Antiwork

Longtime lurker first time poster, sorry for the long ass post So I quit my job over the summer to start a business with my brother, took some time off in between, and a good friend contacted me and asked if I could come help out. He manages a quick lube place, and his techs all up and quit one day(painfully obvious why now.) He got in touch and said he would start me at what I was making at my previous job and said it was even negotiable. He said I was worth that much and more but that he couldn’t do much better than that because of the position. I knew it was kind of an entry level position so I was fine with the cap. I mulled it over for a few days and signed on as a temporary thing. One thing led to another and the…

Long time lurker, first time poster. So I was finishing up college in the midwest. It was the spring semester of 2020 and I had accepted a position with a company of a couple hundred people in a small town in the middle of nowhere, hours away from where I was currently living. I asked for compensation slightly above average for grads from my college program. I had pretty good grades and internship experience . I ended up agreeing on $1k less than the average. A month later COVID hits and I get told I would be placed on hiring freeze until August. Alright, I guess just something I’ll have to live with. Well the beginning of June rolls around and I get called and asked if I could start at the beginning of July. But they need me to take a 10% pay cut through the end of the…

I just got a call from a company interested in my resume they found on Indeed (I haven’t updated in a couple years tbh). I work in mental health so my skills and time are chronically undervalued – they offered me the same hourly rate that I started off at – to work with the most severe patients (before you hit hospitalization/incarceration). I have shy of 10 years of experience and advanced degrees. Wtf, I keep telling myself with the state of the world – one thing I’ll always have will be job security…

I have been looking for a job for like a year, and every single advertisement always asks for job experience, how do they expect me to get experience if no one hires me to get experience? I don't know what i am doing wrong… I left high school to get into trades but besides the inhumane conditions where i was away from home for like 13 hours for 400 euros (minimum wage here is 750€), i didn't really like the job (Car Mechanic Assistant), so i decided to leave, but couldn't find any job so i guess I'll go back and finish high school. Im 17 years old so i can't exactly understand what I'm supposed to do? I just want a job where I'm told to do something, do it, get paid fairly and go home… For now I'm living with my parents and I'm going back to high…

I read about a new law in New York that requires employers to include salary ranges for job postings. Luckily my whole industry is funded by taxes so we must be transparent, but I remember being frustrated by this in the past and I wonder: Job seekers: do you find it a waste of time when you interview for jobs only to find out the wages are insufficient? Does the lack of transparency in a company create a lack of trust? Hiring parties: do you find it a waste of time to review and interview candidates who might not have applied if given this information? Would transparency establish more trust and value during a time when companies are competing for labor? How does shielding salary range information benefit the customer, employee, applicant or company as a whole? Why is a law necessary? I’m very curious! Y’all know any companies choosing…

I know this is supposed to be an ad for turbotax but I can only feel like it's saying you do your work and we will take your taxes. The rich family in this ad are creepy. https://preview.redd.it/ixn1xhwyv3h81.png?width=1060&format=png&auto=webp&s=df52d8393438d85f1be1ff568a0595f8e2252b50

The Giant near me is staffed primarily by teenagers. I go there once or twice a week and they never get to sit, I've heard them talk about not getting breaks and having to work pretty late. I mentioned to the (16 year old) cashier that Aldi cashiers get to sit and she was shocked. Then I told her they should consider discussing a union and she said she didn't even know that was an option. I'd love to bring them some info or a cheat sheet about organizing but I don't knot white to look. Anyone have something like a onesheet I could use?