Category: Antiwork

I’m curious about why it is that few people are willing to talk about how school system does not teach personal finance, mental health, time management, and soft skills( which is very useful for getting hired at jobs) and only teaches us to do random things we won’t use in real life and do not allow mistakes. But they say school exists so that we can learn things.

I've been with my current company for 11 years, have been wfh since March of 2020, going into the office 1-2 days max (sometimes none at all) and currently get a half day off every Friday. Management has been very understandable that i don't want to move into any kind of manager position and that i want to do what I currently do, for a good while. We are merging with this company by 4/1 and they're are only offering a 9/80 schedule and only allow 1 wfh day per week. I'm really dreading the commute, spending extra $ in gas and tolls, having to work a full 4 days in the office, but most importantly how this company handles professional development. I got my letter stating that my employment will continue last week; I still don't know exactly what I will be doing once we move over. A very…

So, I work for a tiny business in town and while I am able to work from home (IT) I have no sick time remaining due to getting sick so many times during autumn because I have 2 little kids, one in school, and one in occupational/speech therapy (significant autism) and it was a particularly bad year for flu, cold, and Covid, etc. I get 80 hours of sick/vacation time a year. Sometimes my boss will cover me, liek when i had a baby and got 3 days off… I have also been dealing with debilitating back pain due to a severely herniated L4-L5 disc. Sharp sciatic pain up and down my left leg.. it often freezes me in paralyzation due to how it hurts so severely when changing positions at times. So, I had spinal surgery yesterday (microdiscectomy) and my boss (who charges $150/hour for the work I do;…

2nd to last job, the company I worked for lied and got a fat contract. They were trying to make me learn a new language (Farsi) and also try to deploy an app that only ran on Solaris 10 servers. As you know, new Oracle (Sun) servers run on Solaris 11, Solaris 10 had to be virtualized. It was nothing like VMware. Last job I quit, I had to be on these stupid-assed kanban scrum calls or whatever and participated every day. My story is that my manager has never contacted me and has set no goals/projects/deliverables. One day on a customer call, I got a question directed to an employee I had just fired, my iphone would not respond so it took me nearly a minute to respond. I took up that person's role, learned the gig, and had a valid, tech response. My boss called me after and…

I’ve been here at this job for a few months. I really love it. The advertisement on Indeed stated the pay rate as $15-$18 an hour. In the interview we agreed upon $16 an hour. I can’t remember what exact paperwork I signed but, I would’ve noticed if I was signing something that said $15 an hour. I needed proof of income and saw my pay rate was at 15 this whole time. Lesson learned, check my paystubs regularly. Im 21 and have never had to navigate something like this before. Im in California, what do I do?

Hoping anyone from Aus (specifically NSW) could help me out here. Work is sending us on a 4 day conference, we have to travel and stay interstate (all paid by the business) but they will only be paying us for our usual business hours that would normally be worked on the days there, as if we were still at the office. Is this correct?