Antiwork

I was promoted a little over a month ago and was promised a raise, in the contract I signed it shows the date my title changed and when my responsibility changed as well as the new pay rate. Its been two pay cycles since that date and I'm still being paid at the original rate. I was told some bullshit about the first pay cycle, that I had to wait till the next one because of some company policy my manager didn't elaborate on. On the second pay cycle I worked a shit load of overtime because people where calling in sick and I was filling in for them while also short staffed. I had to work a 16 hour shift, overnight followed by a fucking turn around. The only thing that got me through it was knowing that my paycheck was going to make up for it a little.…

I've been looking for work for months, applying anywhere I was remotely qualified for. I'm getting evicted, I can't pay my bills, I've been in poverty for years and struggling but the last few months have been really bad. JUST got hired at a fast food joint. I was so relieved. Then as I'm doing my onboarding I have to sign authorizing them to run a background check. Ok cool. Whatever. But I also had to authorize a full credit check. With a score check. My credit is screwed. I had worked really hard and had it up to a 630 4 years ago and got laid off. Defaulted on a lot of payments just trying to keep a roof over my head and food in my kids stomach. Credit score went down to a 485. I never got to a place where I could fully catch up. I have…

A month ago I snapped at a coworker for endless pestering me when I’m busy. She went and complained to the company owner who pulled me into a meeting. He pulled up my numbers and found I am doing a majority of the small sales. He asked me what was going on as lately I haven’t been my usually cheerful self. I laid out how the manager was shit, not doing his job, dumping tasks that aren’t my level on me. That I do 90% of the admin jobs, 100% of my sales jobs, have to smooth things over with pissed off customers that the manager insults, screws up their jobs, or generally talks down to. I said I’m tired of the manager and him not checking to see what I’m working on before throwing more at me. I do 99% of the design work for my clients even though…

So I had a phone interview for a teller job paying $17/hr. They already ran my credit and brought up a collections account during the interview. I explained the situation and the hiring manager told me it’s not an issue as of now but it can become one in the future and they may require me to provide documents to prove I am paying on the collections account. This seems odd to me? I understand that the banking industry runs credit credits, but if my credit is okay right now, why do I need to provide proof later that I’m paying on it while already employed? Does this seem weird to anyone else or is it normal in the banking industry to provide this documentation? I feel that’s personal and if they already ran my credit and said it’s fine, why can it become a problem in the future?

Most of our insanely smart people make 60-70k a year. We are being fucking robbed by an guy who inherited his company from his daddy and made all his college buddies execs. The meritocracy is a joke. And they wonder why we have such high turnover.

This was a few years ago but this sub has really helped me process how absolutely insane this was. I was working a part-time job at a mom/pop store during college. I woke up one morning to smoke and fire alarms. My entire apartment burned to the ground and I lost everything. The only thing I had were my car keys and cell phone. I called my boss and explained the situation, even sent photos. But no one was able to pick up my afternoon shift, so I was expected to come in. I had to go to Walmart with cash from the Red Cross to buy some clothes so I could dress for work. Money that should have gone to real necessities (you know, like food) had to be spent on jeans and a “nice” blouse. Thankfully I had awesome co-workers that donated clothes and other items to help…