Antiwork

This happened a while ago and I couldn't talk about this before because the person I found this out from still worked there and I didn't want to get them in trouble. They don't work there anymore so here it goes. After 2 years of putting everything we had I to this company until there was nothing left to give, a bunch of senior lead women and non-binary people were suddenly laid off. They said it was “due to covid” but we all noticed the specific people chosen had some things in common. We had all asked, at some point or another, for better working conditions. We asked, politely, for better schedules. We were exhausted. My mental and physical health declined rapidly. I almost died driving home from work from exhaustion. We would work every night and weekend for .months at a time to make their shitty deadlines. When we…

We know that anyone here making less than $15 per hour (and, really, $25 or more in a lot of places) is underpaid. However, for those of us that make more than that, how underpaid are you based on your skills, experience, etc? I've made the mistake of not moving on from my company and, based on my title and experience, I am about 12k below the average for my area and about $40k below the top end. I'm also paid exactly the same as someone with a lower title who has been with the company less time and is not as high performing as me. I don't begrudge her that, I am angry with my company for not valuing me appropriately. So, how about you?

I work as an hourly drone in the paint department at a big box hardware chain, and my supervisor is, basically, a giant douchebag. He's aggressively unpleasant and hypercritical all the time, to the point where I've just given up trying to please him. I know that no matter what I do it will be the wrong thing and he'll give me shit for it. Even worse, he has the very unnerving habit of disappearing for hours and then suddenly reappearing right behind me the moment I do something he disapproves of. I've seen him behave similarly to other coworkers but not to the same extent or the same extremes as he does with me. On the 11th a customer asked me to identify a fire alarm she had brought with her. I couldn't because I know nothing of either fire nor alarms and directed her to the electrical department,…

Gonna keep this vague while I work out the general stance on this issue I work at a bar in the UK where my barstaff are paid minimum wage (I am a supervisor and get an additional £1 an hour) We've been told that when cash up comes in under (less in the tills than we should be) that the bar staff who worked that day have to pay for it Personally I believe minimum wage staff being charged means they're either not getting minimum wage or they're having their tips taken. Both are illegal as far as I'm aware. I also do the cash up myself every night and know for a fact the losses are less than 1% of the take for the day. Am I right in thinking this is illegal or am I at least right in not wanting to work for this company any longer?

I’m prolly gonna get downvoted first this but I’m just wondering what the point of this sub is? What is it accomplishing? All I’ve seen is (rightful) bitching at employers and I guess I just don’t understand…. So what IS antiwork?

I had a great job that I really enjoyed. It was pretty low pay, but it was literally 50 applicants per position. I got in as a college internship. I got paid like $600 a month, but I got free housing, and per diem for days worked my first year. It was what it was. I was young and didn’t have many expenses. Then I was hired on as a seasonal employee for the next 5 seasons, (basically April through September). I started at $13.49 and made my way up to $15. It was a grind, but I loved the work, and I got really good at it. There were permanent positions, but they were very limited, and you either had to wait until somebody retired, or move to a completely different location. My 5th year there, 6th if you include my college internship ( I received a bachelors degree…

Managment told us we would be running a contest to see who could sell the most protection plans on furniture and electronics item with the top 2 employees winning “expensive” grand prizes. I should mention that these plans, which we have no incentive to sell we recieve no extra compensation or any sort of commission for these often hundreds of dollar sales with the plans just being pushed as they are one of the companys easiest money makers. Got stupidly excited hoping i could impress the store managers by being top place despite being the newest employee in the store. Worked harder than normal and to be honest harder than i should for the wage i am paid, and came in second me a new employee sold the second most number of plans.How did my gracious company, whom i single handidly just made thousands of dollars, show appreciation for the…

The best way to answer questions about gaps in your resume is to lie, and lie big. “I was backpacking through eastern Europe working as a freelance blacksmith and studying local farm culture.” “Oh that year I was living with the Pygmies in New Guinea filming an amateur documentary about tribal water wells.” The bigger the lie, the more it sounds like the gaps were important self-work being done. This theory is based on absolutely nothing.