Antiwork

I work alone as a salaried employee. My coworkers at the sister office said I can go home when there’s no more work at the office I’ll be at. Wanted word from my boss who told me that when work is done, ask if anyone in the office needs help and if not then I’m good to go. Today, I got done before noon. There were no more appointments, no help needed, so I left. I told the front desk I was heading out. I got a call just now that the front desk needed me because some work showed up. I told them I left for the day because the schedule was cleared. They said no worries, they’ll schedule the work for another office location. And then my boss called. An office manager lit her up because there was nobody there to do the work. My boss then asked…

I have been working for a small business in a technical field since graduating from college about 4 years ago. The business I work for is small, I was their first employee, and am currently one of four. Over the holidays and start of the new year I began chatting with colleagues from other, larger businesses in the industry about salary, since I don’t have a peer group to discuss this with at my workplace. Ultimately, I discovered I am getting paid significantly less than my peer group, by around $15,000-20,000, and I do not get paid overtime like they do. Initially I was taken aback, and tried to rationalize that the circumstances are different since the company I work for is so small. After many long chats with family and friends, I know my work experience and time is valuable and I deserve to be compensated as such. So…

The parents will hate and blame them but it's the only way to get this horrible poverty loop some attention.

I told my boss I have recruiters reaching out to me with 40-50% base increases, not including absurd bonus targets, fully remote jobs to lower my cost of living and this firm comes back to me with 2.2%?! In this inflation?! Cool. Bye. I have a second round interview tomorrow and have 5 recruiters in my inbox in the last 24 hours. Bye!