Antiwork

Background: I decided to move away from direct social services (low salary) and towards administration/policy (high salary). However, I like doing direct care work and want a strong application for the grad program I'm interested in. I found a part time job (48 hrs a MONTH) at a local women's shelter, one that I knew from a previous job and had many positive interactions with. The pay is low compared to my cost of living ($19/hr) but it is not my main income, so I'm fine with it. : As part of my hiring documents, I had to get a document notarized and obtain a 3yr motor vehicle report. Both of which were about $6 each and I was expected to cover the costs myself. : The training schedule is all on Zoom (yay!) but there's about 3 hrs worth of mandatory, “on your own” training. Aka, not being paid…

I’ve been in my current role for 4 years and have received $1 raise throughout the duration of my employment. I literately cannot afford to work there. I asked for double my salary, which they of course can’t do. However, my boss is “allegedly” negotiating a 25K raise for me, but it’s been dragging on. I know that the job posting is still up from my notice, but they said they are pausing interviews. A recruiter sends me MY CURRENT ROLE to me on LinkedIn and via email. “Your profile really stood out to me” HA. The title has changed to VIP admin assistant, but bull shit titles are a whole other conversation. They are offering a salary range of 5K-15K above my current pay but still well under what the job is worth. It’s been known that there is little to no mobility in my role unless my boss…

It seems almost half the posts on here are reposts. Recently someone made up an entire text exchange with an imaginary boss just for upvotes and to promote their only fans. Seriously, this use to be a great place to discuss work reform but now it’s turned into any other sub on Reddit. Full of karma bots and reposts and nothing is being done about it. I feel like I can’t even trust half the stories I read now. This entire movement is losing my trust and hope. Edit: and we still haven’t recovered from the interview disaster, or the several other interviews they did/agreed to do while claiming they speak for all of us. Some of the same people are still here moderating this subreddit.

To whom it may concern, I have worked for WP for 5 months and in that time I have learned that: a. Corporate leadership or should I say Dave and Neil are the most tone deaf people I have encountered. As a part time employee who makes 15.25/hr, I do not really care about WP's successes in making millions of dollars as they like to tout in their randomly sent “assignments.” How am I benefitting from making these assholes rich? b. WP has reduced us all to numbers using metrics to gauge our productivity. I feel that is degrading and dehumanizing. We are people, not numbers and produce much more than WP gives us credit for. They look at the numbers and miss the big picture of how we all connect with and serve WP customers; there-by making them millions and getting nothing in return aside from a smile and…

I saw a post in here earlier today about not working for small businesses and I can’t agree more. Back in Nov, I left a steady (but toxic) job with benefits bc my friend/stylist offered me a receptionist job in her salon that was at the time pulling in over 70 new people a month and on track to be a million dollar salon in 5 years. It seemed like a perfect solution to how burnt out I was at the time. In the beginning it was great and I was much happier, had 37 hours (less than the 40 agreed upon), and had the holidays and Sundays off to spend with my family. Then, one of the lead stylists left and everything went to shit. We weren’t making money and were in the red and kept having subpar work leave the salon. In Jan, the only reason we survived…

This was not me, but to summarise: The CEO started the call (imagine a corporate AMA) and decided to virtue signal about Ukraine by reading a part of the lords prayer. