Category: Antiwork

I'm a pilot. Specifically a charter pilot for a company doing a whole heap of medical evacuations all over my country. I havent had a full day off in months and I life in fear of checking my phone for calls from boss because I know I'm being stretched to my limit. Now I'm absolutely ok with all of this. These are trying times, I'm happy to he working… If I was being paid the correct amount. I started at this company 3 years ago, very junior but eager. Over those 3 years I've increased my qualifications and experience ten fold, to a point where I have become an integral part of the company, and alot of flights would not be able to go ahead without me. Naturally I assumed my qualifications would come with a pay rise, and according to the law, it should raise my pay by about…

This sub mentions lots of things employers do that that are illegal. Things like not paying wages for time worked, try to tell you that wages cannot be discussed etc. However, there’s never any follow ups or people telling their side of the story. Not saying it doesn’t happen but I feel like there’s this mindset that the employers can never lose and always win. Would love to see examples how that’s not true.

Like you do all the right things, work hard, step up, volunteer, tell them you want it, and they still play a shell game with you. Letting newcomers jump the line, lying and saying they have nothing until they give it to someone else. Who else has experienced this?

So I started a new job about a month ago. Asked multiple times when the health plan starts. Was told 30 days. 30 days pass. They said sorry it starts March. Your hire date was Jan 3rd, so you won't be enrolled for another 30 days. I asked, why wasn't that brought up to me earlier? We all agreed on my hire date since I gave two weeks and it was the holidays. They said they wouldn't have had me start during that time anyway. So now my wife and I uninsured for two months. There solution was to convince her to find a better job. (She doesn't have benefits and the employer doesn't contribute to my spouses portion of the plan). The whole situation is fucked up. My boss (who's middle management) asked me what I was going to do and my reply was hopefully I avoid a major…

I had worked for a law firm for over a year. I started off as a file clerk and helped other co-workers around the office in the beginning. Because of my journalism background, they assigned me to talk to every client to get their narrative about what they had gone through in their experience in wildfires. I really did love this job. I was helping their clients cope with the loss they had experienced in wildfires. I worked overtime and tried to show that I was a hard worker, that I was capable to handle any assignment that my boss gave me. Eventually, I was promoted and was told by my boss that he wanted to extend my employment longer than we had agreed. A year into being employed my boss retired and had his daughter take slowly take over. We got along just fine (as a boss and employee…

Don’t get me wrong the occasional good job and thank you’s are okay at times. But recently, my job has been real hectic (ISP tier 1 and having lot of outages in different areas) and there is nothing more aggravating of just getting bombed with calls all day just to keep receiving the same generic (thank you, good job, you’re great team!). At this point I just want to tell them to shut the fuck up and put in more things in place to prevent call queue from exploding.

How did that work out for you? Just curious