Antiwork

I work as a temp at a financial services company is the Northeast region of the US. I am currently making $17/hr and, if I accept this offer, would be making $25/hr. The offer letter contains the phrase admin/bookkeeper as the position and doesn't come with a Job Description. During negotiations, I asked for at least a rough draft of the job description so I can be prepared and understand the chain of command. My would be boss, pushed back really hard, stating, “Because it's a new position and we're all sooo busy, it would be difficult to create that so quickly” and, “This is more of a 'learn as you go', and you'll be expected to float around on different projects, so it's all very fluid” Is what I'm requesting unreasonable? Do their responses to me seem reasonable? Is this a red flag? If they say No to providing…

Nothing like making your employees feel unappreciated and undervalued like disregarding all their hard work and then acting disgruntled over a request to leave slightly early for a holiday weekend!

Just got the company email. To combat the high gas prices, a bike rack is being installed. Bike to work instead of driving! Glad to know I can start practicing for my Olympic triathlon now… twice daily.

I recently had COVID. I isolated at home for 5 days per the CDC and policy for my work. I returned on day 6 (day 0 was onset of symptoms) and I am being forced drain my PTO bank to cover that. This policy imo is bullshit. I don’t understand how I am required to cover my own leave when it is mandated that I stay home for COVID. The best part is I work for a hospital. Any advice on this if I can fight it? This seems so unreasonable. Even better my boss told me that I need to manage my pto better and have a cushion of at least 60 hrs in my bank just in case stuff like this happens. How is that okay for them to shame me for not having enough pto for an illness in which I am forced to stay home from…

I looked up the dictionary definitions of socialism and communism because the false-equivalency arguments got me curious. Communism is, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs”, plus all property being owned by the state. It's idealistic and it obviously hasn't worked, but that's what it is. Socialism holds that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be regulated by the community as a whole. And only that. So it turns out I had a misconception, in that while things like single-payer healthcare and universal basic income may RESULT from socialism, they are not INHERENT to socialism. UBI may lead to libertarianism, but they're not the same thing. It seems that we here at antiwork are more like Utilitarians than anything. Universal basic income would be beneficial for us, and so we support it. Same with single-payer healthcare, removing corruption and bullshit insurance. A 32…

And that reason is: young people (Millennials amd Zoomers) have given up on 3 major things: buying a house buying a car making children Those 3 are simply too expensive. All of a sudden, even those who managed to save moderately, found themselves having “extra” money from crossing off literally their future. They are spending like it's their last time on this planet. 20$ meal? Sure, I don't have any other plans for the money.

Every employer who’s having a hard time hiring people. Here’s some hints. Get rid of all the pre-employment hoops you require people to jump through in order to get hired. The boomer generation never had to deal with any of this when they got hired back in the day and neither should we. 1. pre employment drug tests. I believe this is one of the number 1 factors in people not getting hired or even bother applying. 1st of all, all states that have legalized Marijuana should no longer be testing for it. Period. Marijuana can stay in your system for up 2 months after smoking it just once depending on one’s body fat level. 2nd of all your drug policy should be for them to be tested only if you have reasonable suspicion to believe their on drugs while on the job, otherwise it’s none of your business what…

So when your boss says he can't afford to pay you, 9 times out of 10 it's a load of shit I work as a contractor, and alot of the homes I work on are on the nicer side and belong to alot of business owners They need to pay for that new mercedes and their wifes fake rack somehow. And guess how they do it? they underpay the shit out of their employees