Category: Antiwork

My boss (lets call him Gary) has been making “jokes” to customers about how I make more money than him (which is a fucking lie) and cutting my pay while I’m in the room. To paint a picture for you without being too specific, I have a technical school degree and make $5 over minimum wage and 40% commission on sales. I bring home about $600 after taxes on a good month. My boss Gary on the other hand has apparently made $3000 this month already. He gets the remaining 60% of my commission and 100% of his own sales profits go to overhead or into his pocket. His colleagues pay a larger portion of the rent than he does. He SERIOUSLY undercharges for his services compared to local competition, so if he’s struggling its nobody’s fault but his own. He has a mortgage, a few kids, and his wife…

Company gave me an option of a paid week off for spring break, but only gave me a choice of a few different weeks. Yeah I should be grateful…fuck that, I have 0 pto hours and get only accrued sick leave. I got a paid week of vacation, but give me only two weeks to choose from. I asked if I could choose a different week, they said no. Might just give them two weeks myself.

I used to get paid to take care of my mom. I stopped in August 2022. In December, I got a paystub in the app where they post paystubs showing a check for $500 that was paying out my sick PTO. I thought cool, but I was nervous because I moved and I thought they might mail it out. I called them to change the address and they confirmed it would be mailed to the new address. Not having received it, I called them today to ask if they mailed it out yet. Now they are claiming that I shouldn’t pay attention to that check stub because my PTO was paid out in November. I checked my account and it never hit. I called the bank and they never got a payment from them in November. I requested the paystub that supposedly paid my PTO in November and even though…

Filling out a state government form for utility assistance and there's a line that asks “Is anyone on strike? If yes, name of person.” Why this would be relevant? Like, if I'm striking for better work conditions, what difference does that make to a state government agency?

It came out to a 2.78% raise.

I work for a private health company that deals with people on the spectrum. My boss is a very interesting person. She does a lot of sketchy stuff and tries to get out of giving her employees benefits/pay. I’m not too worried cause I’m sure that she’s gonna get sued by one of the employees soon. I started off as data entry, in which I would copy and paste data to different websites, and then undo it because the boss lady didn’t like the way it looks or whatever reason she gave. Two months into me working there she comes to me with an offer to take the place of her HR person, and if I ran out of things to do in that position, I could come get extra hours doing data entry. I took it because I was bored. Well two weeks into being the poorly informed HR…

So I’m a low-level manager at a global manufacturing company. I disagree with how my company treats and pays its hourly associates on a whole, but one thing we do right is pay employees double for working on holidays. Supply chain demands we work on MLK day? Ok, but we’ll pay you twice as much for your hours worked that day. However, TIL staffing companies don’t pay that out. We hire through temp services meaning everyone has to work a set amount of time through a temp agency before being hired on to our company. MY company pays out holiday pay to everyone. The way temp works is we pay the temp company (plus a premium for finding the employee) and the temp company pays the employee. In summation, we pay our temp associates double time for working holidays, but the temp agencies (3 out of the 4 we employ…

I started a new job as a machinist last week and I’m on my second week and I’m already being humiliated by HR and management. Right now I’m training as a machinist, it’s 46 hours a week which I’ve never done before. I graduated college back in May and the job market has been such trash that I decided to take this opportunity since the money is pretty decent and so are the benefits. However, I am not used to this much physical labor and being constantly on my feet. Nearing the end of week two, I’m finally adjusting to it and I’m not as physically tired anymore. Yesterday, while my trainer was fixing something I decided to sit down for a few moments to rest my feet and body. The trainer thought I fell asleep, I very much wasn’t asleep. I was well aware of what she was doing…

I used to work at 7 eleven and I only worked there for less than a week. One day a manager made me do all the dirty work in the store and she barely lifted a finger while I had to take multiple trash bags out to the dumpster (at least 12) that were filled to the brim and many of the trash bags were filled with juices from slushes,big gulp drinks coffee, and energy drinks. The same manager who brought her infant daughter was openly mocking me asking if I was okay even though a few trash bins were so full, while pulling them out the bins they tilted over. Im only 5’1 and I pulled a stomach muscle bad while trying to keep the trash bags away from my body. That same manager asked me to clean the bathrooms later on that night and offered just to mop…

I work at a cafe as a baker, I have been there for a year. I don't have a lot of contact with the other staff since my work area is downstairs and I am the only baker. It has come to my attention that there is a tipshare pool for the kitchen staff that I was never told about and I have never seen any tips from. This cafe does a lot of business in the summer and I was working 12-16 hours a day producing baked goods and they all sold very well. Does anyone know if there is some legal reason that I could just be arbitrarily excluded from the tipshare right out of the gate? This is in Minnesota. Thanks