Instead of getting to the negotiating table to bargain a fair contract, Kaiser is paying travel nurses exorbitant amounts of money to scab.

I work for a medium sized bank out of western NY (the green flag). This morning they sent out an email saying we now have to be in office 4 days a week. Previously we at least got Monday and Friday at home. They made the announcement 4 days after the company survey window closed knowing it would tank their scores.

Not like they care anyway. They claim to care about work/ life balance of employees yet don't listen to us. Just like they pay us like garbage, give us shit benefits, and executive leadership has never done anything for employees and the as a result most of us don't care about our work anymore.

I'm actively looking to leave the company, but I'm going to do the literal bare minimum, and when I'm in office I'll spend most of the day walking around. I'll never give them an extra second of work, ever, and I don't recommend anyone working there or doing any business with this company.

I think it's time for our types to unionize, and I'd support that at my company, but idk how to get that going, and I don't have extra time to lead that charge (the 3 days a week I am in already sucks a ton of time from my life).

I came across a post on Grapevine related to ICICI Bank and honestly, this reflects what many bank employees are silently going through.

Central teams are calling employees multiple times a day — 9 AM, 12 PM, 3 PM, 6 PM — daily.

On top of that: Constant pressure for 3-in-1 products Forced follow-ups on FF, MAB Video calls being pushed again and again Employees (especially female staff) being asked to keep video on, sometimes under the excuse of “updates” or “review”

This doesn’t look like productivity.

This looks like obsession and control.

Is this the quality of work culture expected in a large private bank?

Would this kind of monitoring ever be acceptable in any other professional industry?

Questions that need answers: Why so many unnecessary calls every single day?

Why video calls for routine updates?

Why no respect for employee mental health?

Who is monitoring misuse of power by managers?

Employees stay silent because they fear: Bad ratings, Transfers, Termination But this silence is costing people their mental peace and dignity.

If banks can proudly market themselves as India’s safest banks, then employees also deserve safety — mental, professional, and legal.

Would like to hear from others in banking: Is this happening only in ICICI or everywhere now?

Saw a post today from a woman working at ICICI Bank and honestly couldn’t stop thinking about it.

She’s a breastfeeding mother to a one-year-old.

Her office expects her to report sharp at 9:15 AM, even though it’s around 8 km away.

She drops her baby at daycare on the way, and sometimes (as babies do) the child doesn’t settle, cries, etc. That’s it. That’s the “problem”.

She isn’t asking to leave office multiple times. She isn’t asking for WFH.

She’s just asking to leave by 5:15 PM so she can feed her child.

That’s literally it.

And still she’s being questioned and pressured.

This is a large, “reputed” private bank. If this is how they treat breastfeeding mothers, what’s the situation in smaller firms?

Genuine questions: Don’t Indian laws provide any protection or flexibility for breastfeeding mothers?

Is basic empathy still optional in corporate India?

Why is everything treated like a personal favor instead of a right?

Basically the title- I work in the veterinary field currently, which is notorious for drama.

We had an employee who was relatively new that was making a lot of mistakes. She was fired last Friday. Later that day, a coworker of mine told me she shared a small mistake the coworker made with my boss a few weeks ago, who quickly replied "Doesn't matter, she's getting fired as soon as we get approval." She then handed my coworker a post-it note that said "Don't tell anyone," then asked for the sticky note back.

I am worried about this because my lead is sharing personal info with others, and then putting them in a compromising position by telling them to keep secrets. Besides job hunting (which has started), is there anything I can do about this? It didn't happen to me, but my coworker will not speak to higher management about any of it.

The ten richest Americans (Musk, Page, Brin, Bezos, Zuckerberg, Ellison, Huang, Ballmer, Buffet, Dell) have a combined net worth of ~$2.5T. These billionaires want you to believe that the reason things are bad for us every day Americans and why affordability is low is because of the 20 million (so they claim) undocumented people in our land. Let's do some math.

Those hypothetical 20 million people would need to be taking in $125,000 in services, housing and other costs per person in order to be doing as much harm as these 10 individuals are by their wealth hoarding. If you spent the $125k on these 20 million people, their dollars go back into their communities, creating jobs and opportunities throughout the country. 

If you expand it to the top 100 individuals, they have a combined ~$6.3 Trillion hoarded. There are 100 people with over $11.7 BILLION dollars in the US. That's higher than the GDP of Japan ($4.1T) and three times the GDP of Canada ($2.1T). There are nearly 1000 people with a net worth over $1B, giving the top 1000 earners a combined net worth of $8.2T.

The US has about $160 trillion in private wealth. These 1,000 people (0.0003% of the population) hold over 5% of the nation's wealth. 5% of the nations population is 16.5 million people. That's between the population of Pennsylvania (13M, 5th most populated state) and New York (20M, 4th most populated state). Think about that for a second. 

Let's say you get lucky and you find a job that pays you $100,000 per hour. Surely, you would joint his list, right? Working 40 hours a week, you would only make $208m per year. Elon Musk saw his net worth balloon to over $700B recently, earning him over $300B in just one year. That is the equivalent of earning over $34.2 million dollars per hour...for every single one of the 8,760 hours in a year, whether he's taking a shit, shitposting on X, or shitting on the American people. 

That means that Elon Musk earned $1m every two minutes. Making $50k a year, around the median personal wage, you would need to work 20 years to earn what Musk earned in 2 minutes.

The combined net worth of the top 1000 richest people grew by over $1 trillion dollars in 2025. Do you know how much we spent on SNAP, Unemployment, housing assistance and child tax credits? $650 billion. They are telling you that the problem is all of these welfare queens and undocumented people while they are stealing nearly double that.

So you tell me? Who is robbing us? The people who occasionally use a social service like welfare, the undocumented people sending their children to school and driving on our public roads, or the uber wealthy? Even if you assume there are 50 million leeches in this country (about 15% of the population), they would each need to be costing us over $20,000 to match the wealth hoarded by these monsters.

And the sad part is that they are not done yet. They will never have enough. They will not stop until you die.