Author: Olivia

Hey all. I work with a Loan company in which part of my job is calling customers that are late on their loan payments. So many people are working paycheck to paycheck to pay it off. Many have had covid and can’t pay, and others simply have given up. It sickens me hearing how rough some of these people have it. People from all over, all ages, and all walks of life. I get it, if you get a loan, you have to pay it back eventually, or make monthly payments. Meanwhile celebrities are going to the super bowl on their private jets, CEOs are continuing to pay low because they decide to pay “market pay” and not what employees actually deserve. I’m tired. I try to be as empathetic as I can, but it’s just hard. I wish this country didn’t put people in this kind of situation where…

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/snyc0l/employer_changing_my_job_duties_without_pay/ For anyone that was curious for an update, I discussed with my manager and only presented the first option (reassigning the project) because even if they did agree to a 40k raise, I still wouldn't be happy because ultimately, I don't want to do that work. Good news, my manager talked to the director and they are going to reassign the project! So a big FUCK YOU to the folks who found it necessary to DM me to tell me how much of an idiot I am and that I'm going to be fired for telling them “no”. This ended well but I did a lot of thinking last week and don't know that I want to work here anyways because I'm not engaged with the work. I updated my resume and sent out a couple apps last Friday and have some phone screens lined up this week…

I've also done the same thing at my company: use vacation time to get a break from your normal duties so you can work on a special project for work. And this is considered normal in our workplaces. This subreddit is helping me see how utterly messed up this is.

Annually my company begs us to donate to a fund for employees in need…from other employees. Why not pay them more? Why don't YOU pay the money? Since they track “participation” I always donate $1.00 to get us a high donation ratio but it's effectively $0.00 so I don't feel like I'm selling myself out too badly.

…..and on top of the federal/state laws on individual rates, there was a collective percent required to go to the labor pool? What if Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft etc all had to pay, let’s say, 50% of all revenue to labor. If they pay over, fine. If they end up paying under, they have to spread out a yearly bonus to meet that percentage. My state forces health insurance providers to spend 80% of all money coming in on peoples’ care. The professional sports leagues have a revenue sharing deal with the players. Why not publicly traded companies? And maybe smaller private businesses have a lesser percentage.

I felt this way since my teenage years. I remember in 8th grade thinking 'Idk wtf am I gonna do when I grow up' and feeling the sadness even then. 29 now, still know fuck all. I literally cannot imagine waking up each and every god damn day and going to work. Always felt like something HAS to come along that will be good for me and this feeling would stop, but it doesn't. I can't even take control of my own fate, because I don't have a dream fuckin' job and a goal to pursue. Idk the fuck to do. And the thing is, I was unemployed for a long time and that wasn't good either. Maybe cuz of social programming of glorifying work but nevertheless. So I'm in this limbo of sadness and anger… Had an ok job now for 5 months in a sport store, worked with…

Posted this a couple weeks ago here, however I feel like this needs a lot more attention as it will help us show just how much money these companies are stealing from the workers. Lets first look at Apple Apple has 154,000 workers, so we take that number and multiply it by the $100 per hour raise, then multiply that by 2080 which is hours per work year if you work 40 hours a week for the 52 weeks. 154,000 x $100 x 2080 = $32,032,000,000. This is how much it would cost for them to pay their employees the $100 on top of current wages. Again this includes ALL employees and assumes they all work full 40 hours a week Apple in 2021 has made a PROFIT of $94.7billion. After giving every worker a $100 per hour increase they will still be one of the most profitable companies out…