Category: Antiwork

Today my coworker accidentally left a copy of her W2 at the bottom of a stack of paperwork she gave. She has the same exact job title as me and 20 years of seniority on me at our employer and she is paid nearly $15,000 less than me per year. I truly believe if companies were required to have salary transparency today we'd all unionize tomorrow. And also I'm angry for her. I kinda want to tell her.

I’m leaving my corporate job. I don’t fit into this world. The reality has sunk in. I find it incredibly fake, all of the pointless meetings, contributing to birthdays for people I speak to once a month, pressure to “go above and beyond” and join pointless committees like a recycling committee, cliquey groups and my goodness the amount of brown nosing, kissing ass and sucking up … I simply can’t bring myself to do it. I see how some of my peers have climbed the ladder, they are on their emails at 11pm at night, they are competitive, ruthless and very cleverly plant the seed of doubt in their bosses heads that other people in the team aren’t very good or innocently say “ oh __ forgot to do that, so I took the initiative and did it”. These people are not your friends, you have to spend your own…

I’m going to start a new job next week, and I just got a list of a bunch of (mostly BS) rules. The one that stuck out to me the most was that “we do NOT talk about pay rates in our store with other employees as to not cause animosity.” This is unlawful, and I don’t see how they will enforce this besides finding some other reason to fire you. What are you actually supposed to do in this situation? The amount being paid seems to vary with vague guidelines of “what you bring to the table”. Starting pay is a bit above minimum wage, and this is just something I need to pay the bills until I get a job in my degree’s field. I don’t want to cause trouble, but it sure as hell doesn’t sit right with me.