Category: Antiwork

I did a lot of cringy shit as a teen (who hasn’t?) and I did a lot of shit wrong. But one thing I think back fondly to is looking them in the eye and telling my Managers at Wendy’s “proper brain function costs $10 an hr.” I got paid $7.45 Whenever a customer wanted to berate me for something, or wanted free food I would yell for a manager. I’d never handle that shit on my own. “Use your head Tom!” “I will for $10 an hr.”

I am looking for advice or maybe just encouragement if it can be spared. Sometimes when I’m with friends or family and a political issue or something work-culture related, I cannot help but try and persuade people to think about how to improve our working conditions. I live in a medium city in the Midwest US surrounded by a very rural area. Friends and people my age are generally open to some forms of progress on societal issues I guess, and yet when I try to talk about more freedom in the work place it’s just met with incredulity. I am simply asking friends if they could imagine a situation where employees would get some say or power in their company in the decisions that affect the employees most like benefits, wages, work schedules. They think the idea is somewhat admirable but completely unattainable. I kindly reminded them of the…

I started working as a server in a semi fine dining place. The pay is good but the have me working 4 positions at random and each one they gave me a day of training and expect me to know what I’m doing. For the AM server role they gave me 1 day of training and then made me train someone else on my second day. For busser they gave me 6 hours total of training which would be fine if they didn’t have stupidly high expectations. We have to carry everything ourself, can’t stack plates on the table and have to try and make a single trip. I can’t clear a 4 top by myself like that and it stresses me out so much. They all just stare at me as I struggle. They also have me working as a food runner soon and I’m going into that with…

I've worked retail most of my life & for the first time, I've found a decent company. We're paid well. Our bosses are kind and focus on positive reinforcement. Our successes are cheered on, our failures are met as challenges we need to realistically overcome with helpful advice to get better. When our district manager visits, I have 0% anxiety. That is so weird to me! She's there to actually help, usually when we get a big shipment we need help with, and then she praises us for how well we're doing before leaving. Past district managers would berate us constantly, move around everything in the store, and make everyone ridiculously nervous before leaving. We get good PTO, it isn't a problem if I need to change my schedule sometimes, my boss who's the store manager isn't allowed to work more than 40 hours a week as a salaried person,…

So a bit of a rant, I have seen several posts, and indeed have known several people that have been short changed on pay, or flat out not paid for the work they have done. How can a living being (saying human gives too much credit) go to sleep at night knowing they are robbing people of the most precious thing they have, their time. Now disclaimer, I am a business owner. When covid was just getting started we had a couple of weeks of no income. I sold a car, and dug into my savings to make sure my employees got paid. I wasn't able to do their full salary, but it was enough to make sure everyone kept food in the table, because dispite being a registered LLC with 50+ employees I was denied a loan. Luckily we work in the I.T. sector, and business exploded. So what…

There have been a few discrepancies in the past, (along with every place ive ever worked at) and i know that they will scrimp and save on every dime that they can, and that wage theft accounts for the largest form of theft in the US. I just want to have the agency to track my own hours to compare against the hours that they have listed for me. Does anyone use any third-party apps that they use to track their own hours? I think it's important for everyone to track their own hours.