Antiwork

Started a new position at my company and it came with a bump in pay. Well that was about 2 months ago and the change in pay hasn't happened yet. Talked to new manager many times and got the run around so I went to his boss and he seemed to have no clue that anything was going on. So he asks me about dates and says he will get working on it. He also said not to wait 2 months (as if I was just waiting till today to ask) and then tells me that I won't get payed for the day I came over and started the job but the day they sent me the hiring letter. So about 3 weeks of doing this job but not paid for it. Edit. So my supervisor is willing to pay me the difference for the time the company won't pay…

Work is nonsingular. Work is split up in primary and secondary work. One cant without the other & a reason why technical progress is not the solution to the end of work. Primary work is the work you are actually doing. Everyone subjectively works primary. A product in any kind of industry needs a specific set of work. Lets say a car factory needs engineers, production line workers, steel industry workers etc. Without them the car wont be manufactured. All these workers need secondary work simply to be able to work. For example road transport infrastructure / public transport, food industry, clothing industry, care takers, etc. Without secondary work you cant primary work. All the secondary work is primary work in its self and produces another line of secondary work. Working basically means forcing someone else to work for you. Even if you build machines to simplify work there will…

I'm torn. I don't agree with some of his stances on issues (unrelated, not relevant to this post). I like him in the general sense as being someone with strong views some of which can be used retroactively. But recently I was made privy to a video he made where he claims to work 100hrs a week. 14hr days. The rest of the time he claims to spend time with family and friends whilst also doing carpentry and fixing up his “cottage” or whatever. When does this man eat, sleep or get time away from people/working?! Jordan Peterson is someone who a lot of (generally young men) look up to as an example of how they should live their lives. Working 100hrs a week, 14hr days. I'm torn between my enjoyment of many of some of his sentiments and my inability to agree with his promotion of this type of…

Currently my workplace is hiring salespeople. But because it’s commission-only and it takes a significant amount of time to get established in this business, we’ve seen a lot of declined job offers. And me as a peon gets to hear how sad it is that “no one wants to invest in themselves.” When has anyone actually said the words “you know what, I hate investing in myself I’d rather keep pissing my money away”? People can’t not eat for 3+ mos that’s not a thing. Anyone would choose a lot more money later than a lot less money now – that’s literally what investing is. They don’t have the option to go without an income. What are your commission horror stories?

My department has been buried in a backlog of emails from clients going back to December due to being short staffed. This past week we dug ourselves out thanks to mandatory overtime. To prevent this from happening again senior management announced that an employee cannot carry more than 10 emails over into the next day. Same staff level, same work load, same average handling time requirements…so in short,the best solution management could come up with to fix a problem is to make the problem our fault

For some background, I'm likely leaving my current company for another agency that'll pay me nearly double. The staff that I work with are kind and hardworking but because of the stress of the environment, everyone's kind of pressured not to ask for raises and bonuses regardless of all the days we pick up. There's kind of a sentiment that management is stressed out under pressure to perform even though we've never perceived them as hard working or on our side since we can predict they'd side with administration when it comes to us. Anyways, I want to encourage as many people as I can, company over all has a maybe 2000 – 3000 employees and at least 1500 could leave for other places paying them at least 40% more. And for those not comfortable for leaving I want to at least encourage them to put their foot down and…

The title says it all, I am currently looking for another job because of personal and professional issues. I have gone to multiple interviews and they have all asked if my current boss knows I’m leaving. What would be the best answer for the questions like that during the interview?