Antiwork

I work for Big Evil company in Texas, company has employees in all states. We have received a significant % of our income as non-discretionary bonuses paid monthly (ie $ per job completed) (about 40+% of my income was bonus pay). We have been approached by a law firm that is filing suit saying our overtime pay should have been calculated using the bonus pay – it was only calculated using base pay (which in my case is significantly less than my actual income). The law firm claims they will ask for double what’s owed and will take 40% of what’s awarded. What I’m unsure of; does this need to be something I/we need a lawyer for? Is 40% reasonable? Can it be something I can DIY? If the suit goes forth, wouldn’t Big Evil have to pay all employees that are owed and not just the ones signed with…

Seeing a thank you video from many of the executives on the front page of our companies intranet. Then also just got an email about free scoop of ice cream or ice pop weekend!! Wooohooo. Now I can show my mortgage lender the video and they will waive this months mortgage! I can likely just give the ice cream to the IRS and they will send me back the money I paid in taxes this year! I’m ecstatic! /s

Alright so I joined this small company of 3 people 9 months ago as a graphic designer, They told me that I had to bring my own equipment for work which was a huge red flag but I was very naïve and I didn't know any better so I agreed. At first everything seemed fine, the 2 of the people in the company were partners who were my bosses let's call them john and annie, at first i got the feeling john didn't like me (i still remember how he talked about using (“fresh graduates for a job for free as they are easily exploited” yeah that's right those were his words) but i shrugged it off and i got along just fine with annie and she wasn't really a bad person but she did some things which were very questionable. So let's talk about the things that really drove…

I haven't stopped thinking about it. If I die while I'm still working for my shitty company, I would never want to see my death so casually dismissed like this. What the fuck. This was a person. They don't deserve to have their death announced to some random employee in a different company along with their new hiree. This was extremely upsetting to me and I don't know what to do about it. They could have just said they had hired someone else and I wouldn't have been haunted by their display of sheer corporate dehumanization.

I know this will get lost in the feeds but here goes anyway. At my wife’s work, like everywhere else, they were extremely understaffed. They brought in a third party company at great expense to fill the labor gap but management soon realized that it would be cheaper to increase wages and hire more permanent staff so after they increased wages by 0.50¢/hour they were able to hire a couple of more people but still people were unsatisfied. Every weekend and holiday management would put a call out for volunteers to pick up extra shifts and every weekend they would go short staffed because no one would take them. After a month of this, management started offering gift cards in the amount of $50 for a half shift, 100$ for a full shift and 150$ for graveyard shift. Wouldn’t you know it. After that they no longer had any trouble…

Healthcare, housing, government control, police brutality, etc, etc. Convince your coworkers, friends, and family to not work until this backwards ass country is corrected. Demand equal pay, pay raises in line with inflation, if even a small percentage of people just stopped working, this country would come to a grinding halt. Companies would lose money, and the government would panic. We have so much power as a group.