Antiwork

One of the biggest selling points in applying to my last job was that it was made of different unions. Every day, EVERY DAY, my co-workers would complain about our particular union. How our union rep does not really rep us because he was a lawyer who worked for the same company. (confict of interest?) A slew of requirements that ARE IN THE CONTRACT were never given to the staff and our big boss would not allow us to have. This is the kicker, the union secretary, a co-worker of mine informed us that all the grieviences that were filed for the last two years were completely ignored. Unions are great but some unions are better than others.

Feels like I’ve been cheated as I’ve been doing 65 hour weeks on average, working my arse off to try and dig myself out of financial doom. 85 hours of work and for what? Feeling fed up with all this. I work extremely hard and to see so much of my efforts be taken from me is soul crushing while big business is getting away with legal thievery

Just got my review and it was stellar. The raise for this was way below the increase in the cost of living, so it essentially up to be a pay reduction because of inflation for a great job. Heck, it doesn’t even cover my increase in rent this year. No COL adjustment seems to be coming. Just about to find out if there is a bump in benefit costs, but I am expecting there will be. I should be insulted and pissed right? Am I being greedy right now? What should I do moving forward?

Everyone else (about 45 other people) do hybrid WFH/come into the office. 3 days remote, 2 days in office. I sit in my office all day and for the majority of my time do nothing, and the rest of the time I sit on zoom meetings where most people are at home. On the days when people are in the office everyone sits in their personal offices with the doors closed. When I was hired I was told I would be coming into the office everyday, and I thought that was fine because I was under the assumption everyone else was in the office everyday too. Not to mention I work at a large facility where I have to park in a parking lot that’s outside of the facility and take a commuter bus to the facility. I waste an hour of my day just by doing this. How do…

I’ll try to keep it short. Work hvac/general maintenance at a large industrial plant….plant gets bought by new company, they make drastic changes….biggest being getting rid of the security/monitoring and giving all their duty’s to the maintenance workers…..we have about 20 people….4 have already quit including our lead technician….3 more I know are one foot out the door waiting on new job confirmation. I’m gonna stick around just to watch the place burn….(we were given the monitoring of the plant wide sprinkler system with no training so that could be quite literal) but basically I make 21/hour and I’m obviously asking for more money, where should I start? I think I’m gonna start at 32, lowest I’ll go is 28 or ️