I (19f) worked at McDonald's for a year, from 2019 to 2020, quit just before covid started. My boyfriend and I both worked there and we would generally work longer than normal for almost every shift (an hour or two extra). Not only because they were so short-staffed and desparate, but also so we could carpool home after. The day I quit, both of us had been asked to come in early, and had been asked to stay an hour or so later due to a surplus of people calling out. We didn't mind the extra time so we accepted. After working for nearly 11 hours with no break and no food, I felt like absolute shit. It was around 11:30pm and I remember that they scheduled me for 7am the following morning. I was pretty upset that they had called us in knowing they wouldn't be able to provide…
Category: Antiwork
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps
Inflation Salary Negotiations
I have a review coming up and I agreed to a salary position in Accounting, for a small business. I believe I have been doing great work for the company and I will have a review coming up. I would like to negotiate a raise and my question is should I ask for the bare minimum of a 7% raise of my salary due to inflation in 2021? Since technically I didn't get paid what I agreed on since inflation changed my salary's worth? Or is this just a “stupid” arguing point to try and use since inflation is just a part of life?
Losing Faith in Finding a Job?
So I have been wondering for a while if the whole “Urgently Hiring” sign or quote is legitimate or not in practice. Allow me to explain. I have been out of work for a while, but have constructed my resume well (even with outside instruction on the format of it). It's a complete resume and there's no red flags from what I can read that would bar me from finding a job. Clean record, no offences at work or anything like that. Though working generally sucks, you gotta do what you can to cover the bills. However, regardless of my fair experience and work ethic; I also tend to interview decently without saying too much, I still can't lock down job. For a work market that claims to be struggling and in dire need of workers, it seems like it's impossible to secure a basic wage job. Anyone else have…
Progressive Insurance co
I worked for Progressive Insurance as a sales representative for a few years. There were countless stories that could make the front page of r/antiwork. One that comes to mind was when the company finally hit the $20 billion mark and they came around and layed decorated cookies on our desk. Quietly as to not interrupt our peaceful work. “You made $20 billion dollars?”, “here's a cookie”. Once, during employee appreciation week they handed out the little bags of chips and water. Good times!!
50/50 It’s what’s fair
Player's unions for organizations like the NBA, NFL and NHL, parce out half of the income revenue to their players, and each player is given what they have negotiated for and their negotiations are based on how much money that player brings to the organization that owns the team, or somethingto that effect. I might be wrong about that but as far as the arguments in the class action lawsuit against the UFC, that reasoning was sited as an example of why the fighters should be paid their fair share. 50/50 makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not at all a financial expert, but this makes sense to me I'm kinda hopinf this community will poke holes in the idea so I can shore it up. For large companies (I picked an arbitrary number of 100 or more employees for no real reason) half the of income revenue…