Category: Antiwork

I need some help navigating this: a friend on Facebook recently posted a babysitting gig for her two daughters (10 and 7) for someone to come over from 5am-7am to wake them up and the them ready for and on the bus in the morning every day they have school. She’s offering $80/week which would work out to $8/hour on an average school week. Minimum wage in that area (Southern Oregon) is $13.50/hour. Babysitters in that area make an average of $14/hour according to care(dot)com. I did a little research and it seems that babysitters can be paid federal minimum wage ($7.25/hour) even if state minimum wage is higher. So, this is legal, but I think she’s WAAAY underpaying for that job. The implication of the post is that it’s a super easy job because it’s only for 2 hours a day on school days. My argument is, if it’s…

So I live in bc Canada and I was working for a logging outfit, the industry went to shit and the job ended, I was hired to work locally. But now the job is done and my employer has not been spoken to me until today about the situation, only to say he found go work in Alberta Canada, and asked if I was going to go. I told him my job had ended and I so wanted to be laid off so I could go to school and change my career. He told me since there’s work if I don’t I am quitting, which I believe would mean I don’t get Employment insurance. Does any other know the rules on this as to whether I am correct that my job ended or if he is correct and since there’s work I’d have to just call it quits?

Fought really hard for a promotion and got it in October, but was told that the raise would come in 2023. Sus, but okay. It's 2023 and my company just finished their performance review and market adjustment exercise this week. Boss sat me down to say I wouldn't be getting a raise for my promotion because “it's in the same band”. Promotion was from manager to senior manager. If it's the same band, why was I told to wait till 2023 for the raise that never came? What can I do about this?

I just graduated college and got my bachelor's. I'm going into communications/social media management/ PR… needless to say, I'm not stoked about being a slave to capitalism but I do enjoy being creative with writing and making content. ANYWAYS…I have only had one internship and now I am trying to find a full-time job and actually start making a livable wage. Except, everywhere I could apply seems like they want a ton of experience and different skills. For example, many people are wanting me to be proficient in photoshop …which I'm not. Is it normal to feel this underqualified/ill-prepared at this point in my life and career? I feel like I am going to be doomed to taking on lousy internships that don't pay or hardly pay at all until I have all this experience people apparently want.

I was talking to my boss today about the best way to handle unused sick time at the end of the year. I think it's best to let it roll over, because if you pay it out, you are essentially incentivizing employees to work when they are sick, because they will get more pay at the end of the year, than if they had taken their days. He argued that paying it out makes it less likely that people will call in sick when they really aren't. That a person who had accumulated a lot of hours might suddenly call out for a long time, which would disrupt the schedule. But such a thing is possible for an actual sickness too. What do the people of antiwork think?

So I had the flu the past couple days and ended up pulling a back muscle from coughing so hard. It was painful to walk and I was still coughing which was making it worse. One of my shifts got covered but I couldn’t find one for the other so I had to call off, but I had a doctors note saying I pulled a back muscle and should stay home from work. My boss tells me they don’t accept doctors notes and that I’ll still be penalized. So close to quitting because Im a full time college student and they schedule me 5 8 hour shifts a week when I’ve asked them not to. Do not respect me at all.

Basically what it sounds like. For the last month I've been checking the displays daily to make sure these dumbass kids don't look up and leave porn on the devices. After about 3 weeks of it happening, I told my department leader we need to check the cameras and figure out who's doing it. Instead of anyone actually being left to keep an eye on the displays, I was told to “take a breath” and “calm down” instead of get pissed that no one is keeping the porn off the fucking displays that CHILDREN have access to. Children are capable of turning these devices on and opening up the browsers. 90% of the time, these bastards leave PornHub up on the browser so when you open it, it's the first thing you see. In case anyone is wondering, refusing or neglecting to clear this off the devices is illegal. We…