Category: Antiwork

Hi all- long time lurker first time poster. Well today it happened to me: at my part time job before I went in my boss called and said I should not be discussing my salary with others and that she was upset I told another person how much I made and that said person is asking for a $2 raise now and it’s my fault. I work as a receptionist- it’s really not that big of a deal imo. I then asked her for this in writing and she acted astounded why I would ask for such a thing. I said she just violated federal law and quit on the spot. My question is do I have any grounds to file with the DOL if it was verbally threatened? Other things they have done that added to my instant quit: Taken away commission earned bc they didn’t like smaller things…

Frito-Lay in CT has changed drastically in the last decade, becoming more and more hostile towards employee's. When first looking for a job there it was simple, put in an application and if you got hired it was full-time. Eventually they changed the hiring practices about 9 years ago to you start as part-time and could bid to become full-time as postions opened up. This formula changed again to you got hired as a temp worker for 90 days and then you would become part-time with ability to bid on full-time jobs. It has rapidly become worse since that desicion because of overtime rules. As a temp worker you could be forced to work OT, as much as 28 extra hours a week over your 40. So you start as a temp with outlandish amounts of overtime, making decent money to part-time with a cap of 30 total hours until…

I was born and living in eastern Europe, and kinda raised watching much of American movies ( as all my generation of 90s kids). The majority of my friends were dreaming to somehow end up in the United States, as movies portrayed stress free life, cool cars and a powerful government which cares about its people. So now, I have grown up, and read all these posts about disaster conditions, I think my country is NOT that bad. Medical insurance is much better, working conditions are better. It's like knowing that Santa does not exist anymore. Stay strong.

I started a new job last August and for once it's a great fit for me personally. While I did get a raise, there still wasn't a salary range on the job posting. I look at jobs in my area all the time just to see what the job market is like. It blows me away that companies do not have to post what the salary range is. I personally think it should be required.

I’m sorry but I don’t know why it’s such a big deal if employees are on there phones or talking to each other during down time I want to Point out a extremely good reason why it’s completely acceptable for people do as they please during the 5-10 minute downtimes people normally have during there work day (and honestly I’m surprised this sub hasn’t brought up this fact for any other argument yet either) It takes me a hour to get ready for work a hour to drive to work and another hour to drive back home and I feel this is pretty average for most people…..that’s 3 whole hours of my life every day I work that’s unpaid for that involves working or preparing to work for my company 🤮 With that and that alone I don’t understand why we still allow the “your on company’s time” mentality finally…

So I manage a very small team and I just finished their annual reviews and it’s time to dole out merit increases and yep, it’s 3% per employee unless I decide to give some more than others. With inflation at 7% (or at 15% or more depending on if you use old ‘80s metrics before the govt started manipulating data to make things seem not so bad), anything less is essentially a paycut. Of course 3% is better than zero, but with everything we’re being asked to do more with less, the rising cost of gas and food, and the pressure from senior leadership to get butts back in seats, it’s just extremely de-motivating. My other peer managers give me Pikachu faces whenever I tell them about inflation, and then we wonder why our teammates are leaving in droves for better pay and remote opportunities. It’s gonna be a long…

The whole terminology of “right to work” was lifted straight out of the union-busting playbook. Let’s start to call these policies what they really are: pro-employer and anti-worker. You have a right to organize, and anti-worker laws just make it easier for them to fire anyone associated with labor organizing. Funny how the “right to work” disappears any time you try to organize. So stop calling it that.