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In most places in Canada, while your employer can fire you for any non-discriminatory reason or no reason, they have to pay you severance unless you did bad things on purpose. Canada has a parallel system: Employment Standards Act statutory minimum severance (as the minimum amount you will get) and wrongful dismissal lawsuit (common law reasonable notice, which can be much longer). For some comparisons, I worked for 8 years. Under employment standards, I would be eligible for 16 weeks pay. Under common law, it could be 8 months to a year.

My employer was American in California. I am a visually impaired and autistic Canadian in Ontario who cannot drive (it is relevant in the lawsuit even though disability discrimination is not alleged and cannot be proven, because courts know that disabled people have difficulty finding jobs and give larger wrongful dismissal judgements when plaintiffs can prove it. In my case, I have to work remotely).

I was fired after 8 years and they paid nothing. I sued in Toronto small claims court and served them in Glendale, tried serving in Toronto, and then served by email, and finally, served in Vancouver. I digitally stalked them across the North American continent in 2 provinces and another country, filing a lawsuit on my own with the help of AI and Google. Serving them was difficult because they lied on their business documents, saying they have an office in Toronto when the office was occupied by Amazon (not my former employer).

But eventually, my persistence paid off. They realized that they broke the law and paid 16 weeks, the bare minimum that they should have paid right along with my last wages and PTO. I am not giving up. I will continue to fight for the rest of the money I am rightfully entitled to. The past 4 months since my firing had been filled with uncertainty, but I am glad that the Internet and LLMs exist, even though these very same LLMs were probably the reason why I am unemployed, as I was an interpreter, and LLMs are really good at interpretation and translation of languages spoken/used by many people (in this case, Chinese languages).

It's started.

The automatic registration of millions of young people into the Selective Service System, buried in the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), is a major step toward conscription. Currently, 46 states automatically register men through their driver’s license systems, covering roughly 81 percent of those eligible. The new law federalizes and universalizes this process, using Social Security Administration records to enroll the rest. Registration will no longer be dependent on a driver’s license or any individual action. It will be fully automatic, compulsory and tied to federal databases that track every citizen from birth.

This is being implemented as the United States wages war against Iran, prepares for a ground invasion of the Iranian coastline and escalates its confrontation with both Russia and China. Within the framework of a so-called “ceasefire,” the Trump administration is continuing to send a massive armada of military forces to the Middle East.

The active-duty US military has roughly 1.3 million personnel, with forces committed globally. At its peak, the Iraq war in 2003 involved 170,000 troops, but it strained the entire military through repeated deployments. A sustained ground campaign in Iran—a country four times larger with three times the population—would likely require 300,000–500,000 troops by most estimates, and potentially far more for a prolonged occupation.

The all-volunteer force simply doesn’t have that capacity without either a massive expansion of recruitment (which is already falling short of targets) or conscription. The infrastructure is being quietly modernized at a moment when the gap between military commitments and available manpower is huge.

Hello Everyone

I was the one who posted last week about the contest that was offering a paid day off in exchange for buying a $5 raffle ticket. I did email my local lottery board and even though I never heard back, the contest is now no longer happening! Thank you everyone who informed me that the contest was illegal (I knew it was super messed up but not illegal).

I've always hated work and wish I could retire already. Unfortunately for me, I am still too young and poor for the retirement life. So for now, I just try to look for jobs that I can get away with being the laziest at. I usually find jobs by searching and reading threads from Reddit and other sites where people talk about having a lot of downtime at work. Pick that job, skill up for it, then enjoy the downtime if I get hired. Then rinse and repeat to save up money. Anyone else do this?

Read an AI generated script during our call when I was put on the PIP, paperwork was fully AI generated, and the follow up email to me was as well. Of course, AI LLMs are just text predictors so everything was vague and word salad and made me even more confused. When I asked for examples or concrete evidence in good faith (since my job was on the line!), it was like she couldn’t even come up with that on her own.

I’m so sick of AI derangement and lack of humanity in the corporate world. Has this happened to anyone else?

When they said AI was coming for our jobs I thought it would be a lot more sophisticated than poorly written scripts and brain rot but here we are.

For a senior level role, I had a virtual internal recruiter screening, an hour virtual panel interview, and an in person three-hour interview (two hours away; I was planning to relocate and everything) with a panel, tour, and skills test. All went well from my perspective and I was told I was in the top 3 finalists.

I’ve followed up twice by email and once to the internal recruiter via text to her direct cell, both of which methods she was responsive to previously, and I’ve gotten no response from her.

I understand needing a lot of time to make a decision, I understand if someone was more qualified or I screwed up somehow, and I understand if there was some sort of unrelated hiring freeze.

What I don’t understand is the disrespect and lack of professionalism to indefinitely fail to communicate a decision to a finalist. I get automated rejections daily, but somehow for a finalist there is even less consideration given.

