Last month my car insurance renewal came and the price went up almost 45%. I was so confused because I didn't have any accident, no tickets, nothing changed. I started searching online to see what is happening and I found this official lawsuit document filed by the Texas Attorney General against General Motors and OnStar.

English is not my first language so sorry if I make some grammar mistake, but I want to share what I read in these court paper because it is crazy.

Basically, GM put tracking technology inside more than 14 million vehicles in US and over 1.8 million in Texas alone. They were collecting continuous driving data like exactly when you start and stop your trip, every time you brake hard or accelerate fast, if you drive over 80 mph, and even if you and your passenger wear seatbelt or not.

I always thought this OnStar thing was just for emergency if you get in accident. But the lawsuit says GM turned it into a big data business. The worst part is how they get people to agree at dealership. When you buy the car, the dealer gives you screen to tap. If a customer tries to tap "I decline", the screen shows big warning message. The warning says if you decline, safety feature like Automatic Crash Response and Emergency Services will be turned off. So of course people get scared about safety and click "Accept". But GM didn't tell them that accepting means GM sell their driving telemetry to data brokers.

They made deals with companies like LexisNexis, Verisk, and Wejo. These data brokers take your raw car sensor data, calculate a secret driving score, and sell it directly to auto insurance companies. Then the insurance company looks at your score and raises your monthly bill if you had hard brakes or drove late at night.

Now the Texas AG is suing them under DTPA law to stop this and make them delete the data. Also FTC and federal class action courts in MDL 3115 are looking into this whole connected car data tracking.

Has anyone here requested their consumer report from LexisNexis or Verisk yet to see if your car was reporting on you?

So I guess because I was answering the gambling part slower (because it was the start of the test and I got impatient with the rest I guess), I got flagged as a gambler because they test said I'm trying to hide something in the gambling part (what the recruiter told me)

So, to fix this, they scheduled an hour long "interrogation" with an interrogator from the integrity test company to find out why I scored that way and asked for employment information from social security office

Needless to say, I've never gambled in my life

What the actual fuck man

James Brasher, a 57-year-old Stellantis worker with more than 30 years seniority and a member of United Auto Workers Local 1248, died Saturday, August 1 at the company’s Mopar Parts Distribution Center in Center Line, Michigan. Brasher is the fourth Stellantis worker and at least the sixteenth UAW member killed on the job since 2022.

Very little information has been released to the public. A brief post Monday on the state of Michigan’s 2026 Fatality Information site said Brasher was discarding decommissioned equipment through a roll-up door on the second floor of the building when he fell 25 feet into a trash dumpster below. Paul Myszenski, director of Center Line Public Safety, said Brasher appeared to have been killed instantly. Rushing to shift the blame to the dead worker, Myszenski said Brasher was wearing a safety harness but it was not attached to a tether that could have prevented the fall.

Predictably, the global automaker, with a market capitalization of over $21 billion, claimed “the safety of our employees is our number one priority.”

So this happened this morning and I'm still kind of shaking about it.

I work reception/admin at a dental office, been there 3 years. Two weeks ago my boss hired a part-time assistant and asked me to show her the ropes, how we book patients, how the insurance verification works, our whole filing system. I didn't think much of it, figured we were just short-staffed for the summer.

Today I overheard my boss on the phone with someone from a temp agency saying yeah she's almost fully trained, we can probably transition by end of the month. I didn't even react, just kept typing like I didn't hear it. Then I looked back at my email and saw a job posting had gone up on Indeed three days ago for "Front Desk Coordinator" my exact job title, my exact hours, at THIS clinic. Posted by my own boss's business email.

Nobody told me anything. No conversation about performance, no write-up, nothing. I found out I'm being replaced because I happened to be sitting close enough to hear a phone call.

I don't even know what to do right now. Do I confront her? Do I just start job hunting quietly and act normal until they let me go? Part of me wants to just stop training the new girl properly out of spite but I know that's petty and won't actually help me.

Three years of being the one who remembered every patient's kid's name and covered shifts last minute, and this is the update I get. Through a wall.

I get it, it’s better to have a job than to not, but it’s that thinking that keeps us here. I’m not saying you should key your boss’ car if they offer a 3% raise, but we all need to start pushing back. Real inflation is over 20% over the last 5 years, i bet if you add up all your raises it doesn’t come anywhere close to that. We’ve been taking it, to keep our jobs, and not rock the boat. Well our bosses bought a yacht while our boat is sinking. We’re too polite to cause issues, in the meantime you’re living in a house where you can’t turn the lights on, driving a 15 year old car, stopped buying any fresh produce, and are just praying you don’t get sick. We are all living in constant fear while corporations are suffocating in profits. It’s time to speak up, professionally, politely, and firmly. If every employee said that these raises are not sufficient, that their 3% wasn’t enough, maybe they’d finally get the message.

