Antiwork

This is in California. Other details changed for anonymity. My friend “Gary” got a job last year working at an office doing logistics. His offer letter stated his title, his salary of $20/hr, “health benefits” (verbatim), no PTO, and a start date. All of last year he got paid with a company business check (the type they use to purchase business items or pay bills on behalf of the company). He didn’t get a wage statement, no taxes taken and the health benefits he was offered were never given. When he brought it up to his employer, they stated it was coming soon, but it never came. This year he gets a 1099 instead of a W-2. His job entails doing the core responsibilities for the company. Including logistics, inventory, and customer service. Gary is upset because he feels he was swindled into being classified as a contractor instead of…

To unionize or not? Throwaway account with vague details, because. Working for a previously private company with a base salary and non-discretionary bonus/incentive plan with the option to work as much/little OT as desired. It made the average income vary pretty greatly from maybe 100k-200k. Company bought out by Big Evil Public company – has gotten rid of bonus/incentives without officially telling us, effectively cutting everyone's income down to about 45k (but stringing us along not telling us they for sure are gone – just asking us to be patient…. for the past4+ months). (also made health insurance worse, with only high deductible plans, less PTO, etc). Union formation is happening – but I'm not sure if the risk (are there risks?) is worth the benefit. How likely can the union negotiate salaries anywhere close to what we were making? I'm assuming there's no way they can negotiate to get…

Hi guys, A job i interviewed for wants to call on Tuesday to discuss pay. I looked through this sub for a comprehensive list of things to keep in mind/research/etc. ahead of time but didn't find one. I know to the goal is to get them to give a number first but how do you do that? I made a note of the breadth of skills I'm expected to have while in the interview as well. Any tips?

So I'm Scottish and my company is multinational, so I work with a number of people from North America and specifically from the U.S. Occasionally the topic of healthcare comes up (some of them live over here, some other places in Europe, some are still stateside), and to be perfectly honest, I sometimes feel nervous to ask for even the most basic (potentially traumatising) clarifications of my U.S. colleagues and friends when they tell me the latest thing they've been through. It just does not come intuitively to me. For instance, I cannot wrap my head around co-pays – they pay for insurance every month, that's the thing that comes out of their paycheque in the same way our taxes come out of ours, that's the equivalency I've seen drawn by people defending private healthcare (and usually disparaging ours in turn by highlighting our mind-blowing tax rates or whatever). Surely…

Obviously no one cares or remembers… But https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/qqdhnm/from_900_raise_to_10k_raise Im about 3 months in to the job. I love it. Im 90% remote. The other 10% is being flown by the company to sites/meetings. I'm not micromanged. 8 people on my team and we all work beyond well. No drama. Just people with the same goals. Now my previous position has been filled twice and is open again. I just laugh. I did give all my previous associates my contact information for reference purposes. The same with my former management staff. And to add fire to the pot, I'm still in a group text chat that includes all store managers in the district, the district manager and LP manager. So Saturday night I texted my former salary along with a screenshot of proof and a link to how its legal to talk salaries. Even thou I was paid low I was…

Three months. It was three months of working for this company before I finally hit my breaking point, although I should have left far far sooner then I did. This was for a company that owns many many convenience stores and car washes in the northeast. I was hired on as an MIT (manager in training) at one of their car wash locations. As of day one I was training myself because the “manager” would find every excuse to clock in then go home and not come back until time for him to clock out. I was routinely scheduled for 60 hour weeks, and got maybe one day off every two weeks if I was lucky. All for a whole 15.25 an hour. Then about a month ago the manager who was supposed to be training me on how to do the managerial stuff quit, so suddenly I’m manager of…