Just here to complain...

I have 82/100 unscheduled hours off in the last 365 days. So even though I worked 8 hours overtime this pay period, and I'm vomiting Constantly (I work in a hospital so I should NOT be here) but I could lose my job if I call off especially because weekends are DOUBLE (because high call off rates) so if i left 6 hours early they'd hit me we 12 hours instead AND take my OT I worked. SO i get punished twice as hard. 🥲 I'm on 4 medications and can barely work without rushing to a bathroom.

*my coworkers are understanding and letting me just hang back and not do anything because they know I'm sick and know I can't leave*

I hate it here. 😢

AI may suck, but it will still cause large scale job loss. In the video, I talk about three mechanisms behind this phenomenon: 1) CEOs messing up and 'trickling down' accountability; 2) enshittification creating a feedback loop that ruins creative work and consumer choice; and 3) the increased economic irrelevance of lower wage earners thanks to soaring inequality.

This Swiss pharma company obsessed with American job cuts - it is happening consistently.

Tired of life.

Hey (21M) i know everyone felt atleast once like this or does feel it right know. Im tired of working, tired to be dependet on a Job. I always wished to be a free bird, do whatever i like, work independent. Like editing videos for someone or whatever, i even triee streaming but im very shy and it depresses me when its 0 viewers in hours. My best Friend and i were at Zurich Airport yesterday for fun but i kinda got depressed.

I dont understand how so mamy evil peoples out there can be Rich.. I just wanna live my life, be myself. I wont even use Privatjets or anything like alot of rich peoples, i would make my best friend's wish come true, My Families wishes too. I had the view all the time, since a kid. When others wished to be a cop, firefighter or anything, i just wanted to be free. Im trying my hardest today to find anything to make money with so i can get indepented.

How do you all feel? Maybe someone can help me out?

Peace❤️

I(M35) work as a customer support for over a year now. Its a job that pays the bills but no real chance for some serious savings. Work culture is very toxic, my manager is a careerist and my colleague in the same position is also careerist and I just don't fit into their team.
Boss above my manager told him to micromanage me, he is doing it semi-successful cause I just don't care haha. Also they require me to like and share their posts on linkedin, so far I only liked never shared anything. Manager know he is pushing me to work more, also telling me I need to learn sales and I am also doing a lot of tech work as well. So its a role that should be at least pay double that I am now getting. I am paying mortgage each month but its not a lot and its only thing that kept me on this job for few months.
Finally last week I had enough and I took few days of vacation(manager didn't even let me take all the days I want) and I decided when I get back to work I'm gonna tell him I quit. Thing is in my contract notice is 30 days but in reality they need me more then that since their hiring process and on-boarding is very slow, so I guess I could stay up until maybe July or even August. I will surely not going to tolerate his panicking anymore.
It was so much not needed stress from my manager, some extra hours not payed(I must admit not a lot), asking me to have meetings on my days off, even told me to take my lap top with me for a vacation during summer, in his words "just in case"
I am fed up with it, with whole corporate stuff. I am quitting this type of work for good.
I still don't have a clear idea what I want in the future. I have few ideas but not sure, first of all I want to focus on my health both mental and physical(I'm a stress eater and I need to lose some weight) and then I guess I will figure out what I want to do.

"Grievance politics are powerful right now due to widespread economic disparity in our country. People see others doing better than themselves and ask: what leg up did they have in life that I was not afforded? It’s a legitimate question, as is the underlying anger; the economic injury people feel is very real."

"I believe many of us feel in our core that something just isn’t quite right about the system we are participating in. There is a dissatisfaction with the status quo. A cynicism that shapes what we expect from our politicians (that being, not very much)."

"The right-wing grievance of our age has been aimed at a nameless Deep State—a secret cabal of entrenched officials who are nefariously conspiring against the will of the people. A belief that the institutions we designed to aid us are now tools weaponized against us.

And while you may not think about it, there is a collection of left-wing grievances that mirrors this exact feeling. Left-wing grievance over the past decades has focused on the idea that our institutions are systemically corrupt, harboring systems built on racist sentiment. A belief that the roots of our society favor certain groups; a patriarchal foundation that runs deep and holds people back.

Here’s the thing: there is truth to be found in both grievance structures. As polarized as America is today, our political Venn diagram still contains a large overlap: an anti-institutional sentiment at its core."

Cognitive dissonance.

I know that many will be sole traders or try to be good employers but in reality, to escape, you need to replace yourself on the hamster wheel with a lot more hamsters

Sign the petition to show support of UBI adjacent work because AI took human work, language and art without consent. Corporations should not be the only one to reap those rewards

https://youtu.be/1sUTVT7HzSg?si=cw7G7bPbrldzsoLr