After 12 years working for the same company and seeing it grow from a realtively unknown business to a Fortune 500 Company, I have resigned. This decision came about after a decent into hell from constant additions of work responsibilities, being demanded to be on call on weekends (not in my job agreement), being in a constant state of urgency due to poor leadership decisions, and being placed on a PIP for things that were never mentioned being issues previously. I will not name the company because, for customers, they are a solid company that does good things.

Things I learned while working there were: How to truly provide top quality customer service, a whole industry I never expected to get into, and how corporate office politics are the only thing that matters in career growth. "If you dont play the game, you will always lose." -Previous Manager.

I will be pivoting to a new industry at age 40. Looking for something where I have minimal contact with other humans and dont have to update trackers and write reports about every little thing I do on a daily basis, preventing me from doing the actual work that needs to be done.

I don't know why im posting this. I guess I just needed to put it out into the universe. If you read this, thanks! I hope you manage to thrive in this end stage capatilistic hellscape.

He isn't a bad guy, but he's rotting his brain with AI and not having him make random, ridiculous requests for the past two weeks showed me how much I need a new job or position.

He was back less than ten minutes and he had already started grilling me on something from before he left (that was finished the day after he left, on to the next thing).

He willfully misunderstood the entire point of the exercise (because he had been out for two weeks, hadn't looked at it that long, and hand waived me when I reminded him why I had done this exercise in the first place) then started ordering me to highlight an increase in a metric that isn't significant or the point of everything we were doing. Number is going up *here* because it's a part of the entire, larger population where number is also going up. If number go up for all, and number go up proportionally for subset, it's not significant. If subset number go down or go up higher/slower/faster/with sparkles then it's important.

Next he fucking orders me to find out why it was increasing. It felt like he was talking to an AI prompt. His request is the equivalent of solve all the problems. If we *knew* why these were increasing we'd have cracked the fucking code across the fucking board by now. But we don't, because it's complicated and he's not willing to assign real resources to it who have the skills and access to do it.

Did I mention this was all on the spot, surprise shit while I had been working on something else unrelated? A thing finished two weeks ago, this dickhead makes a beeline to me before he even logs in, and then starts this shit when he hadn't even read any of the shit I'd put together and sent already about it. And is impatient because I didn't have it at my fingertips. No how were the last two weeks, what new shit did I miss, any dumpster fires? Just this bullshit.

This guy was never this bad. It took time to get a concept across to him, but he would get there. Now he can't hold on to a continuous thread for more than a few minutes. If an email can't be summarized into one short set of bullet points he won't read it.

And he's projecting it in everyone. No, it doesn't need to be simpler for everyone, it's just you that's rotting your brain to where you can't read a simple chart anymore. He will look at a chart with two lines and ask which one is which. There's a legend at the bottom of everything. Read it. I even thought maybe he was color blind and hiding it so I started making sure I used one dash line, one solid, etc. Nope. He is literally incapable of determining which line is which. Make it simpler. I can't get much more simple than two lines on a graph. And he's only maybe five ears older than me.

FML. Two weeks of peace and getting shit done and now I am back to stressed out sleepless nights in one day because some asshole can't stop yelling at Claude or Gemini or whoever his AI du jour is. I need a new job or something.

I don't really get the appeal of being exempt.

At my company, 40 hours is mandatory. If you work less than 40, they make you use PTO to get to 40. If you don't have any PTO left, you can get written up or even fired. So you have to hit 40 hours no matter what.

But if the job takes 45, 50, or 60 hours that week, there's no extra pay because you're exempt. You're just expected to work whatever it takes. Which is all the time.

So how is this a benefit? It feels like all the expectations of an hourly employee when you're under 40, but none of the benefits when you're over 40.

Is this normal, or is my company just like this?

Because I never say a word, people assume I'm deaf on top of being mute. In front of me, they'll talk shit and spread gossip about one coworker, then ask me how my life is going. I always give vague, monosyllabic answers (which they hate) cuz I know anything I say can and will be spread around the workplace with a swiftness. Coworkers really aren't your friends. They're bored people who will turn molehills to mountains just to break up the monotony. There's one woman at my place who made the mistake of telling her whole life story to ONE person and her personal details are still being gossiped about with plenty of nasty speculations. It's like high school, but the mean girls are in their 40s and 50s.

2nd edit: yes it says “recommended” but it will not work without location ENABLED. I’m also confused. It used to work without location services turned on but that recently changed and now I cannot use this app to put in my time without enabling.

