Author: Olivia

Hello everyone. I started my first full-time job after school in April 2020. Two months after, an “another boss” from a different division from the same company came to me and asked me to join his division to position with much more responsibility but more money (since he heard, that I was working fine). I agreed, so I moved my position there. Yet still, I wasn't working directly under the company, but I was part of the “third-party” agency. In June 2021, my boss asked two of my coworkers at positions above me how I was working. After he heard positive responses, he decided to put me out of the agency to directly hire me under the company. So from June 2021 to the end of May 2022, I'm on a one-year working contract (which is in my country considered as starting pack). After the year, the company will decide…

Wealthy business owners playing the system, using our government to their gain.

Long time lurker here and I was dreading one day having my own unfortunate story but here we go… I recently started a new job in a very specific field and location and really felt like after years of busting my ass off I had landed my dream job where I could build a future. Good coworkers, great benefits, and we agreed on a net annual salary “in my pockets”. Then I started the job and received my first paycheck and noticed it was lower than what we had discussed. I immediately flagged the issue to HR and was told there must have been miscommunication and indeed some deductions were covered in the 'net salary' (taxes and such) but others were fiscal obligations (employment/retirement insurance and such) that everybody had to pay. I think it's about 2500 USD a year (I'm not in the US) which is enough to sting…

So, the company I work for requires that we do a covid health check from our phones every day. My boss recently had a talk with some of us that we needed to do our health checks prior to entering the building. We are paid hourly though and the time clock is inside the building. I explained to him I don't get paid to do the health check prior to clock in. He explained to me there will be disciplinary write ups in the future if I don't do the check prior to entering the building. What can I do about this forced work prior to getting paid?

So my company has been doing some pretty questionable stuff recently and I wondered if this was a thing that is messed up but legal or if it is actually illegal for them to do. We have a security team that wands people inside the building and checks everyone’s bags to make sure no one bring weapons inside the building. They also are the ones that check everything before locking the whole building. Well we are cutting costs and I suppose the security team is going. They recently want to add a new “position” basically taking over security’s job and have our general employees cross trained to do it and will provide some sort of training. I don’t know much but I feel like there should be some sort of safety regulation for that but I am not sure. They were employed as general staff not security and I believe…

Reasons for not getting a raise according to boss or employer

Before I start getting hate let me tell you why. It's a shame that companies large and small choose to treat their employees like garbage. I wish that weren't so. I see so many posts about people getting just completely humiliated, mistreated, sexually harassed, threatened etc. In a better world we wouldn't need this group, but I'm glad you all are here. You all really opened my eyes. A thought occurred to me that may have come up before so here it is: has anyone thought of getting together and making a company with fellow antiwork members? There's so much talent and potential among all of you that I'm sure it could happen. What if members that were local with similar talents got together and made an antiwork/anticorp thing? I don't know might sound stupid. Let me know what you think.