Month: April 2022

We're hoping this is appropriate and okay to post here (we will move this elsewhere or delete it if asked) but for now, some context: we always hear the older folks complain about how crappy things are these days with how PTO works, how paychecks are, how inflation is going, etc. Nobody in the younger generations (literally anyone our age or younger) knows what a union is. Some of them literally think just straight-up emailing corporate will make them listen to you and we have had to explain to a close friend why that wouldn't work, ever~ We work the front doors at a Walmart and are also getting pretty sick of how things are going. Like, it isn't an Amazon warehouse for sure, but we get the feeling it's still absolutely horrible here from some of the snippets of conversations we have caught. Oh, and also, that front door…

I work in a technologically advanced industry that creates products critical to transportation. I was always a union supporter until I had to work as an engineer around one. We have a union at my facility which represents the hourly workforce who build our products. And they are ruining our business. Engineers and managers are unable to work effectively because represented workers will threaten them with grievances for absolutely no reason at all, such as “using tools on union time” when an engineer tries to look at something with a flashlight. You get a grievance for carrying a small box from one desk to another because a “material handler wasn’t hired to do it”. Entirely new positions have had to be created so that there is someone technically skilled enough to actually touch the product because the represented workers threaten engineers over touching the product. When safety checks are being…

Can we get the lab technicians of r/antiwork to just start passing all drug tests? It seems to me we need to start doing covert acts such as this to fight the system. Employers should not have a window into what's in our body waste.

I think you might enjoy Carson McCullers’ novel “The heart is a lonely hunter” (1940) BEAUTIFUL insight on socialism matters, idealism and a strong antiwork manifesto. Give it a read, its worth it. EDIT: some typos! English isnt my first language

I interviewed with a company a few months ago. I was told they had a strict 4 round interview process. This is an upper management position with total compensation well into six figures plus equity. After round one I was excited. The executive I met with even emailed me back saying they were looking forward to round 2. Within 24hrs of that email the recruiting firm I worked with emailed me that they had given the position to someone else because they loved them and skipped the 4 rounds they told me they required. Whatever, they can do what they want good for them and let it go. A week or so later A DIFFERENT recruiting firm reaches out to me about interest in the position. I told them I already interviewed and after round one was told they offered the position to someone else they skipped rounds for. Turns…

A few years ago, I was working as team leader for a small department (me and two other guys) at a company that had just gone through a merger. We were responsible for highly specialised work – geographic and demographic analysis and targeting. I start noticing that various managers (including mine) obviously now make more money after the merge. New cars, fancier new clothes, not to mention various corporate retreats and other perks, while me and the team are still on exactly what we made before the merge. Following the second year of “sorry team, there's no money for pay rises this year”, I step into my boss's office to talk to her about a pay rise. By this point I've been with the company 7 years, and my team is directly responsible for us gaining and keeping the biggest, most lucrative accounts the company has. For the record, I'm…