Author: Olivia

I want to talk about this recent LinkedIn/Twitter trend of #ShowUsYourLeave where companies post their supposedly amazing benefits in an effort to receive accolades at how well they treat their employees and simultaneously recruit new “talent”. Have you seen this? I’d love to open up a discussion about how these seemingly generous benefits are actually all designed to further lock people into working more and are in fact not benefits at all.

I have been at my first full time entry level job for awhile now. I accumulate 15 hours of PTO of each month. With my weird static schedule, I can place two PTO days a month on certain days that land next to others. It allows me to work no more than 3 days in a row, I get two “two days” off in a row each week with this method. I already lucked out I work alone/don’t have coworkers and don’t do anything at this job. I sit on my phone all day and hide. My main point is I feel bad that my “supervisor” (she’s sweet) under my boss has to come in and drive an hour to fill in while I live 1 minute away and could easily do it.

TL/DR; There needs to be some way to help (i.e. governmental assistance) small businesses that would be destroyed by raising the minimum wage. I have had an issue with a misconception I’ve seen on this sub that is troubling me. The idea that if a small business can’t afford $__/hr, they shouldn’t be in business. I’m here to tell you that this is not a cut and dry issue. Backstory: My wife founded and owns a very small outdoor recreational gear store. She has 10+ employees and did roughly $600k in business last year. That’s not good as far as bigger retail stores go (REI’s stores usually make millions/year). It is definitely not what someone would call profitable, but it is actually a ‘successful’ business in that it is making more money every year than the previous and is extremely loved by the community and the employees. Most of her…

Why is it SO OBVIOUS to us that increasing worker salary increases consumer spending which in turn increases business profits? I'm sure millions of people would love to be able to buy something frivolous every once in a while without having to worry about which bill will have to go unpaid that month. Why do these business owners/CEOs/politicians continue to argue for high profits AND high personal salary while completely ignoring the fact that their consumer base struggles with affording the basic cost of living and does not have extra money to spend? What kool-aid are they drinking that allows them to just act like this isn't a very obvious problem with an equally obvious solution?

Hi Antiwork, I’m a college student at a large public university in Colorado. I work as an Resident Advisor (RA), a student employee who receives a stipend (room and board covered) as payment for the community development and safety work we do. I was recently made aware that RAs have been attempting to unionize, what with the conditions we have been subjected to in the past few years. While the university managed to get a clue last April and paid its residence life staff a $500 hazard bonus for the entire COVID year (2020-2021 school year), it was made clear to us that this was one-off (and, if I do say so myself, a little bit of too little, too late). The new union is trying to recruit, and while running a program yesterday we were approached by two union reps handing out brochures. My direct supervisor was there with…

Hello all and bear with me on this as I’m on mobile and this just recently happened in my life and am looking for advice. Like the rest of you with the recent increase in inflation and cost of living going up it’s gotten hard to get by. I’m a single male living on my own in my 30s and over the past year I got a job that was rather amazing. I started out at 60k a year and I was so stoked and happy I was cheering in my car when I was accepted and crying tears of joy because it was so surreal and I would no longer be paycheck to paycheck and finally sleep well at night knowing I wouldn’t have to worry about bills and rent. Fast forward to today. My rent has gone up 50%, what I usually buy for groceries costs 60 dollars…

This is my first year with a small family owned company and I had my 11 month review today and it didn’t go very well. The company has a small sales staff of about 6 people and currently there is a lot of stress being put on the sales staff for a number of reasons. Being short staffed is a company problem but particularly a problem for the sales staff. I am constantly dragged away to help my coworkers clients and it’s not so much a lot of time per client but so many clients that I have to stop what I’m doing and help and then I don’t get what I need to get done. During my meeting today it was strongly alluded that my job was in danger because my sales were below the quota I’m asked to hit. My quota is also the same as several other…

I (24M) was fired today. I am a student, but also work part time for the government and a shoe store. Today I called in sick from my government job because I was nauseous and throwing up all morning. By the afternoon, I felt well enough to leave the house and I went to the shoe store to pick up my paycheck. My tuition was due today and I needed money. While I was at the store (a matter of minutes) my boss from the government job comes in. (Not to buy shoes, obviously). He said “what are you doing here if you're sick?” I told him I was only getting my paycheck so I could have some money in my pocket for food, gas, etc. Without hesitation, he asked for my work keys, credit cards, etc. He said “this ain't gonna fly. You're done”. He went out of his…