Category: Antiwork

tl;dr: Corporate has been hyping up a big raise for a year now which turned out to be shit. A lot of tenured staff are still below the company-set minimum pay threshold for their role and feel betrayed and are at risk of walking out. We’re all pissed over at r/petco! Here’s the rundown: Last year Petco announced they were raising their minimum wage to $15/hr and adjusting other pay scales accordingly. That’s great! They could’ve left it there. Did they? No! Instead they repeatedly told the more tenured staff they would be receiving a compression raise to offset the discrepancy in pay given their years of experience. This raise was a carrot they dangled in front of us for a year now, and was hyped up to be something to really look forward to. Was it worth it? No! You were lucky to qualify for a raise at all,…

I requested a day off to take my firearm permit exam to become an armed security guard. My boss said to not return to work until June 11th. This suspension will be unpaid and I don’t know what to do as I am currently living paycheck to paycheck.

I see posts made here in anger of “Oh God! Everything is so horrible! We need to strike or do something!” with a lot of people responding with “Sure, but until real change occurs/someone has a real plan, this is just complaining.” So, here's my ask: what would be needed for real change to occur? How can we organize? Do we form a new political party? Make flyers? Start organizing donation centers for people can strike?

A few months ago I heard someone say that in the near future they think we're going to evolve beyond money, and I've been thinking about that ever since. What do you think that would look like?

I am not the one being investigated. My longtime coworker who is old enough to retire but must keep working out of necessity is being interviewed next week for failure to perform assigned duties. I would like to help him prepare for the interview. For context, he’s a union employee and this is the only employer he’s had for the last thirty years. The direct manager and department head have changed and almost immediately began assigning duties with little guidance and unreasonable expectations and timelines. Then came the oral warning from his boss. Then the email, followed by a plan of improvement, followed by a doc in pay and now a formal in-person investigation/ interview by HR. He can have a union representative but that rep. cannot ask or answer on his behalf, he is allowed to ask questions to the rep. I want to tell him this is not…