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I love how the solution is to cram people into smaller and smaller boxes instead of just I dunno not monitoring your fucking drivers like they’re fucking inmates in a maximum security prison you fascist-lite fucks

Edit: Good on 'em for quitting. Every single member of the population should refuse to work for these pricks until they get the goddamn message that we’re adult fucking humans and we expect to be fucking well treated like it. The fact that some of us have the choice between kowtowing to this or starving is a stain on our society.

Double edit: “I hope you have to drive for Amazon in your retirement” might be a contender for the most horrible thing you could wish on someone in 2024.

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You should almost never quit if you expect to be fired. Make them fire you and file for unemployment, then challenge them when they try to get out of it. The government tends to err on the side of the employee in my experience when things are unclear, and “We have a knowledge gap that prevents us from confirming whether or not you were actually violating policy, but you’re fired anyway” is the kind of thing you can feel pretty confident challenging.

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Make them fire you and file for unemployment, then challenge them when they try to get out of it.

I do not love the odds of a day laborer out maneuvering their professional claims denial behemoth in a court packed with pro-business Federalist Society flunkies.

Against some mom and pop porter service? Sure. But the odds of beating a company that vast and influential seems low.

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Depends on the state. Some states are near impossible to get unemployment in. Others, it’s almost impossible for them to deny you unemployment outside of being violent or stealing from them. Know your state’s unemployment laws and use them to your benefit as best as you can.

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My Mom managed to get unemployment in Texas against an oil company by spending about an hour total on the phone over a week.

Bonus was that the incident happened about a week before the Covid lockdown, so not only did she get unemployment, but also got the $600/week Covid unemployment bump.

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These drivers are most likely contractors, not employees, so no unemployment.

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If the drivers are contractors, wouldn’t this level of surveillance and dictating how they perform their job be a violation of labor law? I thought this level of micro management would indicate that the drivers are employees not contractors.

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not monitoring your fucking drivers like they’re fucking inmates in a maximum security prison you fascist-lite fucks

Weren’t you schooled in the US? Aint this exactly what they trained us for?

OBEY, PERFORM, DON’T ASK QUESTIONS OR ELSE

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Weren’t you schooled in the US?

Actually, no. Is that the problem? 😂

Edit: Well, not entirely. Jokes aside, that is a difference I noticed, when I moved here.

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a privilege and provides some context.

do you think that your schooling background and employment experience do not have these basic elements present with in “work culture”

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we’re adult fucking humans and we expect to be fucking well treated like it

Sounds expensive. You’re going to hurt company profits with that attitude. Five Demerits on your Social Credit Score.

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Communist totalitarianism is wonderful and good and as American as apple pie as long as it’s corporations doing it not governments.

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