Antiwork

Hear me out it sounds pretty stupid but i was in many different companies and i realized that the company's that pay well have good toilet paper… sounds stupid but is the truth if they cheap out on the toilet paper they probably cheap out on wages too.

I have had a very high fever and am getting tested for covid-19 this afternoon. I’m having extreme coughing, can hardly stand much and have fatigue. My roommate also went through this two days before I got sick. I’ve had covid in the past and I know what it’s like and this is exactly like the last time I had it. But I was just informed by another co-worker covid-19 leave is no longer paid, I will work until my result comes back (in +/- 3 days) and no matter what the result, I really I cannot take a week or two off work because I need the money. I feel like this forces me to come in even if I do test positive for covid-19. How is this even legal for them not to pay you? If anyone can please advise on what I can do.

would apply as the federal and state minimum wage nation wide

So many employers paying shit pay pay unless you are team lead or senior or work at a top tier firm with massive contracts, but those firms are near impossible to get into because of all the applicants and people know the jobs in those places are actually the easiest. Takes fucking years to learn some of this stuff and put into practice but its not worth a penny according to employers. (UK)

does anyone else have this? I just started a job after being laid off for almost a year due to COVID. I have been sick this week for something not covid related. I called in on Monday and after shitting and puking all night and getting zero hours of sleep I had to call in today. I think because I lost my job in a really bad situation I have this residual anxiety that anything I do will lead to me being fired and struggling again. I hate feeling like this. I have so much anxiety that I’m going to lose my job all over booking two days in one week off.

Turns out that the company we work for are paying us all less than industry standard. I’m under the bottom margin by 2k one of the guys’ salary has only gone up 3k in 2 years. He is being underpaid by 11k. The other engineers are quite possibly being underpaid 30k. WTF. All this. From a multimillion dollar company. Exploited.

I have been hearing oddly disturbing commentary about how some people believe we need a recession to combat inflation and high housing prices , or how student loan interest needs to increase to prevent inflation Here is the thing though, we have had a stagnant wages for years, this is just the economy finally compensating. its also interesting to me that complaints about low wages before the great resignation were met with “free market economics” but when the free market determines wages should go up those same people say “not like that, the government needs to do X” ps: high loan rates wont reduce wage inflation it will increase it because workers will now need more money to survive.