Category: Antiwork

Jumped from a toxic job to a new one, and was excited to start, especially talking about paid benefits and how I told the CEO I had coverage for me and my spouse through my last job. They had plans to start getting the things together at the start of 2023, but I knew it was going to be awhile so I was okay without having insurance immediate if I knew it was on the way. Come to find out this morning it’s rolling out on the first of the year and I’m excited to have coverage again! … Until they unveiled the “paid” benefits. I made it abundantly clear my last job had coverage basically in full(healthcare, vision, dental) from my last job and I honestly should have noticed the bit where they were a little ambiguous about it, now I’m staring at 1300 every 2 paychecks and the…

I work for a small dispensary. I am the store manager. I've been doing an amazing job since I replaced the old manager. I've made the store more money, turn over is decreased, employees are happy, and productivity is higher than the last two years. I've asked the owner two times in person now if we are open on Christmas and told him I don't think we should be. He said “I don't think so either”, let me look at last years sales” both times. This guy is super greedy, already super rich. I just got a message from management today that we got confirmation of Christmas hours. Basically confirming that we are open that day. I was so enraged I thought about quitting, then I thought about just closing the store anyway and telling my employees they don't have to come in. I'm at a loss, what should I…

Got my review the other week. I “meet expectations”. My raise was a whopping $0.43/hr. I told my boss today that the raise sucks, we have record inflation and I get this? He’s like YoU gOt a RaIsE in MaRcH.

First, we had an actual nice lunch catered in. It was really good. But they gave out swag bags. Except it's not filled with swag from our company. ANd not everyone got all of the same things in their bags. Some people got power banks, wireless chargers, tshirts, and badge clip reels (and that's just in the little group I sit with, who knows what other people got) Because they gave us stuff that came off of tables from other companies at trade shows. I got a tin of mints from a company that makes identification cards, two reusable straws (which is the only thing I'm excited about), a letter opener (because I mean, i get so much mail…), a mystery clip that the front comes off and is magnetic, but only to the mystery clip… I got a notebook two pens a wallet sized multi tool and a cloth…

I work in a supply chain factory based in the south and we were told back in October that we would have off from the 21st through the 31st due to our year being over (we finish shipping everything out by 12/1 and just do follow up work the remaining few weeks) Fast forward to yesterday morning at 9am when we all receive an email telling us due to the storm coming this week we will need to be all hands on deck and will need to remain in the office through the new year. Nevermind the fact that I booked a flight back to visit my family in Long Island and Rochester, I’m now going to miss watching the First Responders Bowl with my uncle and dad who are both first responders. It gets worse. As a gesture of good will my boss said we would get free lunch…

This seems like a good place to post an article that rolled through my Google news feed just this morning: “Employers are putting artificially low salaries on job postings to try to get around pay transparency laws” Lest we forget though, this is literally Fed Chair Jerome Powell's plan to lower inflation: “Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Wednesday said the biggest remaining barrier to taming inflation is the shortage of workers, which is giving Americans greater clout to seek higher pay.” Powell has actually been promising you this nightmare for several months now and he appears poised to continue into 2023: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/26/economy/federal-reserve-jerome-powell-jackson-hole-2022/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/economy/fed-jerome-powell-pain-economy/index.html ​ The promise of “low unemployment and high wages” is something that sounds good in political campaign speeches, but the functional reality is that the folks who really run the economy see that as a pervasive and existential threat to their trickle down / supply side…