Antiwork

On any post I read from someone dealing with a crappy boss looking for advice, the top comments are almost always variations of “I'd tell them to F*ck off if I were you!”. It's so easy to say when you don't have skin in the game. How many people here have practiced what they preach?

So, I don't have a solution for this problem, but I just realized how fucked up tipping is. We are paying the wage of the person whose working. The company should be doing that. Maybe this is why people outside of America think tipping is weird, I don't know. Anyway, I just realized how guilty I felt not tipping the pizza delivery guy what I would consider enough money. When I was working pizza delivery, a $5 tip was good. Now, it's a pittance. That's kind of jacked up considering minimum wage hasn't changed. Just a thought. Cheers.

Minimum wage ought to be $20-30 depending on location/COL. Between actual inflation and corporate taking advantage of reasons for inflation to push even harder , lets call it greedflation, $15 is not going to cut it anymore, not that it was going to be enough for a living wage anywhere except in the lowest COL areas prior to 2005.

And I couldn't be happier. The contract was terrible. I work for a grocery store chain that's across 5 midwest states. They were only offering a 50 cent raise, $1 for Sundays, despite other locations from the same company around the area having a higher starting wage. I'd only make $11-11.50 despite being directly under management (I supervise up to 12 cashiers at a time, manage breaks, and solve any customer issues that don't need to be escalated to a manager. Currently make $10) If you had 10 hours of a working day in your availability, they could schedule you those 10 hours instead of picking 8 of those hours without your permission. They were raising how many years you had to be there for the third week of vacation from 5 years to 10 years. Cutting benefits, raising the age to get a pension, just every part of it…

We spend our lives in unjust authoritarian relationships with managers. We stand on our feet all day, put up with terrible coworkers, hurt ourselves, kill ourselves, work 60 hour weeks and don't get paid enough to survive. We have to take it and take it and take it in the modern workplace. But the one glistening democratic right we have amidst it all is the right to up and quit. People justify and defend capitalism endlessly due to the fact that no matter what's happening, workers always have this right. It's a supposed right to be free and right to choose where one wants to be in life. Supposedly, you always have the right to quit. Yet so many times when we exercise this right, our bosses are nothing but miffed. What's the mentality of a boss that is mad when a worker exercise is a basic democratic right and…