Month: March 2022

I’ve been in the service industry for many years now and I love it (as much as someone can enjoy a low-paying job. We’ll just say it’s the least painful “pick your poison” for me.) I’m very social, I like building real relationships with regulars. This is my first corporate service job in a long time and it truly makes me sad. We’re under so much pressure to let abuse from customers slide, to just take it. And then this same company is panicking because their retention rate is embarrassingly low, but why the fuck would anyone stay when the company stresses so hard in their training that we literally can’t even say to customers, “that’s a rude way to speak to me”. And it’s so depressingly frequent that they are rude. I try not to internalize it but I’m a person “🤡 and I’m tired of pretending I’m not”.…

Yeah, just as the title says, I don't understand bad bosses that don't treat employees fairly or pay them what they deserve. TL;DR This is my story comparing a bad boss that lost all of my loyalty, to my new place of employment that I love. If you hate your place of employment, I encourage you to leave. Something better is out there, even if you don't believe it. I'm a veterinary nurse, an occupation that's notorious for hard work for little money. It's a high stress job, and not just playing with kittens and puppies all day as some would believe. Unfortunately toxic work environments and burn-out are very common. I started at one veterinary clinic and stayed there for a short while, but ultimately ended up leaving due to said toxic work environment. The next clinic I went to had great coworkers, but the practice owner was terrible.…

Salaries in sports are a zero-sum game. If the players get paid less, we will not see less commercials, less patches on uniforms, or have cheaper tickets. Taking money out of the labor's pockets (fantastically talented and hard working athletes that we actually want to see) does nothing but benefit billionaire owners. Furthermore, sports are often the great equalizer where someone from a difficult and impoverished background can build generational wealth for their families. MLB salaries have dropped each of the last 4 years at a time when league profits and team valuations are skyrocketing. During CBA negotiations, players have consistently moved their requests and the owners have barely budged at all (for example, the players' request for pre-arbitration bonus pool has dropped from $130 million to $80 million while the owners have gone up from $25 million to $30 million). The league consistently plays it's wealthy and influential hand…

I'm 21 years old and at the beginning of the year I got a job as an English Teacher, at the place I used to study (I'm Brazilian). Since I got the message that I was hired, I started asking about the salary for obvious reasons: Because I needed to plan myself financially to see my GF since she moved due to college. And also to know if it was worth my time. And since day 1 she had been avoiding or just delaying. Despite everyone telling me to not accept the job, I gave her the benefit of the doubt and signed the contract. She then gave me my work hours and was a great boss, allowing me to leave during work to solve personal issues and etc. After that she gave me my salary R$2200 (which is great in Brazil for around 22h per week). I then thanked…

It's a known fact that these big corps will throw our lives out the window if it meant saving a couple of hundred dollars, that they'll cheat us of our life so they could gain a few thousand, that they see us as nothing but numbers. But now what?? This is the system we've been thus into and we're larger in number compared to the fat men up top but what do we do? I really feel like more action should be taken but what? We've only got a single life to live and I want everyone to be able to live it happily, not struggling to make ends meet. Semi vent but I'd really like to know if people are willing to take a stand/have any ideas.

Right now, one of the major obstacles to work from home is the multiplicity of state laws that labor leeches have to obey. If you have fifty employees, each in a different state, then you have to deal with payroll taxes and labor laws in all fifty states. It doesn't matter if your corporation is based out of California, or Hawaii – you follow the laws where your employees are located. A unified federal “work from home” law could solve a lot of these issues, and make it easier to employ people from anywhere in the United States that has a reliable internet connection. Right now, all of the labor laws assume that workers are on-site. That used to be true, but those laws were mostly written before the widespread adoption of dial-up internet service.

a few weeks back, a man came into where i was working, and took pictures of me before leaving (i’m a minor and am responsible for getting myself to/from my place of work). i called my boss and told her about it because i was very uncomfortable and weirded out by it. she said “he probably thought you were pretty, and frankly you should appreciate being recognized as such. but if you’re really that uncomfortable i guess i can check the cameras.” this prompted me to start looking for other jobs. on wednesday i get called in because my boss needs to talk to me. apparently i’m not working up to standards i need to be, and i didn’t know this because nobody told me. i’m too slow, too sloppy, etc. but nobody corrected me or told me to fix things. i put my notice in on friday that i…

im a nursing aide. ive been doing it for a year. i started off at 10 dollars at one nursing home, now im at 15 at another. im tired. i thought nursing was for me but i hate my job. i love my residents but i can't afford anything besides rent and gas and electric a few other bills (i commute 60 miles a day.) my partner pays half our bills but money is still so tight we get nothing special. i don't want to be in this field. it felt like a dream at first but i do everything for about 20 people a night. i walk them, feed them, bathe them, dress them, wipe their asses, toilet them, cut their nails, assess them medically, take vitals, roll them in their sleep every hour, check on them every 30 minutes. im exactly what this sub is titled: antiwork. i…