Category: Antiwork
After lurking on here for a while I finally got fed up with the way my job (IT technician) was treating me both in pay and workload. Came to find out others hired in around the same time as me with similar backgrounds were making $24 off the bat to my $18. And started looking around and applying to other jobs in the area. I met with and demanded a raise to at least $24 to bring me up to the current market rate in my area and was told that I need to 'Consider if the company was the right fit for me'. This was on Tuesday morning on the 15th. Well today I just got a job offer after interviewing yesterday morning for $25 an hour and full benefits. Oh and support scope is a whopping 60 or so devices compared to the ~1600 I was primarily supporting…
Sometimes, I look at articles from capitalist and conservative sources, just to understand the enemy so to speak. What's interesting is how often they recognize the same facts we do, but from the perspective of evil. Take this article:https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/239034 From the first paragraph, this guy says the same things Marxists do: That the workers and owners have fundamentally different interests. No illusion of benevolent paternalism here: This ghoul knows that the best case scenario for him is often the worse case scenario for the employees. What can we take away from this? It's a helpful reminder that conflict theory is right and that our bosses really don't have good intentions towards us.
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Good bye Prime Membership
They're obscuring the fact that the issues are systemic- not just a matter of good and bad bosses. Kinda like the whole “bad apple” thing when it comes to cops. Even the best companies steal your surplus value and half your waking hours.
I see a lot of people asking “what work should I do?” Well if you hate minimum wage and have half a brain and can work in an office – take a civil service test. Depending on your state you can get a state job, good benefits, etc. Taking one saved my life. I was bummed out working 65 hours a week at a dogshit manufacturing warehouse, then I got a call and my whole life changed. Now I am salaried, make around 60k/year, have great benefits, have a union, and can move up easily – and I don’t really work hard at all – Zero stress. Look into it on your state’s webpage. Edit: oh yeah and currently my sick time is at 310hrs vacation 260hrs, and then another 50 hours for personal/holidays. As far as I’m concerned all of you deserve to have that much PTO.
