Category: Antiwork

I'm new to the Antiwork sub, but I was hoping to get some input on this matter. So I've been a part of this company for a year now. Everything has been fine. No major complaints. But we got a new Manager recently. She's all about getting things done and has been the best manager thus far…but her boyfriend got hired on at the same time. He's a nice guy, but he hasn't even been here a year yet and he's already gotten a work vehicle, all his tools, and two certifications, and he got turned loose with no supervision. (A side note ~ he hasn't done this work before) I was just able to get my first certification, but I still don't have a work vehicle, and I'm still a helper. Another thing – He acts like he has some sort of special authority and holds secret information since…

I see a ton of posts about businesses needing to raise their prices to be able to support their wages. I am an accountant for a business in the hospitality industry. We raised our wages because we want to give a fair wage. But, COGS is rising and we can't raise our prices because it would become too expensive and would cost us business. I am 100% on board with if you can't support to pay employees a fair wage, you should close down. But what happens when these companies close down because they can't afford to pay their employees a livable wage because living expenses are rising and the only companies who survived are companies like Amazon who are the problem to begin with? Does that make sense? I've been thinking about this for months and haven't been able to figure out how to research it.

Get off the chair and do something.

I like reading this sub, but I've never participated before this post. I feel compelled to address the “boomers suck” attitude I see here too often. Boomers don't suck. Assholes suck. I'm retired, in my late sixties. Friends in my age group, the people I know, the people I've hung with since elementary and high school, the people I've met on the road and lived with on communes, the people I've worked with (education) are for the most part pretty cool. We volunteer. We still support workers and unions and we tip very well. We remember our fights years ago in support of farmworkers and other oppressed groups. We're online now and we counter and argue with the MAGA-types and their weird conspiracy theories (although that is proving fruitless). And do you know who we're arguing with? They aren't grouped by age. Along with people in our age group, there…