Antiwork

Do we agree the customer is usually wrong?

I'm honestly baffled. Like, I knew it was true. But I didn't know HOW true. My last post here about a month and a half ago here, I posted how I was putting in my 2 weeks at my gig in the Restaurant Industry, corporate office. I'm happily at my new job, and today had lunch with my old gossip buddy. “Now that you don't work here I can tell you the real juicy stuff” she said. By “real juicy stuff” she meant numbers. The COO of the company – not the owners (aka the founders' children) – The COO's bonus was almost HALF A MILLION DOLLARS for 2021. This is the same company that did not give me a raise last year. This is the same company who is about to have a meeting between all the higher-ups because their best Bookkeeper wants to be at $25 an hour,…

I was laid-off 3 weeks ago from my Marketing Manager role. I was hired in March of 2021. Prior to my hire the entire Marketing dept was furloughed and outsourced. I was brought on as the first member of “Marketing Team 2.0”. After about a month I grew to dread the role, solely because of the incredibly uneducated C-Suite. Basically President, CEO, CIO, HR VPs who shouldn't hold those titles, but have them cause they've been in the company for 25+ yrs. Nothing moves in the company until the President approves or denies it. There was always a lack of professionalism and respect. Which is awful considering this is a mid-size global corp. Alot of off-color comments, Biased treatment, Reckless safety protocol (lack thereof) for COVID, bad wages, HUGE distrust in employees, dangerously poor communication, old/out-dated crap software, alongside just other lack-luster conditions. Imagine, the company was founded in 1991,…

1: minimum wage is calculated based on available housing food prices gas….. also instead of a flat number that is constantly shifting in value. it adjusts with the value of a dollar as a percentage. 2: Money will be digital. More money will be printed to to incentives the rich to spend money and everyone, including the rich will receive UBI. This is not redundant because if the rich own 1,000,000,000 a percentage of that will be more than a living wage, UBI. Money made from us business 3: Politicians can no longer accept donations. Company money must be accounted for. Pay has a cap on it. oversees transfers limited/ accounted for….

If we exclude the burnout caused from the pandemic, has burnout from work gotten worse in the past, say, 20 years? Or was burnout just not talked about as much in the years before? We don't/didn't hear so much about burnout in the 90's or prior to this, despite the fact that automation was less prominent and a decent number of careers required more physical work on employees' parts than they do now. Burnout from being work is brought up a lot nowadays, and so many more people seem tired and unable to have a healthy work/home lifestyle. Is this due to a change in work, or has it been part of working this whole time but not as openly addressed in the past?

I’ve worked as a commercial lender at a bank for 2 years. I stated the week covid shutdowns began. I feel I have learned quickly but covid has changed the natural flow of things. I was asked to cover as the president of a market an hour away due to a termination. 2/3 days a week there plus my normal responsibilities from Oct-mid January. I was offered to move there to become the market president, but had just bought a house where I am now and my fiancé and I didn’t want to move. I am also the president of a non profit in town. When I was hired, I was promised “about $50k salary, plus bonus”. I have received a 2.5% raise each of my 2 years, and a $1,000 bonus. I have never even touched $50,000. Is this a typical salary? Or am I getting screwed m