Category: Antiwork

So to give some background, I have a roommate who works in the same department as me. We both requested off a week for a vacation we had planned. My company accepted my request off but not his. They said they can’t allow two people from the same department to be off at the same time so we canceled the trip. Well fast forward to today, he tests positive for COVID. I tested negative and was required to come in. Started to feel a bit shitty towards lunch and went home and took another test. I was positive. Now we are both quarantined for a week and will both be missing the exact same amount of time we would have been missing for that trip. They are requiring us to use PTO, the same PTO that would have been used for the trip lol. So now we get to see…

I have no idea about what imbecile put work before life.

It’s basically a sub of boomers dedicated to hating us! Lol. They think we’re all communists!! There’s an anarcho capitalist sub that hates us too but I don’t really know wtf they’re about

That's how much I've paid in rent over the last ~10 years. I've paid $138,680 to have my security deposit taken for no reason. To live in a roach infested apartment complex. To have a hole the size of a bathtub in the bathroom ceiling for over a month. Sure, there was a good landlord now and then, but I have paid $138,680 to other people/businesses in order for the right to have a place to sleep.

I am a grad student and I normally just use my wife insurance but she switched jobs so we figured we would just sign up for mine for a month or two as I have ADHD and need insurance else my meds are a shit load of money. Anyways, I sent all of my shit to hr, but then was told that they now use a third party service for their benefits. I tried to sign up through said third party but needed information to make an account from HR and they simply just stopped responding to me. I figured everything was good. A little bit later I notice my paycheck is significantly less and after a phone call I learn that they are taking out benefits many months in advance. Also, HR didn't send over all my documents to the third party so I don't even have insurance but…

You can read the original post here. First off, many thanks to all who commented, gave me encouragement, and schooled me in the term constructive termination. I wrote my boss an email later that day and quit. She was not surprised, and was not planning on rehiring for my position. Knowing that I had a bit of a landing pad through unemployment was really huge. I had been thinking of changing career fields for a while now, and it encouraged me to apply to a couple of graduate programs doing something that I think is positive for the world and people, versus what I was doing, which was wringing money from local businesses to line my boss's pocket. There were many questions about base pay vs commission. For anyone who's worked in sales, the base pay is usually a fraction of what you normally make overall. This is what I…

I'm not a big capitalist myself, but: The “work” of an employee is their product they sell to the company they work for. That's what the worker is to them. A product. And in capitalism, you should shop around and know the prices of the product you're selling. And the prices in your area (office). But, they don't want people to share their wage information. But you can't negotiate well if you don't know your local prices. And that's for any product in any business.. apples or labor. If you're selling apples, but they say you can't look at what all the other people selling apples are selling them for.. that's quite a disadvantage. In capitalism, you can gather your buying power to get better prices, like Walmart using all their stores to negotiate a lower price. But, unions are the same idea, gathering their product, labor, together to get…