Antiwork

I was getting a second job working in a lab for 25 hours a week. Pay was was okay. $15 is better than $8. I passed the interview with flying colors. The only issue with them is I'm double vaxxed and not triple vaxxed. I didn't want to get it because to me I believe with never having it and being in good health I didn't need 3. They told me if I didn't get it I'd have to sign a paper that stated if I got covid I wouldn't get covid pay. No problem I'll get the shot. And I did get the third shot. I sent them the new card. They told me the night before I started for 2 weeks I'd need to take covid tests before every shift. I said no problem because I'm not sick. So no worries. When I got there they told me…

During the interview the hiring manager asked what salary I wanted. I replied with the median salary for the job title based on Bureau of Labor Statistics’ data. He said that should be okay. When he made the job offer, it was 20% less than I asked for. He said that HR wouldn’t pay what I asked for because I hadn’t held the job title for the number of years on their pay grid. I turned down the HR offer. He said he might get them to bump up the offer. (I’m guessing less than 5% of their initial offer.) I said no. I didn’t tell him that the day before I had gotten an offer about 50% more than what I had asked for during the interview with him. My new gig not only paid more, it was a fun, no BS team.

We make posts about civil disobedience all the tome, we make these plans to do it, but it seems to never happen. With the internet, we have a bigger platform than ever to organize these events on, much better than our predecessors did. Yet, we can't seem do organize, strike, and do civil disobedience at the same level. What happened? There's over a million of us. We constantly talk a big talk, we bark, yet never bite. I see so many posts about how we need to stand up against the evil coroporations, and our government who's supporting them, even a whole sub based on one strike, but it never happens. The majority of us here are Americans, protest is something we've been good at since the founding of our country. Are we really too beaten down & supressed to even fight for what we believe in?

Her work has a policy that you can't call in, even for emergencies or if you're deathly sick, unless you find someone to cover for you. If no one can cover, you are still responsible for the shift, and if you can't come in because, again, emergency, it counts on your record as a no show. Yes, we are both aware that this is a terrible call in policy, but she loves the work so she doesn't want to quit. Today she had requested off because a close family member is hosting a get together. She (my wife's aunt) was diagnosed with cancer one year ago and was given only a few months to live at that point. She's made it an entire year and she feels like celebrating, and we feel like celebrating with her. Her manager scheduled her anyway. My wife called everyone to try to get someone…

I've already put in my two weeks but that doesnt stop customers being the absolute worst people in the fucking world. Yes managers are shitty, yes coworkers are shitty, but there is nothing worse than a customer yelling at you for something that they are wrong about! Yesterday I was telling some guy that he can't pay X price on something if he adds X to it. It will be a different item and therefore cost way more. “But someone did it last time and it was no problem” I don't care, they were wrong, I don't know you, you are rude. He then proceeds to cuss me out and say he, “doesn't fucking care, just do it” Theeeennnn my shift lead pulls out the “I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry” to him when I we have literally nothing to be sorry for. This asshole was in the wrong and…

5 people in my department called in sick today, on the busiest day of the week, yet I still get paid the same amount (minimum wage). Feels great working in retail.

It is sad and tiring to read yet another post about someone being fired for giving notice. A fair contract might be what is the norm where notice period os governed by law, i.e. to be fired without cause, you have to either receive notice or, if the company doesn't want you working the notice period, be paid in full for that period. With these terms, if they fire you for giving notice, they are still on hook for the notice period. I would go as far as asking in the interview: “Do you require notice if I quit? I would only give notce if I also get it if I am laid off. Can we put this agreement in writing?” Sure you might not be in position to do this and risk losing the position (from a shitty boss, at least). But someone has to start to change this…