Antiwork

I would like to hear different approaches to negotiating salaries in an interview with respect to the increase in minimum wage. For example: Minimum wage is $7.00/hr and you work in a field where you initially feel you are worth $20/hr for entry-level to intermediate positions. Over time minimum wage becomes $14/hr. What would you then feel to be appropriate to ask for? It should obviously be more to maintain a gap. I was just curious how other people go about it and if they have some method or calculation they use. You can throw in inflation and the cost of living too if you want.

I’m in a bit of a pickle and not sure how to proceed… I was recently offered a position with an amazing company, it is literally my dream role. Currently, I am employed for a diff company and my current position is fully remote. After receiving my new companies offer, they informed me there would be a background check/drug test. I had heard from others that due to the size of this company, the background checks can take some time. I did not want to give my notice to my current employer until the background check was cleared because current employer is fire happy (there have been several employees fired on the spot with no notice/warning since I’ve been there) and I can’t afford to not work in between old job and new. I was nervous that if I put a notice in before background check was complete with new…

I get paid semi-monthly. Pay day is the 15th and the last day of the month, except for when either of those falls on a weekend or holiday, in which case pay day will be the closest business day before the 15th or last day of the month. Pretty standard. I'm thinking about quitting abruptly right at the end of April. Problem is, April 30 this year is a Saturday. That means our end-of-month pay checks will come in on the morning of Friday April 29. If I hand in my immediate resignation on that day, will the company try to short me one day's pay because “I quit one day before the last day of the month” and try to make me pay back a calculation of one day's pay? The only reason I'm not quitting exactly on April 30 is because April 30 is a Saturday. What should…

I’m just curious if anybody would have any antiwork sentiments with Costco. They pay good but I wanna know if they go incognito with a bunch of shit they can get in trouble with too. I heard that even though they pay good, the management teams in each buildings usually suck and I just wanna know if it’s a place for a good opportunity too

That’s it, plain and simple. I worked for the company Securitas for almost 2 years and never used any vacation time. I just quit yesterday and now the DM refuses to pay me for my vacation time accrued. He says it’s company policy that since I quit, I forfeited all my vacation time. I’m trying to find the terms of the vacation policy that state these guidelines. Any advice?

Ever since learning that you guys in the USA don't even get a fucking CHAIR here for the lowest paid retail jobs, it's been driving me nuts. Like, some of the corporate BS I understand – I strongly disagree with it, but understand if it's purely about greed. You know, yachts are getting more expensive, growing a gap between the rich and the plebs can be seen as some weird RL tycoon game, etc… ​ However, this shit? What is this? Some collective junior manager level powertrip across the entire nation? It's like a fucking weird oligopolistic practice that almost all retailers participate in, but instead of being based around maximising profit (like big tobacco) it's concentrated on making one specific job as miserable as possible. It even flies in the land of lawsuits, where basically you can't be a cashier if you can't stand for several hours. Which is…

I work as a floating pharmacist and often have to work 11-12 hour shifts back to back (up to 72 hours per week). At first I was fine with it but after doing this for a few months I feel exhausted. Any tips or advice? Thanks

So my previous boss retired and I was primed to take his position.  The building manager (George) told me as much and said to make sure my attendance and work is great leading up to my yearly review (March 4th) and he'll put forth a request to promote me.  I have essentially been working as the lead for the 2.5 months since my boss had retired and more or less took this as a probationary period.  March rolled around and I asked George to have a short discussion in which I was just wondering about the status of the promotion given that I hadn't heard anything.  The talk went well and he said he plans on putting in the request with my review.  I had my review with my supervisor on the 4th and everything seemed to be going well until the discussion over that position came up in which…

So my current job is a support worker, it's easy graft just long hours. Ill do a day shift (which is pretty chill) then sleep at work and then finsh the following day 12pm or 2pm. So long hours. Sometime my weeks come up to 70hr weeks (which include sleep hours. I am looking to do an apprenticeship in dental nursing…. Then to work at a dentist for a few years and hopefully go onto cosmetic dentistry as thats where the money is. The advice I'm looking for is however, I only want to do 4 day work weeks. I am a grafter and sick of working over 40hrs as even tho it's sleep it's being away from home, family friends hobbys I am stuck at work. Will working in the dental Industry grant that 4 day work week or what do you think are the pros and cons? Going…

I feel like our generation is doing SO much more work because of the abilities a computer has vs what workers were expected to do and mentally handle in the 80s. Yes our computers can work way faster and more efficient but does that mean humans should be expected to do the same? Curious on the subs thought. #feelingburntout