Category: Antiwork

I have always wanted to restart my business. I had a t-shirt shop years ago that went belly up. I had to take a night time job to keep my shop afloat for 6 years, then I got married and gave it up. I would like to try again, but I would like to be able to do it in a way that is fair to the employees. (I couldn't afford employees in the first business). So if I try again, and get successful enough to hire employees, how do I make it fair for them, and how do I pre-emptively safeguard them if I ever turned greedy? I hope it would never come to that, but I am human. I'm sure every corporate person started out trying to be decent to their workers, but the greed bug bit them.

This might be a stupid question… I've only discovered this rad sub a few months ago and love it… but how do y'all afford to quit your jobs? I see tons of people quitting and encouraging others to quit, but I don't understand how people are surviving without making a salary. Unemployment is not enough to live on where I am (it WAS during Covid because of the extra amount coming in, but would definitely not be without that additional amount). Like… HOW? What are you doing for money after you quit your job? I'm not a minimum-wage worker, I've been working full time for 10+ years, I finally started renting my own apartment without roommates after age 30, so I'm paying for the whole thing myself. My salary would seem high to some but is absolutely not high for the cost of living where I am. I have an…

A few years ago I was doing work experience in a small multi million pound finance company. I seen the soap in the toilets was running very low,.So told the manger, she just watered it down. By end of the next day soap had completely run out. I told manager. She said she would get some more. Later used facilities – no soap. no soap in men's or kitchen either. No one seemed to care apart from me. Was a supermarket at end of the street to buy soap. I was.like I'm not paying!! I lived a few buildings away, so I just ran home every time I needed the loo during working hours. Kept checking soap situation. It took them seven working days to get soap put in the men's and women's toilets. No one washed hands properly that whole time, and no one cared. Absolutely disgusting!!! just thought…

I work in security and I get plenty of overtime. I normally work 40 hours a week sometimes but even that is way too much for me. I have done weeks where I did 12 hour shifts in a 5 day period sometimes 2 weeks in a row. Normally I would get to go home early on Friday in the afternoon. But for the last few weeks they have been asking me to work later. I'm just sick of doing OT and I just want to get off when I'm supposed to.

I've interviewed at a few jobs today, haven't gotten offers yet but I except to get at least one. How can I slyly ask when my annual bonus will pay out? Any tips or tricks?

Now is the best time to straight up quit your job and start your own venture. Making money for someone else will never feel good in an economy that was founded on slavery and to this day hasn't figured out how to properly compensate workers. Start your own venture and eventually become the employer that you want to see. These companies are moving towards automation anyway. I worked in the corporate world for years and never felt the satisfaction I feel from working for myself. I want to hire employees but will do the work myself until I am able to compensate them in a way that will benefit them. We can't keep doing the same things and expect different results. It is our responsibility to change the world in some way for the better. Good luck to everyone. Have a great day.

Ever notice the Amazon employment ads that tout the pay, medical, dental and paid days off? Only to post size 4 white font that says “for full time employees”? Why not say it in big black bold letters?

the thing is whenever i argue with my friend that how Big companies like Amazon, Tesla, Nestle etc, are exploiting its workers, he argue “but at least they got them jobs. without them, they are jobless” . i can punch him on his face but i don't know how to argue logically

Hello to everybody, I work for a big company (around 1000 people on the site, over 5000 globaly) in the shipping department. I started 6 months ago, during this time I took the job of 3 people that exited in the meanwhile, 2 of them for retirement and as far as I know the company policy is to not hire new people to keep costs low. Yesterday my 2 managers told me that I am doing a great job, and after a lot of compliments they told me that want to keep me with a long term contract without telling anything about the terms, so I guess paycheck will be the same. I was happy about the news and didn't had the courage to ask about the terms of the new contract. ( I also didn't expect this news rightnow since my contract was due next month, so I wasn't…

So I was due for a raise on Dec 7th 2021. The raise discussed was a 2 dollar one from 13 to 15 per hour. On Dec 7th they said my raise was post poned because the date for it is “too close to the time of yearly evals” and that I'd have to wait for my eval. And that would happen in January. A week before Christmas they tell us that the insurance changed and now we have to pay 40% of the rate. They cover 60% they gave us a .80 raise to incentivice people working overtime to fully cover their 40%. We used to get health insurance for free unless it was a family plan. They end of January comes with many excuses as to why I haven't had an eval. Promising me im on the top of the list. I wasn't. I didn't get my eval…