Category: Antiwork

It's never a decent wage.

I went to Domino’s before the Super Bowl to get a couple of things for the game tonight. I walked in and they were already announcing that wait times for carry out pizzas were going to be close to three hours. Luckily, I had already ordered and it was to be ready before the game. The workers there looked tired and rundown. I saw one girl go over to the manager and ask for a break and the manager said no and this girl looked so heartbroken. She walked into the back and started answering phones so she didn’t have to see anybody upfront. A few minutes later she comes back out and talks with another coworker and starts complaining about the situation, saying it had been several hours since she had any break, and says “are they just asking me to quit?” The manager hears this and turns around…

Like Scarlett Johansson shilling for Amazon.

Curious to hear what others have to think about this idea that's been on my mind today. There are a few methods for how this could go down, but overall the idea is that that the CEO/business owner's salary is defined by an average of what the other employees think they deserve. Do you think this is doable? By what means would you measure the amount? (Percentage, fixed amount, etc.)

As the title clearly states, first of all I want to thank you all for inspiring me to play my final hand with my employer. I finish up in a week and a half, I have 60 hours of personal leave / sick leave left. I’ll be getting a doctors cert for the remainder of my time here until I finish my employment, and then take my 5 weeks of annual leave pay out after that. It means after 2.5 years of breaking myself for an essential retailer in a global pandemic, I’m taking everything I can with me when I leave. And I wouldn’t have felt comfortable doing this but this group has made me realise that my employers don’t care about me, and that most employers don’t care about any of us, and we need to get ours any way we can!

I’m a minimum wage employee at a hotel. It’s my day off and my assistant manager texts me and tells me our manager wants me to call them. I said okay, but I have no intention of calling on my day off. If I were a salaried employee I would feel compelled, alas. I am not. Am I wrong for this thinking? I suspect there will be some sort of reprimand.