If Elon Musk had 80% of federal employees fired like he did at “X”, that alone would cause 1.68 million workers to lose their jobs. With 168.7 workers in the U.S. it would bring current unemployment rate of 4.1% (7 million) to 5.3% (8.7 million).

My calculation may be slightly off.

What were the most helpful phrases your nurse or support person said to you during delivery?

Hey yall. So I’m 38 weeks today. I started pumping only for about 25 minutes! (Yes I got permission from my OB) ever since pumping, I have been having a lot of Braxton hicks with period like cramping in my lower stomach. Could this be labor? This is my second pregnancy, BUT with my first, I got induced. My family and friends are telling me, induce and natural labor is completely different. The contractions don’t feel like the same at all they said. So I’m really confused on if this is real or not lol

TLDR: Does the federal or Texas state government provide some kind of tax breaks or subsidies of some kind based on how many labor hours a business utilizes? Is there some other reason a commission-based employer would overhire to the detriment of all their employees?

I work as a hair stylist in a salon/barber shop in Austin, Texas with 8 chairs. I've been at this shop for 2 years now, and we were always consistently busy, up until the last few months. We all thought it was just a fluke and would pick up, but it hasn't. We all earn 45% commission on services, plus tips. So when there are no clients, we're not making any money. We had 7 stylists, and were all spending inordinate amounts of time sitting and waiting for customers every day, so management did the obvious thing (???) and hired another barber and stylist. We were already confused by this, when they hired ANOTHER stylist a couple weeks later. And then yet A.N.O.T.H.E.R.RRRR shortly thereafter! We now have 11 operators to our 8 chairs, and of course, each of our appointment books are pathetically sparse.

I understand that this doesn't really cost the company more, because they don't pay us an hourly wage, but what I DON'T understand, is what benefit they receive from filling the shop with so many bored, and now impoverished, individuals.

I asked the director if they were trying to push out the original stylists or something, because it doesn't make any business sense (unless all the new hires came with their own large clientele, but that was not the case). After much deflecting, she told us something along the lines of, "The shop needs a certain number of labor hours in order to cover our expenses." But if 11 people are still doing the work of 7 (or less), how does higher labor hours = higher profitability? I also told her that the workload isn't enough to sustain their current labor hours, and that stylists are just going to leave and find better jobs (every one of us has been looking), and then they won't have the hours anyway. I don't understand.

Am I in the wrong?

I’ve known my fiances mother for 11 years and we have a relationship. Our relationship is pretty cool and simple. It’s definitely not like I’ll go spend time with her without my fiance though. Let’s just say I tolerate her for him.

Well I’m 7 months pregnant today and I am working on my birth plan. I truthfully do not want her in the labor/delivery room. Am I wrong? Especially after how she treated my mother and grandmother at our baby shower (separated them from the party). I’ve felt like this before the baby shower but as time is getting closer I’m starting to feel more and more that I just want it to be my fiance, my mother and sister. Me and my fiance haven’t had a real conversation about it but I feel and know I’ll get push back or he will definitely feel some type of way “because I’ve known his mother for 11 years and she looks at me as a daughter”. His mother has her own daughter who she can experience this with and I would like people in the room who are there for me and that I’m comfortable with.

Might I add, she’s a bit controlling. She’s already saying “when my baby gets here”. Already judging how I want to do things with my baby. Also, she does not even check on me and when we speak I get “you acting funny, you can’t call me” realistically I never did randomly call you just to chat before so why are we changing things now.

Sorry this is a lot. Any advice is appreciated.

Thank you

Help me understand REBUS WAREHOUSE labor management I work for a very big distribution company. They just implemented a labor management tracking program. This program knows how fast it should take us to get to point A to point B on standup forklift. On top of it and knows how long it should take us to do each process and pull each pallet. They say for me to get out of training I need to be at 75%. For the past two weeks I’ve been at a consistent 52. I’ve never been told my works not been enough before but I’m just curious if any of you guys have had any experience with this at warehouse jobs or have any ideas that can help me.

Edit: Sorry if this isn't the right place to ask, but it seemed like a good place to start.

I work for a Fortune 500 company. I was hired on as an “independent contractor” to write for a specific team. In the process I’ve:

-Been required to attend regular meetings at specific times, including “team meetings” that effectively set my schedule

-Worked alongside full time employees on my own team doing similar/identical work

-Been offered the potential for a full-time roll, only for the decision to be delayed for a month+ after many, many interviews.

-Been paid irregularly - while the initial agreement established a payday of the 3rd Friday of the month, we were recently told we’d now be paid on the 30th (which, to be fair, is in our contract as the last possible day)

I think by CA law, I’ve been misclassified, but I don’t want to ruffle feathers unnecessarily. I like the people I work with and don’t want to make claims without a legal backing.

Do I have a case?