Category: Antiwork

One morning last week, I woke up to an email from a recruiter on LinkedIn. It appeared to have landed in my inbox as if by magic. I hadn't sent in a resume or crafted a tortured cover letter. None of the usual stuff. For once, someone had approached me. I briefly talked to the recruiter on the phone, and little by little, I allowed myself to get my hopes up. The job most certainly wasn't a scam, and it would have been a huge step up, pay-wise, from what I'm doing now. For a brief second, I felt like I could breathe, like I might wind up doing something I could be proud of, the kind of job you'd assume an educated person my age would have. I surmised that I had failed their editing test almost immediately after I sent it in. It was in PDF form, which…

So I posted yesterday (check profile)if you want to see my job/pay. I feel bad for my parents like how would you react if your child started making more money than you at 16. I know people have seen my post where I say my parents make me pay rent which I understand why they make me pay rent now. I want to know what you guys would be doing if your parents made you pay rent.

Is it legal for your employer to try and force you to work extra hours? They literally keep soft threatening to no give me my well deserved raise because im not “Stepping up” enough – I.E. Im not Working more hours than im scheduled to work…Now, u may be thinking,” Well if u want more u have to work for more”…Well Ive been with my company for about 3 Years and and JUST NOW finally qualifying for a raise, And i mean, i didnt even get a cost of living raise for any of the pat years ive been at this place crazily enough. Theyre also trying to hang a promotion over my head. Heres the problem tho. someone at my job has said promotion already stacked with several raises, She has been there the same amount of time as me, Comes to work in sweatpants daily, and refused to…

Seriously. How many people here work in the service industry for example? Why not use the organization and momentum that this sub generates into the formation of a union at some point? BTW I'm not asking mods to do a single thing. Any effort should absolutely be led by users. Too difficult? Why? Just an idea.

Okay, so context: I work in a bar that has a restaurant attached to it. For the last two years we’ve been allowed to have one free shift meal. However, we’ve never been given meal breaks to eat this meal and have to do it in about 5 minutes as a barback watches the bar so we can go back to working our 6-13 hour shifts. Staff has always just put up with this because free food and the tips at this place are really good. Recently, however, we were notified that we cannot ever eat behind the bar during our shifts. (This makes sense as it’s a health code violation, but my coworker got in trouble for eating a jolly rancher when the place was empty.) So the jolly rancher has now led the owners to decide that not only are they going to take away our free meals…

Recently at a new corporate job I was given $10 on a reloadable giftcard to go to the 3rd party vending machines. They sell general gas station food and sandwiches. Creating an account for this 3rd party vendor was messed up and I had to merge two accounts I created into one. Long story short is that the initial $10 i was given never goes away in my account for whatever reason. Unlimited lunches essentially since it reloads back every day. My question is ethically what should I do and realistically can this come back to bite me even though it’s through the 3rd party? Am I stealing? Should I speak up? Thanks for any advice/help!