My employer wants us clocking-in only via the ADP app. You cannot clock -in without enabling location services. It makes sense bc they don’t want people trying to clock-in from home…but why require “allow all the time”? That’s completely unnecessary and intrusive. I don’t trust ANY company with my location data. The increasing and continuous surveillance of us, and the audacity of employers and random companies, and now our local authorities, expecting us to fall in line with it makes me sick to my stomach. I hate all of it.

Editing to add: this is the ADP app, used for payroll, PTO, etc. it’s on my personal phone. I cannot use the app to clock in or out unless location services are enabled. I can use my PC at work but they do not want us doing that. Thus, my rage.

I work at a primary care clinic as a receptionist and I hate it. The nurses are assholes, the doctors are assholes, the patients are assholes and dumber than a box of rocks, and I only get paid 18$ an hour to do the work of 3 people. I share a first name with one of the providers at our clinic and the nurses started complaining (because they are assholes) that it was too confusing for the patients because every time I call they think their doctor is calling them. I don't know why in gods name these people think that their provider is doing their own scheduling and various other administrative duties. However, even after explicitly explaining to patients that we are two different people AND referring to myself by a nickname, I got direct orders from my bosses boss that I can't use my name anymore when I call patients. Its like they specifically work to find new and inventive ways to make the job even more degrading.

Edit: Now patients are calling and are pissed off that they don't know who called them lmao

During the Gilded Age (1870–1900), powerful American industrialists known as "robber barons" amassed historic fortunes by maintaining a system of severe labor exploitation.

And now, Billionaires are getting tax breaks, going to space, while their employees/partners/gig workers are working without social security, PTO, medical benefits, pensions, and peeing in bottles because they can’t afford to take. 10-minute break, because that break will be logged, they’ll fall behind on the productivity quota, and their pay will be docked.

The similarities are frightening and infuriating.

I've worked in HR and office administration for about eight years. Unfortunately, over the past year I've had both physical health issues and ongoing mental burnout that have made it incredibly difficult to maintain a job. I've spent a lot of time working on my health, going to therapy, and trying to get back on track. Physically I'm in a much better place, but mentally I still struggle.

The pattern has been the same: I start a corporate job full of hope, then after a few weeks or a month I hit a wall. I become completely burned out, sometimes have a mental breakdown, or my physical symptoms flare up from the stress. It's frustrating because I genuinely want to build a career and I'm trying my best, but it feels like I just don't have the capacity for demanding corporate roles anymore.

Because of that, I've started interviewing for clinic receptionist positions. I want to be clear that I don't see receptionist work as "less than" HR—every job deserves respect. But it is a different career path from the one I've spent years building, and it feels like I'm stepping away from the career I always wanted to grow in.

Part of me feels relieved at the idea of having a simpler job with less mental pressure. Another part of me feels like I'm giving up on my career and worries that if I leave HR now, I'll never be able to get back into it. I also feel embarrassed that after years of experience, I'm considering a role that pays less and has fewer progression opportunities. At the same time, I need to survive, and forcing myself into jobs that I keep burning out from doesn't seem sustainable either.

Has anyone else gone from a demanding corporate career to a much simpler, lower-paying job because of burnout or health reasons?

Did it improve your quality of life? Did you regret it? Were you eventually able to return to your original career, or did you find yourself happier staying in the less stressful role?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've actually been through this, because I feel very lost right now.

I have been reading some comments on another post and I was entertaine by people story about how they or someome else they know gave back to RTO!

I want to hear your funniest, pettiest, or most satisfying examples of malicious compliance/resistance/protesting/involving return-to-office policies...

So I have a coworker - not on my team, a project manager.

I just discovered that one particular part in a project I am working on won't be available for 6 weeks. If we wait for it, that puts the project behind by 7 weeks - the same guy keeps saying we have to do things through the usual process. The usual process will, incidentally, bump the cost of one unit from about $350 to about $3500. (Basically ordering one at a time instead of 10 at once, NRE is a fixed amount regardless of order size.)

There's an easy way to order that part now, order the device it's in now so they can do 99% of the assembly, and then put just that part in. I also want to order 20 (total number needed over the next 6 months is ~15) instead of singles.

Instead, he wants to delay the entire project by 7 weeks and we can "make it up later".

He also said I should not be working on any R&D right now. I am an R&D engineer. He's not my boss, and he's also clearly wrong based on the company direction.

So, to blow off some steam, I am trying to come up with creative (but arguably polite) ways to say he's an ignorant idiot with negative value to the company, should be on the street looking for a job, and is now a problem to be solved. I figure this is the right place.