Category: Antiwork

Just made a throwaway for this. I recently applied for a relatively low level tour job in a major city on the east coast of the US. I was interviewed and received a contract to sign, however some of these clauses are ridiculous. First as a contractor I get paid $25 per (3 hour) tour and an additional $25 as a bonus that accrues and that I can cash out once every three months. If I am in “breach” of my contract – ie if I quit without 30 days notice – I forfeit all my bonus payments. Another breach of contract is if I am unavailable to work on 24 hours notice even after I've set my monthly availability. So any travel risks me losing half of my meager income and quitting pretty much guarantees this. It sucks cause it seemed like an interesting side job but I can't…

Does anyone have recommendations for books to read up on unions and labor history in the US?

Checked the emails at work today (I’m a care worker with people with intellectual and physical disabilities working in a direct care role) and for some reason there was a job offer mailed out industry wide for the role I perform. Now I know this was just a ‘send this on to anyone you think is interested’ type thing, not a threat to my position (I’ve been here 20+ years) so I almost deleted it. But then I decided to read through, to see how it described the job. It was full of new speak, catch phrases, empty jargon. But most importantly it literally didn’t describe the actual job. Which explains a lot. Because although they employ 300+ direct care staff every year, almost every time I encounter someone with less than 1 month of experience, they are utterly confused as to what is expected of them. Cooking? No one…

We were fed pizza and later on we found out the small group of VIPs got fed BBQ, you cant make this shit up.. lol

Hi! I was wondering the legality of what my manager is doing. I work at a coffee place in missouri. My manager is also the owner (she bought/opened it as a franchise) she had been taking our tips whenever there is a mess up. Like we make the wrong drink and it goes to waste however much the drink costs is taken out of our tips. Sometimes she does help out as a barista and covers if someone calls out, or it get really busy. I was wondering if this was legal? Everything I can find says it is illegal but I was wondering that since she also sometimes helps as a barista she would be entitled to some amount of the tips.

In my last position, I was so burnt out, from 3am emails, no time off, the lack of support from my supervisor, the constant stream of new projects, but what sealed the deal, the last nail in the coffin was a dead weight employee gave notice. I was polite and said, thank you, then proceeded to have a meeting with my boss, and said let's celebrate. However, instead of celebrating, we needed to have meetings with HR over the next 2 weeks about what went wrong and how we could have salvaged this employee. I gave notice before dead weights last day.