Category: Antiwork

So Wednesday I had a chat with my district manager. In short I asked her about reviews. She replied reviews can happen anytime but as of now no more raises…labor is too high. I told her you said 3 weeks ago labor was too high that’s because of tax season. January is notoriously slow business wise. It proves what I told my GM that this is a no win scenario…no one is getting raises oh but they sure make sure corporate gets more money. Computers went down Sunday night…Thursday morning their still working on them. Had a kid whining about he’s working all week. Told him that’s my life get used to it. Get used to 1 job not covering everything. 2 jobs are generally needed. No surprise his sister tried to text me an hour later to cover his shift. Nope. Friday is my day off. If I’m not…

So I was wondering why my former boss only hired minors, but it's because he takes their tips (and minors would be less aware that it's wage theft) if they don't reach a quota and that quota is unreachable especially in winter. He also evades taxes because he tried to get me into it but I said no because I wanted to pay taxes and get my proper refund. Also I filed an UI claim on my part but it didn't work out because apparently the monetary amount wasn't reached but I'm pretty sure he excluded some of my earnings. He hides behind a nice guy mask and does all these shady things honestly. Edit: Also I feel like these practices are common especially in Chinese oriented workplaces. Not being racist because I'm also Chinese lol. One time I had a tutoring job that I barely started because they never…

I have been working at my current employer for 3 years and promotions keep getting put off and put off. I’m curious, does your company promote frequently?

I've been working for a major healthcare company for 4 months, doing WFH customer service so I can finish my masters. This company is a giant, billion dollar insurance company, all over the world, and yet, give no annual raises, no annual bonuses, only quarterly merit based bonuses. Normally, I'm not opposed to merit based compensation, as long as there are other ways to get bonused or raises. But, not even when adding skill sets do they give a raise (we're trained for one line of business, and can train for others down the line). Only merit based or promotions. Is this common now? Of course, the requirements to 'bonus' every quarter are strict and difficult to reach. I've worked many jobs in my life (mid thirties), and have never seen one that only provides this kind of thing.

My partner works for a large scale green energy company. At the beginning of the year the company switched from using ADP to Paylocity for payroll. Since doing so every single check my partner has got, has been incorrect in terms of hours paid, taxes taken out, he was even charged for per diem that was supposed to be given to him. Obviously he immediately brought it up and was told it wasn’t just him but the whole company is having trouble getting everyone’s checks right. He was reassured that he would get what he was owed on his next check. Even though we needed the money asap he didn’t want to cause an issue and decided to wait. Skip to next check, the money owed to him is still not there, AND the check is completely wrong again. Missing almost 40 hours of overtime pay, getting charged state taxes…

We are trying to change programs for my job. Because some people don’t realize the office walls are thin, I overheard that they would rather I re- enter data just for it to be lost in the program change and have to re-enter it again than to let me have a day off while they get the program ready to launch. It is a literal waste of time. Guess who will be looking busy and NOT entering the extra data? Yup. It’s also funny because not one of them even has the log in to the program to check my work. All because letting me have a day off would apparently be too much.

Will you get a higher salary increase than those who are doing the bare minimum? No. More in bonuses? No. But you will be rewarded by being given more work to do and more will be expected of you. You will be held to a higher standard than people who do minimal work. If that's how it's going to be then you might as well do the bare minimum.

But if the pay isn't adequate, nothing else matters. I'm sure people would be willing to move jobs and take a pay cut for a better office culture (or going remote), less hours, better perks, or a better location if it was a choice between two living wages. So when some asshole hits you with “It really is all about the money to you, isn't it?” don't tell them they're right. Tell them you have your priorities in order, and that you'll give consideration to their other points once your basic needs are met.