Antiwork

I was hired back in August, had my probation review in November where I was told a would receive a significant raise in 2/3 months after the company goes through its staffing changes (nothing happened just hired/fired a few guys in our high turnover warehouse). So I wait the 3 months which was in February and I approach the owner and ask about it and I get an excuse “oh im just working through the numbers, give me a few days”, I ask him the next week he said “we do company raises and reviews in March”, I ask when in March I am told Mid March. Mid march was last week and it passed and I didn't say anything, at the end of the week the VP of sales says next week we are starting the performance reviews. Next week is this week, i've seen these guys doing no…

I worked for a small family business in the UK, owned and ran by two brothers, with 10 staff. One day a work colleague called to say he discovered his father's body slumped in his favorite chair that morning. The boss asked “Are you still coming into work?” when he was told no “What about tomorrow? Do you have enough holiday to cover?” The factory unit got broken into so they set up cameras, pointing at the work area. They would check up on activity whilst out of the office / on holiday and phone us if they saw us not working. Illegal in the UK. One of the brothers moaned at me because I had been gone for 7 minutes. “I went for a piss” was my offended reply, “For 7 minutes?” “Your lucky I didn't need a shit” A colleague slipped on oil that had leaked from a…

I’m relatively young and don’t really understand. Everything in America is much more expensive at the moment. Gas is up, groceries are up, utilities are up and my rent just went up $100+ a month. I understand how the chain works. Prices went up. Oil companies still want to make more money so they pass the raise to the consumer. Same with electric. Same with my landlord. Same with the company i work for, we are increasing our prices next month. The problem is none of that gets passed down. Let’s use my landlord as an example. His life got more expensive due to all the price increases. He said “Hey I’m raising rent” so now i pay more and he gets to the live the same life because of me. Who are we supposed to fall on? My roommate and I happened to get promotions and raises last month…

First I work in HVAC Company #1 Advertising as a large company with 100+ employees. Good work life balance, competitive pay and benefits… Was a shop for commercial refraction that covered over half the state, was 7 guys total. Most when I talked to them before the interview said they pull 16 hours a day. Then manager discredited all my higher education and tried offering $15 an hour starting. My Response: walked out on him mid sentence after he gave the offer and said my education didn’t matter. Company #2 Again advertised as a larger commercial company. Get there and it’s the main “boss” his wife is the office manager, daughter is the dispatcher. He has only 2 techs and said “I had to let one guy go for violating company policy and another guy left because we had a conflict where he felt we over promised him. Guy had…

So I need blinds… I go and almost immediately am like “boom. Those.” text my gf and she also says (unpromted) “boom. Those.” So I'm not handy or anything so I go to the desk and it's almost like. I've intruppted something… So I apologize… To the man on my left who is looking like he wants to help and stumble around asking how pricing works on custom blinds, I think it came out something like “so if I were to add… Uh… What is the most for blinds” yep my brain doesn't work most times. There are 3 people Left ro right New guy (older, skinny, maybe 55-60?) Manager, we'll call her Gilda (mid 40s, sternish, short responses, to the point, wants to gtfo of holding new guys hand) Other dude, we'll call him Dennis (early 50s (bigger, louder, on the phone amongst the entire time) So Gilda looks…

I‘ve been working at my retail store for five months now and have had two reviews in total, with literally all good things in them. I make $18/hr and they told me I needed to wait until my six month review because that’s generally when they do raises. I didn’t even call it a raise, I just told them that in Los Angeles, $18/hr is not a living wage. They didn’t even disagree with me, they just told me that the pay is good for a retail job. I’m nearly 30 years old and I’m expected to work my ass off for this company, open to close, with constant improvement— all while they cannot even provide myself or any of my coworkers with enough money to cover the average rent of $2500/mo to live in the city they built a store in. I feel so discouraged and defeated and disrespected.…