Antiwork

A friend and I had a small business years ago that shut down for reasons. It was basically us trying to make our hobbies pay for themselves (it honestly didn't do too bad, just not well enough to grow beyond what it was). Anyway, now that I'm looking for a “career” level job, I figure I should try to use it. Here's my question: if I pop it on my resume, what are employers able to see? How deep can they usually dig if they wanted to? Or another way of asking: how can I prevent the discovery of potential untruths?

So I’m about to be moving jobs, nothing too major. I’ve been working retail for about 3 years now and currently make around 16 1/2 an hour (couple benefits but it’s retail so ya know) and the new place starts at 17 (about all I know) factory work, I’m hoping to haggle for a bit more than a 50¢ raise and better hours. I’m just unsure how to pitch a higher price without offending (I’m only on job number 2 going into 3 so not a lot of experience). In Michigan if it matters

I went to a secondary training educational program to become a sys admin. It’s a course we we attend for 7 months and we learn all about administration. The school helps us create a resume that outshines our actual skills and experience. Anyways, I finally got a job as a sys asmin. And initially it was laid back and not as stressful. But as time went on and as I grew older I started to question whether I want to keep this career. I feel as if I’m not technical enough and lack the skills sysAdmins have which makes it hard to understand everything especially technical things. I also do not have the motivation or drive to continue learning about it. Today I got a message from my project lead that the second sysadmin on the team will be moving to a different project in the company. I relied on…

So I'm debating on going to college but I dont know what classes I should take and from what I've seen on this sub a lot of y'all have degrees that you cant use or employers just refuse to pay right for.Any tips on what I should do so I'm not wasting my money on something that is just a worthless piece of paper.Hope this allowed and thanks for any responses

My company's annual compensation adjustment conversations will take place in the last two weeks of March. After sifting through the chafe on my company's little corner of the Blind app, I have a very realistic idea of how much my base salary will increase this year, and it doesn't make me happy. I have been studying and applying to places already, but per the usual advice I'm not indicating as such to my coworkers. HOWEVER…I'm wondering if it will at least do some amount of good to transparently say “Hey, some raise is better than none, but this isn't good enough to keep my around much longer.” In all seriousness, has anyone ever straight-up told their manager that they're job seeking? Did it ever lead to a genuine conversation about work culture, salary inversion, productivity expectations, incentive structures, etc? Or does it only ever sour the relationship? I actually like…

Okay, so this has been happening for a while now. My supervisor gets incredibly defensive when we call out bullshit and just disregards our complains and makes sarcastic little comments like she's talking to 5yo that don't know any better. Yesterday, we were told that the system that keeps track of how many support tickets we close is not working properly and that every morning before our shift we have to check that very same system and fill out a form that keeps track of how many we closed the day before. Today I checked and submitted 6, all good so far. Later I had to teach a teammate how to do it, and the count was up to 33. I told my sup about it and she said she'd check it later. I asked her to check as soon as possible because if the real number is 33 and…

Reported it to boss, but now I know there is a group doing it, considering quitting because it keeps happening.

For the last few years I’ve maintained two jobs part time, one small family business and one large corp business, for the benefit of working with a small team who (I thought) appreciated and cared about me and one who gave be benefits and paid vacation. I always thought working for a small business was worth it and ‘not like other jobs’. After seven years I came into work to hear my boss (small business) degrading me and saying lies about me to a coworker. I (obviously) got angry, told them I deserve and apology or I’ll never be back and left. Never got an apology and never went back. This was at the end of November. Fast forward to now and I have yet to receive a W2 to file my taxes. I contacted them multiple times and couldn’t get a response other than ‘we sent it out in…

I was recently informed that a coworker and supervisor are leaving the agency. And another coworker possibly on the way out. Our office is small and there have been recent closures of buildings in the agency. I feel like everyone knew something except me, as to why so many are comfortably leaving. I am suspicious about any and everyone in general (my personality trait).