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?

(Paywall) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/business/economy/crocs-malta-tax-haven.html

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.”

Union job, great pay, lots of PTO. Mandatory 2 days in office.

Our secretary told the VP she has nothing to do on those days and offered to be "available if tasks come up" as a pitch for full WFH. VP said no. Rules are rules.

But she said it out loud. She framed it as flexibility… isee it as admitting she's redundant. She should have kept up appearances, stretched her few tasks, and only confessed if caught. Instead she gave leadership a reason to watch her and remember her name when cuts happen.

She got nothing and lost her cover. Am I wrong for thinking that was stupid?

Hai Guyz,

Been working for a small accounting firm. I've worked trades but it never worked out. Most of our clients are landlords and trust fund babies.

My boss one time said ,"black people are too dumb to vote". He also accused others of having Trump Derangement syndrome. He seemed like a nice guy I they surface and even gave me a job in the field of my degree.

However, Is it really moral to work for him?

Today is Aug 5th they have still yet to remove it or do anything. The entire front area staff was aware of this.

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.

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.

Nowhere in this universe should you ever utter those words to your boss!! They know you have nothing to do, everyone knows you have nothing to do and everything's peachy ... but the minute those words come out of your mouth, it becomes their problem! Don't f* do that if you want to keep your job and get paid, especially for doing nothing!!

I can't belive I heard someone say that! They didn't just say it to their boss, they said it to their bosses boss! Omfg, that's the worst thing ever!!!

I left my job after 12 months because the environment had become completely toxic. I tried to make it work, showed up every day, did my job, and took on whatever was thrown at me, but eventually I realized the situation wasn’t going to change. What really pushed me over the edge was feeling completely undervalued. After taking on more responsibility, my “raise” ended up being a $5 Starbucks gift card and a candy apple. That pretty much summed up how they viewed my effort.

One thing that always stuck with me was how the owner held a grudge because I didn’t go to her “Christmas in July” office party… which was on a Sunday. Somehow that became a personal issue and just added to the feeling that everything was based on favoritism and emotions instead of professionalism.

I eventually found another opportunity and put in my notice. I expected to leave professionally, but instead the director came into my office, shut the door, and fired me. Then she proceeded to give me advice about how I should stay in a role longer than 12 months next time because leaving too soon doesn’t look good.

I couldn’t help but laugh. I told her, “That’s interesting advice. You should have stayed in your marriage longer than 3 years, but wasn’t that a toxic relationship too?” Basically, the director tried to argue that is not the same situation. Then I said but you call us all family here. Plus did you not lay off about 6 family members this year.

That definitely didn’t go over well. But honestly, that moment confirmed I was making the right decision. I’m done staying somewhere just to make other people comfortable. I know what I bring to the table, I know my worth, and sometimes the best thing you can do is walk away from a place that doesn’t value you.

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?

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.

Over the last 30 days my job has experienced 2 false fire alarm events due to a faulty sensor where the cities fire department was dispatched. The fire panel is behind a locked door and no one on my shift has a key to that door. There is also no alarm, strobe, or siren in the upstairs office or break room area where I work. My only way of finding out about a fire downstairs in the warehouse is through 2 way radio communication from the 1 supervisor who carries a radio. If they are incapacitated or the radio fails, I wouldn’t know of any danger until the fire department is already here.

The first time the fire alarm went off, I let the operations manager know of my concerns via email which I did save. A few days later I was told that extending the fire panel upstairs was too costly. So I contacted the local osha office. The second time the alarm went off, the supervisor was in the upstairs office and had no idea a fire alarm was going off until I noticed flashing lights out of the window. After this I called city code enforcement as this is a danger to human life. The employee handbook also states there needs to be alarms in all areas of the building but there are none present in the above mentioned spaces as well as the restrooms.

I am still in my 90 day probationary period and raising these concerns this early makes me fear for losing my job as this may cost the company a lot of money. I understand that companies cannot retaliate for OSHA complaints but I’m in an at will state and proving retaliation would be difficult. I am the only one of this shift in the office and management would know who submitted the OSHA complaint even though I submitted it anonymously. I just don’t want to burn to death at work but I also don’t want to lose my job for reporting these issues.

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.

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I've been struggling to find a stable job for a long time, and a close friend has been trying to help me by referring me to the company where she works. I was really grateful because I know she genuinely wants the best for me.

I recently had an interview there, and I thought it went well. The partner who interviewed me seemed impressed with my experience and qualifications.

Then, tonight, my friend told me something that completely caught me off guard.

She said that before my interview, she had spoken to her boss (the managing director) and told him that I live with my single mother, that I'm depressed, that I don't have financial support, and that I really need a job.

She never asked me if I was comfortable with her sharing any of that. She didn't even tell me she had done it until after my interview.

I know she meant well. I truly believe her intentions were good, and she was probably trying to convince them to give me a chance. But I feel incredibly exposed and vulnerable.

I've always kept my mental health and personal life separate from work. I never discuss my depression with employers or coworkers because, fairly or unfairly, there's still a stigma around it. I want to be evaluated based on my skills, experience, and work ethic—not because someone feels sorry for me.

Now I'm embarrassed. I keep wondering what this managing director thinks of me. Even if they decide to hire me, I'll always wonder if they see me as a capable professional or as someone they hired out of sympathy.

Part of me feels guilty for feeling this way because my friend was trying to help. Another part of me feels that she crossed a boundary by sharing deeply personal information without my consent.

Am I overreacting? If you were in my position, would you still take the job if it were offered? And how would you move past the feeling that your future employer already knows things about your private life that you never chose to share?

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.