Category: Antiwork

At my company they sent nearly everyone who doesn’t need to work in the field on work from home. (It doesn’t apply to me since I’m a maintenance operator) I have seen a lot of posts and news articles about companies foaming at the mouth ready to bring their employees back and I don’t understand it. My company has decided that they are going to continue WFH for about 70% of our salaried employees indefinitely post pandemic. Upon doing an investigation the WFH employees have been just as productive, happy, good for moral, and have higher communication with staff in the field Because they just respond with a teams call Instead of wasting time walking to and from production areas. EDIT: they have also seen no loss in productivity without the third party software that watches you through your camera or tracks mouse activity. So the conclusion was with little…

Jobs be like how low of a price can I pay for you to be miserable 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week, great but unfortunately Joe's sense of self worth is 50 cents less and also is willing to sacrifice more of his family time, good luck finding another interview to waste a few more weeks of your time tho

I've been working at this company for over 10 years. Based on annual reviews, I have consistently outperformed my peers for the last 8 of those 10, despite increasing responsibilities. I'm described by my management as a “shining star” performer. And, during my review this week, my boss told me I was underpaid compared to my peers by a significant amount. But that there's nothing they can do about raising my pay because HR won't allow it. This week, the company announced they had made record revenues and profits. They congratulated the stockholders. They thanked their employees. I received a 4.5% raise to base pay. However, a significant part of our income comes from annual bonuses. They cut our bonuses by 25%. This means that, even before inflation, I'm taking home less money than last year. To top off the week, I'm called because I'm the only person that can…

FTR Electrical & HVAC Services violated labor laws by capping staff pay at eight hours a day, no matter how long they actually worked, the Department of Labor (DOL) said in a lawsuit first filed in May 2020. Employees regularly worked between 45 and 54 hours a week, but the company didn't pay staff extra for overtime, the DOL said.