Antiwork

Basically I work in a karaoke bar with private rooms and tonight, after my coworkers asked to see our tip breakdown (also worth noting we never get to see how much we make per night in tips at the end of our shift-our tips are on our check) i found out im making 5% of the karaoke room servers tips. Mind you the only way they can get drinks is from the bar, they only take the orders. We have bussers who run their drinks and clean the rooms. The bussers get a 10% cut from them, doubling what I make. We do not have a busy bar as karaoke is our main draw and most people Order drinks from their servers and we make them at the bar. Between 400/500 cocktails a shift on average. Now this isn’t all THE WORST, however, our managers handle karaoke most nights of…

TLDR Was making barely more to train new employees than those new employees were making. Threatened to quit, got my money I’ve worked for this company for nearly a decade. I moved across the country to work in their second facility. We manufacture things and my job is to train people how to manufacture those things. Sorry for vagueness, but the point is this: When I started out at the company, I made 12.50 an hour back in 2015. Six years later I was making 19, which sounds all right on paper. But in 2020 they started hiring new employees in at almost 18 an hour but not increasing existing employees wages. I’m not begrudging new employees making good money but how can a company value zero experience more than years of service? I carried my department. Most knowledgeable, most experienced, the go-to guy. There are lots of unappreciated people…

Okay so this has me pretty bamboozled not gonna lie. So I decided to leave my trade, to focus on getting into law school. As a result I took and unskilled job with a catering company, working in a freezer all day with minimal time out of the cold, under disrespectful management, and things were good, until winter came and they slowed me from full time to 20 hours. So I end up getting this job at a smoke shop, which pays $1 more per hour, values my work, and essentially allows me to smoke pot and meet friends for money. Now that hours are picking up and they’re overwhelmed and understaffed, they have asked and pressured me to quit my better job, without a raise or any other type of compensation, because “we need you more than them here” and I was written up for responding “I needed rent…