Antiwork

I've worked retail most of my life & for the first time, I've found a decent company. We're paid well. Our bosses are kind and focus on positive reinforcement. Our successes are cheered on, our failures are met as challenges we need to realistically overcome with helpful advice to get better. When our district manager visits, I have 0% anxiety. That is so weird to me! She's there to actually help, usually when we get a big shipment we need help with, and then she praises us for how well we're doing before leaving. Past district managers would berate us constantly, move around everything in the store, and make everyone ridiculously nervous before leaving. We get good PTO, it isn't a problem if I need to change my schedule sometimes, my boss who's the store manager isn't allowed to work more than 40 hours a week as a salaried person,…

So a bit of a rant, I have seen several posts, and indeed have known several people that have been short changed on pay, or flat out not paid for the work they have done. How can a living being (saying human gives too much credit) go to sleep at night knowing they are robbing people of the most precious thing they have, their time. Now disclaimer, I am a business owner. When covid was just getting started we had a couple of weeks of no income. I sold a car, and dug into my savings to make sure my employees got paid. I wasn't able to do their full salary, but it was enough to make sure everyone kept food in the table, because dispite being a registered LLC with 50+ employees I was denied a loan. Luckily we work in the I.T. sector, and business exploded. So what…

There have been a few discrepancies in the past, (along with every place ive ever worked at) and i know that they will scrimp and save on every dime that they can, and that wage theft accounts for the largest form of theft in the US. I just want to have the agency to track my own hours to compare against the hours that they have listed for me. Does anyone use any third-party apps that they use to track their own hours? I think it's important for everyone to track their own hours.

I was listening to this song and these lyrics really stuck out: Life is so unnerving For a servant who's not serving He's not whole without a soul to wait upon Ah, those good old days when we were useful Suddenly those good old days are gone WTF? Children’s media already programing us into a servant and boss class.

I think it's fair to say almost everyone has been fired or laid off at least once in life, at this point. When has an employer ever gone “Jeff we have to let you go, but we're giving you two weeks to figure it out.”? Um, never. Why should anyone give an employer a courtesy they would never get themselves? The idea seems asinine. BuT tHeY nEEd TiME tO fInD a RePlaCEmeNT… Well, studies show it takes three months on average to replace even a low level employee. Why is that any of our problem? The HR recruiter has to do their job and find talent regardless if we're there or not. It's just the cost of doing business.

I have a friend that works at walgreens and she says every night they have to have a manager check her purse every night after she leaves a shift. And sometimes it takes over fifteen minutes for her to leave after work because a Manger needs to check her purse after she has clocked off. Is this normal and legal? It just seems really weird and it even holds up the line with other customers in it. She said her privacy felt violated.

According to recent data, the average individual needs to make $30.77/hr to “only” pay 1/4 of their salary as rent each month. (The recommend amount) That number is wrong. Assuming you're saving 4% into a 401k, putting away $100/month into your HSA and the government is only taking out 25% in taxes you need $84,000/month or $40.38/hr. Or nearly 30% MORE than is quoted in the post. If you're making below $84,000k/year (nearly 85% of America) you literally can't meet the standard rent requirements on your own. We are fucked.