Category: Antiwork

I (24) am a manager and I’m friends (24 & 28) with my subordinates. I’m actually open with the higher management and been telling them that I’m having a hard time keeping boundaries with my subordinates. I sometimes think that I lack leadership skills. There’s a time when I delegated a task and one of them straight up complained to me about the work that I gave (it’s not much lol). I think she’s too comfortable with me and said seriously “why don’t you do it” during work hours and I felt uncomfortable and disrespectful. I want them to see me as a friend to talk to outside work, but keep a professional setting in the workplace. I don’t want to be a “boss”, like super micromanaging them. How to set boundaries? I’ve been telling that myself multiple times, but I don’t know how to do it properly. Should I…

So turns out it’s about 17/h and lower. Don’t even have to make 40k before they can dick you on overtime. Sub embarrassed me a lil on this. I was saying it was much higher.

Full disclosure I can’t say specifics of who. I work for a large financial institute that most people probably drive in their home towns & whom most people probably owe money to through loans, bank accounts ect. And time again I hear the term “wage inflation problem” being used in the context of boosting profits in the larger companies they lend too. Im sure this is a large problem for companies but having a large finically institution finding ways to boost profits in every sector is going to drive the average worker to that beyond a wage slave, I even see it in the employees for the company (especially as you go higher through the ranks) actively talk about how they spend more time with company than their families and how they put aside their dreams in life to be a part of the giant entity that is this capitalist…

I've been a long time lurker and have connected with a few great posts in this forum. I would like to offer a humble submission, And if you words I wish I could address to my former self. It can get better, it takes time but it fucking can. Like many here I have struggled, And a great deal of that is my own fault. I have a master's degree (History and Philosophy because I fell in love with it). I was not able to make enough money as an adjunct teacher so I eventually gave that up. I have some health issues spring up on me that required a surgery I could not afford. I manage to save up enough to get the surgery about eighteen months after the latest safe date the doctor said I could. I'm ashamed to admit that I developed a terrible drug problem after…

This was my first job I have ever had. I got this part time job as a “courtesy clerk” where I would bag and take out people’s groceries. I got the job when I was in Highschool and 16. They would always hold me after hours and work in the position of grocery stocker which I had no training and was not getting paid for (the pay was higher for grocery stocker). I worked more in the stocker position than the clerk position. They did not pay me as grocery stock for the better part of a year where I was in a constant battle with management to get promoted to stocker. They would always tell me “it out of our hands” or “it up to corporate” whenever I would bring it up to them. I was finally promoted to stocker but they still would not pay me as one.…