Antiwork

Posting before I get banned again If he's reading this sub, he'll know who I am, but what are the chances of that. It was a few years ago anyway. Dude was a psychopath. We had a few wage theft scandals in Australia, over the last few years, and his fast food takeout place was ground zero for one of the first. He was done over for tens of thousands of dollars for underpaying his staff, his delivery drivers etc. It was all over the papers and triggered a nationwide investigation into the chain. Mug me, needed a job, had plenty of experience working in the industry, so I started working there a few months after the scandal blew over. To be fair I didn't know it was the wage scandal store until after I accepted the job and started working there. Assistant manager, but really, assistant to the store…

Just wanted to share. I live in Scotland. During the last two years I have been a “key worker” within a social care setting in a caring roll. I like my job and though it can be challenging at times it makes me feel good about helping others. In Scotland our leader (First minister) pledged a £500 bonus to all frontline NHS and social care workers who had been put in danger by continuing to support the most vulnerable and sick members of our society during the pandemic. On the surface this sounds great, until you find out that it would be taxed! So £500 becomes about £380… no big deal. Its still extra money I tell myself. However, I would not even be entitled to that according to the powers that be. So my wife was an accounts assistant. Fresh from uni with her degree and ready to work.…

I applied to an internal position in my company. It was a lot more responsibilities and graded significantly higher than my current role. After a 5 month long grueling process during which the woman who was leaving even started her handover to me, they offered me the role. At the same grade, at the same salary. I politely asked a few times if it could be revised, and made a business case for it (experience, time in current role/grade, extent of role expansion etc) but to no avail. I rejected their offer and decided to stay in current role while I look for another job. Today I found out they're getting someone externally who has lesser experience than me (and obviously no experience of internal processes) at 1.5 times my pay and a higher grade. Why do companies do this?

Well, I just got fired because some HR lady (witch) got beef with me for A: not accepting that A manager commanded me to pick up my private phone to discuss covid information I already knew while I was driving home to go in quarantaine (my colleague had covid). I told him to be calm and I'll call him back in 10 minuten when I got home, as a reply I got 'no,now!'. As I am not a dog I will not accept this behaviour. We got a talk about it with HR, and for them the situation was done after the manager said that I didn't understand him correctly, which isn't the same as saying you're sorry. The second beef : B is because of a external screening company who started calling and mailing me 5x a day for the same documents that I already send them, after a…

I'm mostly here to learn about other folks' struggles and learn from them, but ended up with my own tale. I'm doing snow/ice clearing with trucks & loaders, and been with this company for the last two winters. For those unfamiliar, this means pushing snow from one spot to another spot that's more out of the way, or dropping an entire McDonald's worth of salt on the ground to melt snow & ice. The company itself is decent, mostly just the usual growing pains, bureaucracy, and occasional lack of communication you see everywhere, but that's a separate tragedy. Coincidentally, it's also very difficult to find and then retain reliable staff for snow clearing, but that's a separate tragedy. I started out with a ~30 minute commute, but I moved farther away for ReasonsTM. Was going to work for a closer company, but they offered a 10% raise and 25% higher…

so i work for a pretty large product based company. i mean we are a pretty well known household brand. part of our company is ran in a certain business segment. very few people. i mean myself and this other coworker basically run the whole thing. there are a bunch of people they hire under us. not the most skilled but that’s because they want to pay them dirt well we have been on the brink of some shit blowing up. neither of us are able to take vacation because this part of the business can’t operate without us. i hate it here. it’s been 4 years of at least 50 hour work weeks. a couple of months back i started looking for jobs. i just got one and was getting ready to put in my 2 weeks. well my buddy who also is apparently the only Einstein with me,…

Looking at the posts on this sub I decided to ask a recruiter the salary range. To my surprise they gave me an estimation(the recruitor didn't know for sure because I wasn't considered for a specific post, at least not to my understanding, and they were going to decide after the technical interview if I am a good fit for any open position) based on my level of experience and other salaries in the company. The range was a lot higher than I expected, higher than I would have had the courage to ask for if I were to be the first to give a salary range. I had a friend try the same thing and they didn't give her an estimation in text. They told her they will discuss that when they will have the final interview(which is usually after the technical interview).