Category: Antiwork

Why aren't these ideas leaned on more heavily in this sub? It seems like the typical response to these ideas is that they're some how impractical or totally out of reach. Barter skills with other professionals and remove monetary transactions from your life whenever possible. Pool skills and resources into a collective network with your friends to help reduce overall costs. Learn skills that reduce your day to day expenses and you won't have to spend as much time exchanging your life for money. It's not easy and it doesnt happen overnight but it's way more fulfilling than slaving for a corporate overlord. Advocating for change to the system is an incredibly important part of the solution because it helps lift up people with disabilities and other circumstances that keep them from attaining even partial self sufficiency but it's not the whole solution. Steps must be taken to at least…

This will be the second time in 2 months I have put in notice at my current job. The first time they offered me more money to stay with 2 weeks vacation and all that jazz, I was stupid and should have just left. I now found another position with higher pay, better opportunities, better healthcare and I know that this isn't going to be a fun conversation to have with my boss or the owner of the company. What is the best way to go about it?

I moved from the US to Canada – prior to my move, my workplace gave me a 10% raise which put my salary around $60k USD (not including bonuses, profit sharing, etc). I was hired as a remote worker about 8 months before the pandemic, even though I worked in a city my company had an office in. My office is an extremely global firm with offices in nearly every major city in the US/Europe/Asia. Now that I have moved, my new salary has been set at $70k CAD, which would put me at approximately $55k USD, basically negating the raise I was given in 2022. I have asked if there was any room for negotiation in this salary as this does set me back, but my HR rep has said that this is the normal salary for someone in my position in Canada. She did not actually answer my…