Category: Antiwork

So I started a new job in a small design and manufacturing business, and while it is in an industry I like the pressure is huge. The business is hanging by a thread with payments and has a liquidity ratio of 0.4 (This measures how much it could pay off a months expenses in one go with 1 being 1 month) the fact that our company can barely cover 2 weeks of expenses while also selectively not issuing payment until being threatened with legal action disturbed me greatly. I decided to ask a couple of CEO's of sub 100 employee companies on LinkedIn their thoughts on this. One replied, here was his answer: “Hi X this kind of practice is common, it isn't good but more prevalent since covid. The main reason is often because their own clients do this too. Like a knock on effect. ” This horrifies me.…

As the title reads, my manager keeps trying to change my schedule outside of my availability. I'm not sure if this is a good place to ask for advice, but idk where else to post this. He's known about my availability for months now, and this is the second time he has tried to do this (the first time resulting in me calling off those days). I just tried to talk to him before he left for the day but all I got was a dry “well I don't know what your gonna do” and a “I can try to transfer you to a different store”. He knows I cant work another store as I have no transportation other than walking, and it's already a three mile walk. Thanks in advance for any advice people are able to give, it's greatly appreciated.

My employer just recently posted a sign over the clock in machine saying they will no longer pay you for 5 days if you are sick with covid. The reason they were originally paying us when we were out was to justify that they didn't give us Hazzard pay like literally every other retail store in the area. I guess they just expect us to work while we are sick and dying now.

I work at a daycare, which is extremely shitty work conditions to begin but here’s my question. I’ve been continuously working overtime since I started, and am not getting paid for it. Around 48 hours a week sometimes more, sometimes less. My boss is saying overtime ONLY kicks in at 42.5 hours because we get a 30 minute paid lunch, so her logic is that those paid lunches, since we’re “not technically working and “can leave,” (even though that’s bullshit because it takes 15 minutes to get to anything nearby) count into our “regularly scheduled hours.” Is this legal and allowed? For reference, I’m in WA state. Regardless, I’m trying to get back pay from them because I’ve never been paid overtime rates for hours worked above 42.5.

This show just launched on Apple TV. I am lost for words. Its the gross nightmare world corporations will go to, to ensure its employees are the perfect working automatons, who bring no baggage from the outside. I have a feeling this show will be heavily discussed shortly. As of this posting I am thru the first episode and a half.