Category: Antiwork

I’m getting ready to put my two weeks in at my job because I was lucky enough to be recruited to one that’s going to increase my salary by $16k (!!! If that shows you how underpaid I was). When I was talking with people who have already left this company, I found out something horrifying: one person was missing hundreds of dollars from their last paycheck, and another spent 1.5 years during his time employed there fighting for the $17,000 he was owed!! A close coworker also let me know she battled for 3 months to get the $3k commission she was owed. I’m fully aware that they’re going to try to screw me out of my money, but how do I prepare for this? Should I preemptively schedule a meeting with our financial guy to walk through my last paycheck? Or do I just wait until it happens…

My company just had some turnover. There's 8 of us total, and 2 left (and I don't blame them) so in the last 2 months we've had 2 new hires. I've been working as a security guard for over 4 years, but just under a year at my current assignment. When I interviewed, I asked the supervisor if I could get bumped to 12 (which is still shit) since I had experience, she said “hard no” We'll both new hires said when they came in “I won't work for 11.50, can you make it 12?” And she played it. I got a 3% raise in January which bumped me up to 11.83. These new cats are making more than me, this company doesn't care and I am so fed up. Company is allied universal if ya wanna know.

As of late I noticed when searching for remote jobs, some will say “remote” or “work from home” then you click on it and read the job description, and suddenly it says “this is an in-office position”. Or one of the employer questions is “Are you able to reliably commute to our office, or are you able to relocate?” Are they doing this just to draw people to the posting to increase the number of applicants whether they extend a potential job offer or not? For the record, the job platform I am using is Indeed. Edit: I am not talking about jobs that clearly outline that there is an OPTION to work remotely after training, or ones that clearly specify it is a hybrid position. These postings are specifically labeled as remote by Indeed or will say “Work From Home” in the title, then the job description says otherwise…

So as the title says, my job caused me so much stress and anxiety that I ended up having an “acute psychiatric emergency” and had to be hospitalized. Backstory: I started working for this non-profit in June of last year. It was contracted through one of the HS in my city so he had like a lot of summer activities before we actually went into the office with each other. Also it was a really small team, only 10 of us. Another important detail is that I’m Afro-Caribbean, and my team was essentially all black with the exception of one person and my boss. This is relevant because my boss was always very vocal about wanting an all black staff—despite not being black himself. So anyway, through the time I was there I really struggled with being “othered”. I was pretty consistently bullied and harassed from everything to my work…

With how bad the wage gap is, how much personal vs. corporate taxes have gone up, and going through two major recessions (so far)…I am seriously pondering the effect this is going to have on society when millennials and gen_Z start hitting retiring age.