Category: Antiwork

To sum this shit up. Moved to a new employer “Growing Company” bullshit. I’m in management (Salary). First 90 days are Mandated 6 days a week, scheduled 9 hour shifts. With meetings outside of scheduled hours as well. After my 90 days, my days off are split Fridays and Sundays. With meeting always on my Friday day off. I was initially told my Saturday shift was only 5 hours. However when the time came after my 90 days. They made it seem like I made that shit up and said, “No you work a full shift”. I was like… weird Weeks later, my counterpart saw me on a Saturday and to their surprise I was working. And they also confirmed my initial belief which was told to me during my interview and orientation. So again I asked and got gaslighted to oblivion. Months later, I pull up the schedule for…

I've been seeing this a lot lately. There are a ton of people in this sub who think that their lives are being made more difficult by hard-working coworkers. The most commonly regurgitated sentiment is “Hard work isn't rewarded with anything except more work, and you're just making all the rest of us look bad! Stop being a boot licker!” First of all, you have to understand that some people are naturally inclined to work hard. It's in their nature, and they hold the belief that the harder they work, the more good things will happen to them. And guess what? That's their belief, regardless of whether or not it's true, and it's not your place to try and change that belief or their hard-working nature. Let people be who they want to be. Life is about trying to be the best possible version of yourself, and for some people…

So I was at a sales manager position for this big big company that works on retail. Well in retail isn't doing that good (After like 4 years of non-stop record breaking annual revenue) 2023 hasn't been that good (as what inverstors thought it'd be. So one branch (where I was working) was schedules to close but with the promise of everyone in it being transferred to other stores. This has happened sometime before and the company has kept it's promise of relocating everyone. When there were like two months lefts to the closing date I started asking questions of 'where' l. All I got was “when there is one month left you'll know”, “When there are two weeks left…”, “The same week of closure ” and so on but everytime they kept promising there was nothing to worry about. During this period of time my team's morale and mental…

I scored a 3.9/5. I was offered a 3.5% raise, which is standard. Was told I'm irreplacable. Tell me your score and your raise so we have data on how these assholes are paying us vs. rating us.

I am scaling up my business this year, beginning with an intern who is coming on while she finishes the last three months of her doctoral program. Compensation is not allowed during this time and there are strict rules around monetary gifts, but I do plan to offer top tier salary and full benefits as soon as she graduates. I'm building our company culture and I want the setting to reflect this as soon as she starts interning. I plan to have plenty of snacks and drinks on hand and will encourage her to spruce up her workspace on the company dime, but wondering what other gestures/perks I could put in place. I don't have the budget to go full-Google with pinball, shaved ice machine, etc., but what else is on the cutting edge of modern workplaces these days? Thanks for any help!

Living Wage & Quality Of LIfe Parameters Living Wage: That changes with Inflation to always indicate an actual Living Wage defined by a predetermined quality of life parameters. When any parameter goes up in price, there is an instant equal response to the Minimum Wage. Minimal Housing Standards: Every full time worker should be able to afford to live without roommates. Every full time worker should be able to afford buying at least a 2 bedroom home a half an hour drive away from work. Healthy Diet: A full time worker should be able to afford organic local food. Plus going out to local restaurants a couple times a week. Transportation: Full time workers should be able to afford a low priced new car. When Transportation takes too long, it’s like a tax on the poor! Vacation/Time Off/Work Life Balance: How many days a year should someone work? How much…

Know Your Enemy People Vs Oppressors Is A Different Kind Of Problem: I normally work on Ideal Solutions and stay away from talking about the problems as much. I feel so many of these problems these days are so out in the open, the only way not to know is to not pay attention or at least fully embracing their Manufactured Consent unable to break free of their cognitive dissonance. The problem is that there is not just one life altering devastation but multiple all at once. Some on accident, some on purpose all with seemingly unlimited resources. (Please note, the ones on accident are just because those adversely affected are just so insignificant your death or oppressed life is just not something they care about.) We Acclimate To Our Environment: We get caught up in adapting but all we have time to do is survive minus the thrive. We…

I live in VA where the minimum wage is $12/hr. I’ve been looking for a job for quite a while and came across the following job. A number of flags were raised for me while I read her “employment summary”. Does anyone mind reading this over and letting me know what impression you’re left with? This is the message sent to me me via text: This is our new-hire job summary, please read carefully: We're located at xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. I start everyone out on a probationary training period to assess what you know, how quickly you learn, to see how reliable you are, & if you're going to stay with us for longer than a few hours/days/weeks. Starting training pay, is $90 per day with an automatic pay raise after 90 days. I realize you have experience and operating the skid steer/forklift is a higher paid position so I'll get with…