yes that’s how bourgeois media tries to trick workers into being against strikes. Any delays are solely due to United Parcels Service incorporated not properly paying their workers.
By not negotiating, the company - hand-in-hand with the bourgeois media trying to make that the sob story - are actually holding medical equipment for ransom.
If you’re concerned about medical equipment maybe UPS should stop forcing its preload to go faster than it is safe, leaving open packages all over the place because they say that slows us down, loading tractor trailers not only to the ceiling but to the point where you can’t even open them because they’re that packed in. UPS is causing this shit, not Teamsters, not the employees.
UPS has never respected things like medical equipment and your packages. They don’t care, it’s all the bottom line.
This is what the company thinks of everyone’s packages, these are all from average days. This is what the Teamsters want to prevent by making kig conditions materially better for us.
I was quite literally told to stop repairing and taping open boxes by a manager because when you stop unloading a trailer for even ten seconds it “hurts production”.
I’m a package loader.
I have to step over piles and piles of packages to get inside a trailer that’s completely swamped with them. Yes, I am crushing your packages because my supervisor told me to.
I’m expected to lift 100+ pound packages at least 5 feet high into a trailer by myself. I’m 5′4.
I watched my supervisor stack a ULD in a way that was gonna make it hard for the next person. When I asked her about it, she said “That’s the point.”
I have to climb over and onto thin metal bars and walk on moving belts to unjam chutes because they’re so heavily backed up with packages. Those jammed packages also get massively crushed by the sheer weight of packages coming down. Sorry, your Amazon box got crushed, there was a 75 pound package that the unload team sent to me instead of setting it aside as an irregular like they’re supposed to because they’re being yelled at to unload faster.
I have had over 32 bruises from various packages beating me on one leg.
When my shift (Twilight) is understaffed, instead of asking people on day sort if they want to double (which I’ve heard they want to), the supervisors just do the work instead which they’re not even supposed to under our contract.
I had a supervisor accuse me of not wanting to work because I suddenly took a week off. I took that week off because I was so stressed out and suicidal that I couldn’t drive. He also tried to get me to quit in the same conversation.
I once accidentally broke something in a package and a supervisor told me to tape it up and send it anyways. It was an acrylic shelf display and it was extremely sharp.
This job is fucking cruel. And currently I am flat broke and have spent many weeks having to cut back on the amount of food I eat because I can’t afford anymore.
We do transport a lot of medical supplies, resources, test samples, etc and those people who work those jobs, who move all of those priceless items are paid the exact fucking same barely livable wage, and I would know because I’m one of them.
I’ve never been more disrespected at a job than I have here. Walmart treated me better than this.
UPS workers deserve so much more for the shit we have to go through.
reminder to fellow writers to remove your work from google docs. there are new AI programs being integrated -as well as human employees- that will effectively scrape your documents and WIPs for subject matter. oddly enough this seems to coincide with the writer’s strike so they’re most likely going to try their hand at AI generated tv shows, movies, books, etc. and you will not receive ANY compensation for them stealing your work. thankfully i only have work on there from years ago bc i use word. but regardless i won’t have some dumbass greedy corporations stealing my work because hollywood won’t pay writers fair wages. google is officially nasty. here’s a list of a few other programs i know of to use as alternatives <3
Libre Office - free
Apache Open Office - free
Novlr - subscription based
please feel free to add other options in the reblogs!!
they might allow you to opt out of AI training but there’s really no telling when they’ll decide to just change their terms and conditions and say our work is scraped at their discretion. there’s really nothing more wild than companies that are sued for theft, putting systems into place to effectively steal from customers, then telling them it’s all cool for now - until it isn’t
fuck these stupid corporate assholes! don’t let them steal your work! (AND DONT CONSUME AI CONTENT)
edit for those who want to willfully misinterpret (literally only 2 people out of over 200 but it’s annoying already): this is a call to be cautious about google docs going forward.
see: “until it isn’t” + “there’s no telling when they might change their terms and conditions”
if you think this is too wild for you to understand go ahead and take a look at your snapchat T&C or your discord or almost any other big companies that collect your data at large. check out the authors who are currently suing for their work being stolen. look at the thousands of illustrators whose work has already been stolen. check out ao3 authors whose work has been stolen. it’s not a matter of right now and that’s not what the conversation is about. it’s about the inevitable and profitable changes that will most likely occur
I want a dionysus design where he’s some otherwordly beast, like some really big, dark, horned, ivy-infested Something that’s dripping what looks to be wine but could also be blood and as he’s moving through the bushes he looks sometimes like a bull and sometimes like a leopard and when he turns to look at you he has a human face, but he is wearing it like a fleshy mask.
[ID: a link preview of a stock image coffee table with a laptop with the facebook logo on the screen with text on top that says ‘anyone who used facebook in the last 16 years can now get settlement money. here’s how.“ end ID]
Time Sensitive- Apply before August 25th, 2023 (8/25/23)!
Filing a claim takes less than ten minutes, and can be done HERE
Excerpt from article:
Anyone in the U.S. who used Facebook in the last 16 years can now collect a piece of a $725 million settlement by parent company Meta tied to privacy violations — as long as they fill out a claim on a website set up to pay out money to the social network’s users.
The settlement stems from multiple lawsuits that were brought against Facebook by users who claimed that the company improperly shared their data with third-party sources such as advertisers and data brokers. The litigation began after Facebook was embroiled in a privacy scandal in 2018 with Cambridge Analytica, which scraped user data from the site as part of an effort to profile voters.
Meta denied any liability or wrongdoing under the settlement, according to the recently created class-action website. However, the agreement means that U.S. residents who used Facebook between May 24, 2007, and December 22, 2022, can file a monetary claim as long as they do so before August 25, 2023.
Please reblog to signal boost this! As many people as possible should know about this to make their claim, if you don’t do anything you don’t get anything. It takes less than ten minutes to file and pick your payment option including pay/pal and ven/mo .
Yes this is real. And there’s less than 300 million American facebook accounts, over half of which probably aren’t even active and not all of which are gonna do this. You could maybe get enough out of this for one alright meal! That’s free food! Get your free food money!!!
zoomers i am going to give you some fathrly advice: really plucked brows are coming back. dont do it. you cn permanently fuck them up and in 5 yrs when its not on trend you will look like shit. a groomed natural brow works in every era of fashion theres lots of ways to comb and style brows to trend without mangling them. im just saying this as someone who saw what happened to 80s moms who went crazy wth the tweezers
they just eyebrows u won’t die shave them off zoomers pluck them all out and then get tattooed eyebrows it doesn’t matter . u won’t look like shit if u don’t have eyebrows op is a hater
this is the devil ^ this is the devil speaking. many will come to you with honey in their mouths and comforting words but they whisper falsehoods. do not be deceived for he is the father of lies. you have been told he would come in the form of man and he is already here among us.
reminding you yet again that historians will not misgender your skeleton. historians will not gender your skeleton at all. in all likelihood assuming you go for a fully natural burial your skeleton will not remain intact, and if you happen to be the lucky dinosaur against all odds skeleton gender is pretty nebulous, and unless you’re somehow the only lucky dinosaur nobody will give a shit. listen to me. there are 8 billion alive people on earth right now. you hear about like thirty notable ones against your will sometimes and they get rotated out every twenty or so years. nobody give fuck about your skeleton. except me. cool bones bro
They’ll know what gender my skeleton is because it’s going to stand up and attack the historians for disturbing its rest. My gender is cursed
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