Author: Olivia

I was curious on what the normal yearly raise is? At my job we apparently get 2% raises a year (and sometimes another one in July depending on if you get paid less than average for that job in the state). I calculated what a 2% raise would be for myself as I am coming up to a year in April, and it would only be $0.31. I feel like that’s too low. Or is this normal?

So, I am not a socialist. I'm opposed to wokism…but I agree with a lot of you about our current situation. I'm Canadian, so my pov may be a bit different as I've kind of lived the socialism route where industry drags and creates different avenues of industries for taxation. Namely in Canada…well at least some provinces…using real-estate as an industry, jacking prices to unfathomable unafordability, taxing their sales gor revenue, all while redistributing province funds of higher GDP, in equalization payments to other provinces with lower GDP, severely affecting millennial and zoomer upward mobility through sky high cost of living, all while ignoring creating meaningful production. Money printed is inflation with no production. High paying, high value production employment is more likely to create happy societies than free paper cash or freebies… which are never free. I get this may be against a lot of opinions here and that…

I was at my job for almost 3 years, and there were a lot of things about the job that turned me off. For one, it’s an apartment rental company that raises prices a lot. They hold events for tenants and spend a LOT of money on them. They give us random gift cards and have a very expensive Christmas party every year (I won a Yeti cooler) – but they’re afraid of employees talking about their wages and forbid it. Why? Because it takes away the bargaining power of the employees which is unlawful. They can more than afford to pay their employees more, but they’re more concerned about lining their own pockets and keeping up with appearances. I posted my wage on social media after quitting with an article explaining why it’s unlawful for employers to forbid talking about wage. I just checked my personal email, and the…

I just asked on different subs (including this one) if socialism in the service industry means the right to refuse service to Karens and they said no. It only means higher pay, longer breaks and shorter work days, but when you're at work you still suffer from abusive customers. This “improvement” won't make a difference to me. I'd rather work in an evironment without Karens for 500$ a month than work in a stressful job for 10,000 $ a month