Category: Antiwork

My company actually has decent benefits. Health insurance, raises, bonuses, all major holidays off and paid, free shoes, it’s the most of any company I’ve personally worked for. There’s just one issue. I’ve been a temp for 5 months, am way beyond my 300hr sign on period, and I keep being given the runaround for why I’m not permanent yet. Every excuse is total BS and I’ve called them out on it, but it’s always just “ok let me see what I can do and I’ll get back to you”. They never get back to me. So I get back to them, and it’s always a new BS excuse. Wash, rinse, repeat. And of course, no surprise, since I’m a temp, I get NONE of the aforementioned benefits. From the time I should’ve been signed on, I should’ve gotten new shoes, pay for Thanksgiving & the day after, Christmas Eve…

A week, two?

So I started my first office job about 4 months ago. First 2 months were ok kinda slow. The person who trained my had quit so I was kind of left on my own without anyone to monitor my work. I didn't slack or was being lazy, just not properly trained. So this coworker and I have the same job title, except she's been at the company for 4 years and therefore has more experience. She and I get called in my bosses office and boss decides to grill me and accuses me of not checking my emails. She goes over my emails and asks me what I did with them. My coworker was standing next me points out little mistakes to add even more fuel to the fire. Thats when I know she was the one to tell on me because she had access to my emails while I…

To give an overall background, I work for a medical company. A multi billion dollar medical device company. Privately owned by one person. Shit wages, like they recently raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but before that they were paying people 12, 11, even 10 an hour. So they raised the minimum to $15 an hour, but basically froze raises. They brag every chance they get about how they are becoming an xx billion dollar company by this year, how good we are doing, but pay us shit. Lots of unhappy people in the company, they are hemorrhaging workers like no other. Chick-Fil-A will pay you the same amount they will pay a machine operator with 5 years experience. I know because, well read further. Recently, as one of their tactics to keep people, they sent out an email containing a spreadsheet, that would tell you your “ACTUAL”…

I work for a startup company. I was hired to build out an entire department within about six months. To keep up with sales, I need about six people on my team. Back in November, I got approval for my first hire. It took me about two months to interview and I found the perfect candidate. I put him through about three rounds of interviews to be sure he fit in with other departments he’d be working with. I was excited to offer him the job last week and gave him both a formal call to present my offer and also sent him an email in writing, to which he accepted. When I told our CFO to send out a formalized job offer, he ghosted me for a week after multiple follow-ups. Next, less than a week before this person was supposed to start out CEO reached out to tell…

Fuck you Kevin, you are an incompetent nincompoop.

Your boss calls you, they say they have hired a new employee. You will train them on everything they need to do, then do that work for them while they sit there on their phone. You will not get paid more. You will not get more hours and if you go over your allotted hours you will not get paid for it but if you don't do all the work you will get a verbal then a write up if it comes to it. How would you describe your boss when someone asks?

The title is basically all you need to know, but here's a post I made a few days ago as well: https://np.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/sq8w6a/my_plant_manager_asked_me_in_general_conversation/ Basically, the plant manager (top dog in our facility) asked me how much it would take to take me away from them. I just really need help understanding how to approach the situation, maybe how to phrase my questions and concerns, etc. Everyone in the other thread said I need to go for it, ask for more money. I don't have a degree. That is my primary concern with asking for more money. But I do have some skills, as well as the ability to learn to do whatever needs to be done. Plus, a year and a half in, and apparently they're at least fairly content with what I've done so far. So I'm guessing they're cool with keeping me in this role? I'm just a bit…