Category: Antiwork

America’s lack of family leave policies is bull. Neither my husband nor I get any family leave benefits from our jobs. We’ve been scrimping and scraping to save enough money for me to take 2 months off work and him 2 weeks. Just enough to pay our bills, nothing left over, and be able to have some bonding time with our son due in 3 weeks. We did our taxes this weekend. We owe 2k$. That’s 2/3 of the money we scrimped and scraped to save. We have no way to pay but to use that money we saved. My husband will not be able to take any time off now. And I will have to return to work three weeks after delivery. Why have we been putting up with this for so long?! I can’t stand that fact that I’m stuck living in this backwards hole of a country.…

I know that this idea would be almost completely impossible to carry out, and i don't know if this is aöready a thing/an idea that is common, if it would work, etc., but i just want some thoughts on this idea. What if there was an organization in America or any other country where, any adult can sign up for this organization, and it would be completely free to join and have no direct downside for the time being. The goal of the organization would be to achieve a membership of something around 50% of the population, so it would have to be massive and have widespread support, but let's assume it somehow gets this. The point would be to make a set of demands to the corporations in the area, such as, higher pay, no price raises as a result of it, certain workers rights things, etc. The only…

So the title says most of it. I'm an electrician for a small business and recently a new project manager for new construction got hired. Well there are three divisions at this company New construction, Service/Remodel, and apartments. I joined at a really turbulent time for the company in which pretty much no “good” people were getting hired.(because the owner is stingy) Well I usually have apartments to go and fix up but last week was a bit different. Every single Division lead says that I'm a great worker and that they always try to request me. Then owner noticed this an decided to give me a major bump in responsibility and pay. When I don't have apartments I usually get sent to a service call or put on new construction but when I get apartments I can leave at my discretion. I called out on Tuesday last week and…

Currently, he's a driver for a company. To my knowledge, there are designated drivers for the routes and they have to get the work done….or so it seemed. He has worked for this company for upwards of 5+ years. Always been on time, and never really called off sick unless he has to. He works a weird shift and I won't give the exact hours, but something like 1230AM to 10AM per week day. Over the course of this whenever he was severely ill his boss would guilt trip him. Saying stuff like “if you don't come in we have nobody else to do your route” even though, mind you, he was a backup driver before his legit route. This was at least 2 years ago, and to my knowledge they haven't hired a replacement backup driver Anyway, his wife got covid and so did he. They're both okay, but…

Title pretty much explains it. I get where everyone is coming from in terms of getting treated with respect, pay, and all of that. But what else makes a job/company attractive in this environment. Honestly looking for feedback.

Your company has plans to return to the office soon? If you want to continue working from home, will you be able to continue doing so?

I work in the manufacturing industry with about 10 years in the field now. Worked for a very well known automotive brand as a manufacturing engineer. First job. Ok pay but really bad work environment. Left that job last year for a much better offering from another company that approached me. Last place of work was extremely toxic and pretty much ruled by one manager who clawed his way up the ladder through the years. Typical shitty middle manager attitude towards employees. Complains a lot and never praises or appreciate the work put in. Constantly played favorites and found ways to screw over anyone that went against his ideas. Very loud with his words but that didn't reflect in his actions. I worked there for a while as it was my first job and I felt obligated to hang around because this manager kept feeding us with how it's bad…