Antiwork

So I've seen talk in this sub about companies adding on duties to roles after being onboarded, and generally I've seen the consensus be that that is bullshit and shouldn't happen. I guess I'm looking for advice on when you believe an additional responsibility is okay, or when that addition is just the worker being taken advantage of. To be honest, I can't really tell when I'm being taken advantage of. I'm neurodivergent and struggle with reading between the lines. I like to be a team player, but generally when I start a job I ask for a very detailed outline of what my role entails. I like structure, so when I get an add on it can frustrate me. My fear is that this anger is sometimes irrational, because I also don't want to be an asshole. But for example, I was very clear with my current job about…

I was wondering what could be done to advocate for the working class? I would like to collaborate with others to brainstorm some ideas to make this sub more productive. DM me if interested.

So, I used to work for a cable company (the one with the infamously bad phone reps.) But I quit recently and I figured this would be a good a subreddit as any to post the story. But here's what drove me to that point. When I started it was literally just me and my manager in store. That's it. That was August and thankfully now they have more people there, in fact I helped to train some of them. What bothered me most was that corporate never did anything to offset that. Having a Kiosk for bill pays would've done wonders. When we finally did get a couple more people there, there were constant changes to in store procedures (including the hours of the place) with no warning. No courtesy email, no text message, nothing. Just sudden change. My manager, for the sake of privacy we'll call him C.…

Obviously we know price gouging is illegal. If one business increases the price of a gallon of water to $10 we simply wouldn't buy it – but if all businesses increase the price to $10, we have no other option. Even if 9 out of 10 businesses increase the price to $10 the 1 remaining business will run out of stock quickly. Replace that $10 gallon of water with “a job with a livable wage” …

Hear me out, that book/movie had, neglecting the child slave labor and terrible working/living conditions, a kind of fair working agreement: when you're done you're done. Would like to see that adopted more places. You got everything done you wanted in the first 2 hours? Enjoy your freedom from work the rest of the day!

I live in Puerto Rico (for those of you who don't know PR is a non incorporated US territory basically a Colony so our infrastructure mimics the US) Any how this state agency went and gave a conference looking for professionals, because after Hurricane Maria there's been a massive exodus of professionals to the states. Here's the catch, they want social workers (which I am), psychologist, admins, supervisors, etc. They never talked about the pay or benefits during the conference, their focus was “its a wonderful experience ” ” you are helping people” etc. Basically they pray on people's kindness and will to do good to hire them for slave wages. When my friend asked for the pay rate after the conference, they said, $1300 a month/$8.12 an hour. What a joke. No wonder everyone left looking for decent pay elsewhere.