Category: Antiwork

Can someone smarter than me create a website? How many people realistically could we get to join? Instead of just shouting into the void let's do something. I consider anything below 20 an hour a low wage. We all know and see it everyday, the lowest paid workers are the ones who do the hardest labor. I'm tired of going into work and seeing my coworkers pretend everything is ok. I know 90% of them are living paycheck to paycheck. How long are we going to let a small minority of the population steal the majority of the profit that we produce? Just so they can flex on the rest of us.

I work at a small cafe inside a hotel in the front. My duties are making coffee, light cooking and using the register. I work in California so the job is strictly 5-6 hours, no overtime ever. And Cali is super expensive so I don't rely just on this job. At the beginning I liked it and I was working with this girl who seemed that she quit today. (Didn't show up) The place is a hit or miss, sometimes is super busy, sometimes is not. So the girl I was working with started complaining how we don't get enough tips from having 3 of us total now. I knew sooner or later she was gonna get another job and yeah didn't show up today. Meanwhile she didn't come Friday and it was super busy and I had my other coworker bitching. I can't do 3 things at once, run…

I accidentally clocked in an hour late today, so I went in our system to change it (its a small business and our system is left on admin), only to find my clock in time for Saturday was changed from 11 AM to 2 PM. I don't even have the words to describe how I am feeling right now. Just needed to vent somewhere. There are some odd circumstances that make this (almost) excusable, except for the fact that I was never contacted about the issue. Essentially I am working “two” jobs right now, one hourly and one commission, both at the same business, and I am supposed to clock out when I am doing the commission work. The hiccup here is that there is still work on the hourly side that I occasionally have to step out and do during my commission work. (Dealing with phones, customer walk ins,…