchy #off grid #hopepunk

[daloy-politsey]

“They’re trying to discharge her constructively. Do you know what Constructive Discharge means?” She asked.

As soon as I heard the term ‘Constructive Discharge,’ I knew I’d never seen it on a vocabulary quiz.

“No. What does it mean?” I asked.

She explained.

“Constructive discharge is a fancy way of saying “being forced out.” It’s not good. And if you’re not a lawyer or in human resources, you’ll probably learn what it means when it’s happening to you.”

“Oh my God. I’ve seen this my entire career and never knew it even had a name.” I thought.

You’ve seen constructive Discharge too. You may have experienced it. We’ve all made choices to avoid it.

Constructive discharge defined

“We can’t fire you, but we’ll make you so miserable you’ll quit, and then we won’t have to pay your unemployment.”

Then there’s the textbook definition:

“A constructive discharge occurs when your employer has made working conditions unbearable, forcing you to resign.”

Or as one person put it.

“I didn’t get handed a pink slip, but when you’re not wanted, people have a way of letting you know.”

HR isn’t always the secret police.

Employees aren’t always victims of evil-doers.

However, employers push employees out all the time to maintain and protect the, “We didn’t do anything wrong, YOU did,” power structure.

Constructive Discharge looks like this:

— Meeting invitations slow to a trickle, and you’re excluded from emails and generally looped out of what’s going on.

— People stop talking to you or stop talking when you walk in.

— Your emails don’t get answers, or they arrive too late to be of value.

— Suddenly, your work is not good enough, though nothing about your work has changed.

— Reviews, once good or even glowing, are now mediocre or bad.

— Instead of a bonus, you get a Performance Improvement Plan.

— Warnings and write-ups start so they can justify your eventual termination with documentation of your “poor performance”

— Your work, clients, assignments go away, or they overwhelm you with work.

— The words “Set up to fail” were practically invented to describe this scenario.

Constructive Discharge is illegal

It isn’t easy to prove you’re a target, and it’s even more challenging if you don’t even know constructive discharge is a real thing.

If you’ve ever experienced this and don’t fully understand what’s happening to you beyond knowing you’re in the process of being excommunicated, it can be hell. It’s not uncommon for the experience to leave long-lasting scars.

Talk to anyone who’s ever been through it. They’ll tell you.

Knowing constructive discharge exists and how it’s used gives you power to predict what’s coming and to protect yourself.

Seeing the endgame helps you in two ways.

You know what to expect. Having a sense of what’s coming next is enormously empowering. You can go on the offensive and protect yourself. Constructive discharge works to crush your ego, making you feel you did something wrong and deserve this treatment.

Without strategy, you end up being a miserable pawn in your employer’s endgame.

Remember, they’re almost certainly building a case to fire you in the event the hellscape they create for you doesn’t persuade you to quit.

If you’re getting pushed out, and you know what to look for you can prove constructive discharge and you can get unemployment benefits, be released from payback obligations on a signing bonus, and protect your mental health.

You’re not crazy, incompetent, or a failure. This is real and it’s carefully executed to leave you holding the bag and feeling like you did something wrong.

If they force you out, in addition to feeling horrible, you lose your paycheck, benefits health insurance, and possibly owe them money.

#labor