Category: Antiwork

Given all of the spectacular budgets that have been shown on news outlets, I thought I’d share my actual one. Making 97.5k, as a single 26yo male living in a studio without splitting rent, my budget is the below: Rent: $1,700 Renter’s Insurance: $10 Car Payment: $330 Car Insurance: $140 Phone Bill: $150 Utilities: $60 (water covered by landlord and climate doesn’t get too hot or too cold most of the year) Internet: $70 Student Loans: $950 Subscriptions: $80 Food: $600 (groceries/eating out [which I don’t do often]) Gas: $120 Investment: $200 Entertainment: $250 Insurance: $100 (this is pre-tax and I pay for a dirt cheap insurance since I never go in. It will likely come back to haunt me given the medical system but oh well for now) 401k: $570 (pre-tax) Gross Monthly Income: $8,150 Pre-Tax Deductions: $670 Net Monthly Paycheck: $5,220 Total Spending: $4,660 (Amounts out of net…

I work for Natural Grocers, a middle sized chain of health food stores in the US. Over the past couple months, we've received several raises, along with the announcement of an employee appreciation month for Febuary. We've been lavished with free food, novelty company hats and scarves, coupon books, etc. Today, middle management (dept managers, assistant dept managers, etc) received a notification that NG is launching “union awareness” training modules at the end of the month. I'm assuming this, the novelty gifts, and extremely late raises (we are only just now as of this week competitive in wages with other grocery stores in town) are attempts to stop more people from leaving due to the understaffing, poor scheduling, poor pay, immense workloads, dirty working conditions, and so on that plague the grocery industry, and our company specifically. Although we can see the module on our training website, it isn't accessible…

A month ago my office experience a surge of Covid. Nearly everyone got sick. I was exposed by my employer, became ill, and needed to use a week of PTO. I only accumulate only 2 weeks a year. This is right before my wedding which will take a week honeymoon and a few days of vender meet ups, so I will be in a PTO deficit due to this whole debacle. When I tell recruiters this they are flabbergasted that my company was so apathetic to exposing me to Covid and using my personal PTO days to compensate their lack of planning. I’m looking at new positions. One position is offering an additional $5k, financial analyst, great experience, a field that is more lucrative, and room for advancement because it is large. It is hybrid after the first 4 months. The second is the field I am already in, senior…

So I quit my job last April on really bad terms just walked out and said I quit and it really upset my bosses at the time. They were bitter about it and didn’t pay me out my retirement till 6 months later but now they haven’t given me my W2 even though the employees that are there have already got there’s is there anything I can do besides going to there office and demanding it? I know that’s what they want me to do but I don’t wanna play there petty games.

Help. I reported a bunch of cyber bullying to my school. The principal knew I was going to. She said under Mahoney Area School District v B. L., the school can't touch private social media. I reported a bunch of content posted by students taken on school property, featuring the school name and logo. I also reported it because specific groups in a protected class (LGBT+) are heavily targeted and I figured out what students are doing it. These actions are not protected by that case. Two days later, administration has severe concerns about my ability to function in the school. They say the person I was supposed to be working with today does not trust me and wants me removed. There have been multiple staff members who requested I not work with them because I am more of a problem than a help. The only examples are months old…

I’m a middle manager, I’m burnt out, my team is burnt out, and we’re all just trying to look for something that makes all of this effort worth it. I was hopeful that we’d be given a budget that would allow us to pay our teams a little better. Like many companies out there, we beat all expectations in profits and should be more than capable of giving out another few hundred dollars per person in terms of salary (not a one time bonus, since that does nothing long-term). So here I am about to conduct performance reviews, and I’m going to have to tell my top rated employees that despite how well they performed, even after pulling money away from other people’s increases, they’re still going to fall under inflation for this year, and ultimately make less this next year. Being on this side, I finally see why middle…