Month: July 2023

Due to inflation, I'm making 50 cents less per hour than when I started in Feb. 2022. BUT, the team I supervise (and by extension my workload) have doubled in size since I took the job. I sent an email to my manager today asking for a raise greater than 50 cents since that would only get me to making the same as when I started. I'm sure they'll come up with every excuse in the book to deny the raise. We have a meeting next week to discuss. I'll update you all then.

Due to inflation, I'm making 50 cents less per hour than when I started in Feb. 2022. BUT, the team I supervise (and by extension my workload) have doubled in size since I took the job. I sent an email to my manager today asking for a raise greater than 50 cents since that would only get me to making the same as when I started. I'm sure they'll come up with every excuse in the book to deny the raise. We have a meeting next week to discuss. I'll update you all then.

In my view, Google, Apple, and Microsoft should be paying for so many people having to re-train and re-skill in the US over the years to stay competitive. This includes learning or continuously learning the latest software, and working under increasing uncertainty. Perhaps the state governments should be paying people as well for having to work under such antisocial conditions. It’s as if we all have Aspergers now that our emotions and relationships are mediated by tech. These tech companies should also be paying journalists and local newspapers who have lost their jobs or struggled to make their business models work. As people consume more information online, it’s difficult for local news to stay competitive. Now they often rely on ads or online subscriptions which aren’t easy ways to stay viable, while before they printed and delivered the newspapers to people’s doors (which was more predictable). These large tech companies…

Here’s the link to the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/14uxwps/called_in_sick_when_i_wasnt_really_sick_and_i/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1 Basically, my boss tried to ruin my birthday plans to see a concert Saturday night in a city a few hours away by scheduling me way earlier than I normally work on Sunday. I went anyway and called out, to which I received a nasty response telling me that I’m a crappy person for doing so. I’ve been covering shifts at another store of the same corporation nearby. When I got there today that manager told me that my original manager said he was taking the shifts that I’m already scheduled for and refusing to schedule me again (he didn’t tell me this). This is because I called off…one time. The good news is, the manager at the other store immediately filled in the shifts I lost and is scheduling me at her store for the same amount of hours I originally…

What else am I supposed to ask? The color of bathroom tiles? Exactly what else am I supposed to care about? The company in question is a very well known law firm. I expected the recruiting process to be a little longer and more complicated, but this is just bs. The interviews were very long, exhausting, and I even had to do one of those MBTI personality tests. But the company looked and sounded promising so I just stuck with it, thinking that I was finally going to be told all the details at the last interview with the partners. And then to be told this. I swore to myself that if I get called to attend another round, I would tell them to fuck off. Thankfully, this was it, but it was all for nothing, since now I know literally nothing about the job. They said that they would…

My hours got cut at my job because I was too efficient & would always finish early & ask what else I can do so I stopped doing extra stuff or covering for other people/positions. Got in trouble for that so I went & found an easier job on an air force base doing custodial work instead of inventory management & it pays $22.84/hr ($6.84 more) & guarantees me hours as long as I'm willing to work.

Every job I’ve had, I’ve become that “go to” person that knows everything, has seen everything, can fix everything. I come in on time, am rarely sick, try to schedule my vacation days with plenty of notice. Essentially, I’m always the office “ol’reliable”. I always thought this was a good thing – buckling down, learning my job, being a low maintenance employee – every managers dream, right? But I’ve started to notice a pattern, and I’ve seen plenty of posts here of the same, I almost always get passed up for a promotion because I’m “too valuable” where I’m at (but when I ask for my pay to reflect that value, they say “ha, no” and then I’m back job hunting). I’m at that point now, where I’ve been told I’m not making any more money and I’m not going anywhere so – how do I prevent this from happening…