Antiwork

If we are negotiating the best wages for our labor, then aren't companies and HR in general holding the workers back from fair negotiation, or more specifically they're colluding on wages because of their standardization of compensation across an industry? Isn't placing a knowable quantity and limitation on compensation based on experience, age, variety of factors, and then having access to information of how much that's worth to competitors a way to keep those wages similar across the board? Isn't that collusion? I think that having a minimum wage is a baseline. Having collective contracts is also a helpful marker, but for those who are opposed to collective organizing, do they not realize that the very concept of HR and its digital tentacles (ie. LinkedIn, GlassDoor, etc…) are the reason why our wages have been so persistently low for decades? The wages are not merely artificially suppressed. They are suppressed…

I am currently going through onboarding at a major tech company (one of the best workplaces to work). The trainer keeps referring to their employees as a family and how much they care about their employees. This page has taught me whenever a company says they’re a “family” it’s an immediate red flag. I can’t decide if people actually feel that way and they do care about their employees or if it’s all fake….thoughts?

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I cant seem to catch a break in life. I am pretty much rock bottom at this point. I have been working shitty low paying miserable jobs. No girlfriend littlefriends and I am still stuck at my parents house. I also have autism an clinical depression so its not really helping me. How can people work like this for the next 30 years?

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I work at a bottling plant, and my job is to mix product, which is then sent to be bottled and packed for shipping. We had around 31000 bottles filled and packed today, and the lowest price I found for this product online was 3.29$. If you did the math, i helped blend almost 102,000$ in revenue to the company. I work for 13$/hr, which if I worked 40 hours each week, will net me 27,040$ a year (before taxes, which takes 20% of my pay, so I really earn 21,632$ a year; also, without considering overtime pay). I need to work almost 5 years (after taxes) just to earn what my company will make from the 31000 bottles worth of product I helped make to sale… And this was just one day, in a five-days a week job, 52 work weeks a year. In a year, that revenue (considering…

I’m young so forgive me if I’m wrong about this but where I live it is common for people to join electrician unions or plumbing unions etc. why don’t they have like accounting unions or unions for other white collar jobs?