Antiwork

Is this allowed? Am I justified in demanding pay for my time spent?

Posting from a throwaway, second attempt since the first one was picked up by automod because the account was less than three days old (sorry!). Apologies for the rant, but I need to vent and distract myself from my 'job'. I work in the general scope of software. I work for a company that spent three days in a virtual town hall bragging about how ahead of the curve we were during the pandemic, how much we care about people both inside and outside the company, and how we made record profits. Since starting here a little over a year ago, I have taken initiative, learned stuff beyond the original scope of my job, helped write new policies, and have single handedly run a job that usually requires at least two people while my coworker was on paternity. During this time, there were zero complaints about my performance, and plenty…

I apologize if this ends up being long. And I’m sorry if the paragraphs are badly written, I’m on phone and still upset/emotional. Today I am finally done being passive and kind to my workplace. They have bitten the hand that feeds them too many times and I can’t handle it anymore. To preface this, I have worked here for around 4 years sans a few months I was off for school. I always worked part-time, 2 days a week because I was in school. Recently, after the months off for school I returned to work 3 nights a week. I was only supposed to work two nights at one brand (my work is a plaza and we have 4 brands, I work for two brands), but they asked me if I could work at the second brand because they needed someone, and had to close on these nights because…

I hear 9-5 and always think that sounds great, all the office jobs Ive worked and friends have worked are 9 hour days. We have the option of taking an hour for lunch but theres often meetings during that time, its not the at all the norm to be unavailable for an hour every day. Wondering what others have experienced. I’m in NYC, I know this varies a lot by country and city/state.

My friend is a graphic designer,and quite frankly too trusting. I have finally succeeded in drilling it in his head that if any potential client or employer asks for a sample of his work,then he needs to either A: give a partially completed piece that shows off what he can do but can't be used B: Watermark it. I convinced him because I basically told him word for word how an interaction with a seedy sounding client was going to go without having seen it.he didn't believe me,and got burned. Company: “If you're not able to remove the water mark,then I'm sorry,we won't be able to consider you for employment” Me: “there won't be any employment. This is a tactic they're using to get free work. If you give in,they will take it and ghost.” Sure enough that's exactly what happened. Days of work and a good chunk of change…

This is a public tech company bringing 100s of millions in profit per quarter. To make it better, I will pay TAX on the 15$ in my next pay check! I declined and let them know they could split it between themselves