Category: Antiwork

This week is my last week of my hourly kitchen job (gave chef 2 weeks) and yesterday when I spoke to her, she told me she’s not wasting her breath on me anymore. Say f*ck it and not show up the next two days? Say something to her? No way to treat people, let alone someone who has busted their ass for you the last 6 months.

As the title states, I was getting some pizzas and I saw a sign inside for the workers that said no employees are allowed to take anything home even if it's waste. Why?? You pay minimum wage and you're just gonna throw it in the trash. LET YOUR EMPLOYEES TAKE FOOD HOME INSTEAD OF THROWING IT AWAY! they are already starving.

I know, everyone wants a brand new system, but until then: Say you make 40k and are due for a 5% raise each March. In January, start applying for jobs like crazy. Tell them you make 45k (lie #1) so you're hoping for that salary or higher. Let's say two of them offer you 50k. Tell your current employer you appreciate the 5% raise to 42k and you do enjoy the company, but you have student loans or or child support or whatever to pay so you don't have a choice but to leave and take the 55k offer (lie #2) from elsewhere. Let's say they offer to match the (fake) 55k offer. Now you go back to the offers an tell them the same story, their company looks very interesting blahblah but you don't have a choice but to go for the bigger salary, and that your company offered…