Antiwork

In the rare and unlikely event you actually take the time to listen to your staff's concerns, ideas, and solutions, you will not enact any meaningful staff oriented positive change. Instead, you set forth your own solutions, hence creating a new set of problems in which you will refuse to listen to your staff's concerns, ideas, and solutions. Thus the cycle continues. Everything is fine. Your staff and costumers are happy. Carry on the status quo with your useless task force, committees, and 9:00am meetings. Keep the shareholders and CEO'S comfortable in their mansions, make your bonuses off the back of your workers, and reach for the top of that corporate ladder while congratulating yourselves on being architects of the universe.

I honestly don't have a whole lot to say other than the title. Long story short I am at a hotel front desk where because of shenanigans they seriously want me to work for 3+ weeks straight. The person who worked on my days off is off the schedule. We are so understaffed because our pay is really bad and the upper management keeps saying how we can't afford to pay better to entry level positions. But the thing is if they increased the starting wage to where it would get actual good applicants it would STILL cost less than them paying me 1.5x my wage for all the stupid overtime they are having me do. And frankly? If they can't pay to have enough staff to comfortably fill 21 desk shifts a week, with enough employees we can schedule for vacations or sick days without needing to shove massive…

I'll start by saying that I'm a pretty busy student, so I had to find a job that would have a schedule compatible with my studies. In my not-so-big town it can be really hard to find something like that so I was kinda desperate – I need money to buy food etc – so I was willing to take pretty much any job that would be ok with me only working weekends and some occasional weekdays. A friend of a friend told me I can try a smoothie place (part of a chain) in a mall so I did. Now I don't want to sound too dramatic when I say they made me work for free. Basically, they told me that before I can officially start working, I needed to come in for a trial day to learn everything. I agreed. Turned out the way to learn is a…

It occurs to me that the main reason interviewers want to put the salary at the END of the process is because they want to manipulate you as much as possible to lowball you as little as possible. I never realized what the actual tactic was and originally just thought it was delusional business leaders being full of themselves, but it's actually a working psychological trick on the unwary to get you to accept less. It's exactly the same as the tactic used in sales to “build value” that I was taught years ago. How insidious. I'm posting this because I have recently been looking for new work and found a bunch of posts from business interviewers on work sites I have visited who went on about how asking about salary “too early” in the interview process was a “red flag”, because you were not spending any time on the…