Category: Antiwork

That’s it. Business has doubled the last couple years with no end to the growth in sight. That’s the work of us workers, not the CEO.

I told my boss Monday, I'd like $25 an hour to continue working. I was a vital part of the process of a larger than normal “mom and pop” sign shop. I ran their large format printers and cnc machines, managed time tables for production with the front and shipping. I gave him a week to figure out If he wanted to keep me, as I had been informed by a co worker that he had hired someone while I was absent with covid. This kind of was my last straw. It's been an awful year. My hours were cut down so I lost my health insurance, my pay rate wasn't increased to compensate as promised, I've had to learn two new machines at the same time while also fulfilling and managing a team for a rush order of 50k worth of signs in a restricted time limit. My “bonus”…