Category: Antiwork

So we all tend to hate working for shitty companies, no fucking question, but generally speaking if we get a chance to improve our finances we take the opportunity. Hopefully we screw the bosses in the process. So here's my questions, have you managed to do it recently, how did you do it, and how much did your finances improve? If not, what's something that people here could potentially do to help you do so? My story is that last year I got a much better paying job, $11,300ish more, plus benefits in the form of health insurance that cost far less than the amount I had been paying for it, plus a much shorter daily commute. This was after struggling to stay afloat for more than a year and a half, and dealing financial stress that often made me break down and cry at the end of the day.

Hey, Antiworkers. I have been following you folk for a while now and I finally feel comfortable enough to speak openly here. On the outset of my journey following this group I felt you all were just a bunch of complainers, but I can say after reading a lot of you perspectives that you have changed how I view work. I’m still coming to terms with the ideas one this sub, but I’m enjoying the exposure to different perspectives. The amount of indoctrination corporations push is intense, but once you see the other side life makes more sense. I don’t think we were meant to toil our lives away working for someone else just to bring home a few measly dollars. However, as an individual I do value work to a degree. I would much rather be working on things I care about, but a certain side of me sees…

I've been here for a moment. Reading post after post, some of you have to deal with bad bosses and that's completely understood. I've had some management that took the power trip too hard! Then I see other posts where your boss is simply just following legal guidelines. Don't get me wrong, I understand many of your frustrations but I feel like this community has a general goal! Simply to be paid a proper wage and have the reality of surviving without fear of living paycheck to paycheck. The ability to have enough money left over after our bills are paid for repairs and a few luxuries, the ability to buy a house without all these ridiculous price gouging hikes, the ability to buy food and not have to worry wether we should starve or keep a roof over our head. We've lost the most valuable thing too us and…

My wife works for a coffee shop in the middle of a downtown area where cost of living is high. She is paid 12 an hour plus tips. Her manager is the nicest person. The manager defends my wife’s time and energy so incredibly well. The issue is with the business owner. The business has employees that all seem to be worked to the bone, the coffee shop side of things is micromanaged by the owner to the point where it takes 3 months to hire anyone. I just don’t think that my wife is treated well as a worker. The owner has managers working open to close with no breaks, and today was just frustrating as the owner walked into the shop saying that their event next door is going on and they have to stay extra and also cannot pre-close anything. I feel frustrated because as her spouse…

I went to a business as an outside worker today. I went into a room that they use as an office meeting area with a tv and a massive camera under it. I went into the back of the room and somehow the camera under it was connected to the tv and I watched the camera in the TV pan up and zoom in on me. I then freaked out and walked out of the room. New workers going back into the office, beware.

My parents are immigrants from India to thr US. They started off incredibly poor but by the time I was an adult they had 2 thriving gas stations. We currently make around 200000 a year between 4 people which is decent for the small town we live in. We own our own house and split the bills pretty much equally. I’m planning to open a liquor store with the 100,000 that I’ve saved over the past 4 years. We have no employees. We all work 6 days a week and that averages to around 50-60 hours a week for each of us. I also work another 20 hours a week at a restaurant as a server. When I open my liquor store we will have to hire employees because we don’t want to work 90 hours a week. I’ve done the math and for the store to be worth the…

My partner was fired today from their job (Home Depot). It was an attendance related issue, they had a nc/ns a couple months ago due to some personal issues and received a first and final. However, during the write up process the manager told them that the nc/ns was separate from regular missed attendance and as such they would only be terminated if they repeated the nc/ns. The big issue comes that my partner called out last week, had a reason that should have been excused as there was no way they could have made it to work. But because they called out and had the first and final from the nc/ns they were fired today despite what they were previously told by a manager regarding the write up. Anything that we can do? I'm not sure that unemployment is an option do to the nature of the termination. My…

So my company asked for us to volunteer for a group hoaxing food stuff for a large group of individuals. But not enough people volunteered so now we are essentially being forced to “volunteer” for this event. Is there any recourse we as employees have for this? Again i like volunteering my son time but being forced to seems wrong? Maybe I’m crazy, but let me know your thoughts please.

Lately I've seen prices rise quite alot over the year with Chipotle and other fast food chains. Many articles point towards the employee wage increases being offset by higher food prices. Other sources just deny and say more expensive food is due to supply chain costs and less supply. Either way the question I have is why? These are multimillion corporations that rather have customers pay for their employees and issues then fix them themselves and take any sort of profit hit. Is it because customers will come back no matter what? That's the only thing I think of. Some twisted hell for humans…