Category: Antiwork

Clipped part of company wide email 'why workers need to return to the office'. https://preview.redd.it/898gf0utkcn81.png?width=615&format=png&auto=webp&s=35c50e27ae33a1edfeffafb5a9ef70435f41bdfc

We’ve all seen the cost of living rising at an alarming rate in the US while being paid basically nothing to combat this inflation, we workers need to take a stand. I’m not very knowledgeable on organizing things like this but a strike across the country would absolutely send a message to all the wealth hoarders that us workers that produce the labor and product won’t stand around while they suck up all our labor and energy for their benefit. How to we go about properly starting and spreading a message like that?

So I'm working in the USA and frankly I'm sick of the conditions here. So I've been entertaining the idea of moving to a different country to work and was wondering what are other Countries's working Conditions like? Thanks.

I keep reading all those posts about resignations when bosses are assholes. So it's true and I'm not an American. but right now my job lacks workers, and they try to put the weight on us. So knowing full well that for the life of them they will not fire me, I'm not giving them any more time than I have too, and when they threaten me I just bluntly tell them that they can fire me if they'd like but till then I'm giving my hours when scheduled so they can go figure it out themselves. stay strong and make a decent pay till you find a better place

Not sure if this is the right sub for this, but here goes. I am severely overworked and underpaid, and I'm wondering if anybody has any good recommendations. I sorta bought into the mythology that “if you do what you love you'll never work a day in your life.” I wanted to be a scientist, so I worked my ass off to become one. I have a STEM degree from an Ivy and an astrophysics PhD from a top 5 engineering school. Now I'm a professional scientist all right, but I work 70 hours a week, I'm constantly stressed about bills, I have no job security (contracts are a year long at a time and funding never guaranteed). I'm paid the equivalent of about $12 an hour for a 40 hour workweek, or about minimum wage considering the hours I actually have to work in real life to meet expectations.…

Yesterday a coworker of mine called us after leaving the ER. She had strep and the doctor told her, “don't worry about an excuse, just wear a mask and go to work”. Fucking excuse me? This poor woman sounded terrible. I could barely understand her over the phone and her doctor said, “it's fine.” She refused to come in, my boss was wonderful and told her thank you for caring but a literal doctor told her to go to work with strep? Even doctor's don't give a single shit about workers, he refused to give her an excuse to avoid spreading STREP THROAT. Fuck. What is going on in this world??

I have been here before things got crazy and flooded with people who really didn’t understand our grievances. I cannot thank this community enough for giving me the courage to seek out a position where I was respected, valued, and paid what I was worth. I accepted an offer on Friday and sent my resignation letter this morning and I am finally free from my toxic work environment. I am moving on to something I can make a career in that came with a $20k pay increase and sign on bonus. I make this post to brag a little but mainly to give hope to others on here struggling that you can make it out and find something better. It took me over 6 months but I did it. Fight for yourself because you deserve it.