Category: Antiwork

I work for a small local tech company that has a total of 8 people. Both my supervisor (40s) and the company owner( 60s) just got Peloton bikes. My supervisor said I should get one and we can all do virtual races together. I told him no, I can’t afford that, but thanks anyways. It blew his mind because I (26F) have a fiancé (28M) so we have two incomes. He only has his one income and was able to buy a house last year AND a Peloton. It’s ONLY $60 a month. It made me angry that he would say that, in addition to remarks about me not being able to afford a house in Arizona. Lol like the housing market has gone up 30-35% and my rent went up 10% last year. He knows I get paid about $37k and knows my partner works a restaurant job. It…

for misclassification and wage theft. i want everyone to know just how easy this process is. i called a lawyer, he asked me some questions, and i kind of walked him through my time at this job. at the end he told me that my boss definitely committed wage theft and misclassified me as an independent contractor. i sent him 3 years of timesheets that i kept in a google sheet, and the lawsuit is in progress. many lawyers will work on a contingency basis for cases like this. TLDR: suing a boss for misclassification and wage theft is shockingly easy

To preface this, I am in my final year of a 4 year Computer Science program at a university in the southern U.S. Essentially, all CS students have to take a required senior design project class at the end of their degrees where they are grouped with “Sponsor” companies who come to the school and interact with the students throughout the semester to complete a software development/CS related project to get “real world experience”. The company that I have been paired with is having us build an integral part of their business function in a full-stack application. My group consists of myself, 4 other students, 2-3 employees(software engineers) from the company, and occasionally the CEO is in contact. ​ While in concept this class sounds like you could get some great experience and skills out of this class, I can't help but feel as though myself and the other students…

When I was studying I worked part time at a local supermarket. I took a semester off to reevaluate what I wanted to study and ended up working full time at the supermarket for 6 months. The work was literally backbreaking, I worked from 6am till 4pm each day, 5 days a week. When I got to work I spent the first two hours packing the shelves, which had to be done by the time the store opened at 8pm. Then, the rest of the day I would drag pallets of stock out into the aisles and using a ladder carry the boxes up onto the 'picking face' (stock was kept on top of the shelves in the aisles). Every day was deja vu, I had a boss who monitored us on the cameras to make sure we were working non-stop and not talking to colleagues. Our breaks were strickly…

I want to own my own home, no mortgage, no hoa. I DO want to work, but not something that breaks me down physically or mentally. I don't want to work long stupid fuckin hours. I don't want to work five days of the week. I want to be able to afford to go on vacation once or twice a year. I want to be able to retire early, like in my late 40's – early 50's. I don't want to worry about how decisions of my bosses or government will affect my life. I don't want to deal with shitty people including customers, neighbors, co-workers, family. I don't want to buy two sets of clothing just because a t-shirt is “not professional”. I don't want to be bothered with inconveniences. I don't want to fight this fight… I'm tired. Let me live in peace and be happy. Fuck greed,…