Category: Antiwork

Wondering b/c minimum wage might be dependent on that?

It’s simple, but it sure as fuck isn’t easy. But it really is simple! If you’re in your 20s and don’t have kids, the biggest thing you can do for yourself is to go wherever the work is. You have a crappy barista job? Answer the phone at a towing company? Enter data for some random company that pays too little and forces you to commute? Well… there are a shitload of places in the country. Yeah, it sucks to move to a little town in flyover country just so you can afford life. But you aren’t going to be 25 forever. One day you’ll be 45 and it will seem like you just blinked and became middle-aged. Would you rather have a healthy life in a town of 30k, or a shared apartment in a city of 3 million? Do the math, people: if you work from 20 years…

Hello Reddit, I live in WA State and yesterday I learned my employer overpaid me for 9 extra shifts I worked since October 2022. When I received my November 2022 paycheck, I noticed the discrepancy between my usual per diem rate and the extra substitute work rate and immediately contacted HR/Payroll. I was informed that my 'base salary does not include the other portions of my monthly salary.  The hourly substitute rate is a separate negotiated salary schedule based on the positions.' It turns out I was given the wrong info in Nov 2022 and was quoted the language in our contract that stipulates I should have been paid my usual per diem rate. While I wish I had been more familiar with the contract at that point, I obviously feel like payroll/HR/whoever should honor what they paid in error and rectify the issue from here on. Especially since I tried…

I worked in at local firm busting my ass doing extra work thinking I would be rewarded. My manager said he was pulling for a promotion and got it but couldn’t get the salary to go with it. It was budgetary reasons. He told me I would get it eventually but in the mean time the new title would look good on a resume and show my progress. Well I thought of him as a friend and he was looking out for me. Well I found out when I put in my notice and moved on to another job he was actually passing off the work I was doing as his own, and a family friend that worked with us. All the projects, extra work, long nights and weekends, and holidays where I was “the man” for working so much… he was telling management a different story. How did did…

I didn't think it would happen to me, but it finally has. Background. I work in the funeral business for a large (unnamed) corporate funeral company. My job role includes arranging the funeral and dealing directly with clients, as well as bearing on funeral services, driving the ambulance and assisting in the mortuary. I'm the versatile Jack of all, master of none. Anyway, we all received an email from boss man this Friday, informing us that we've all worked so hard this year, and to celebrate, we will be closing our 6 connected funeral homes in the region early one afternoon and enjoy some bowling, food and drink, all paid for by the company. Keep in mind, this is a funeral home, not a KFCs, and the average age of our staff is around 50. None of us are minimum wage teenagers. I've been informed that the budget is £30…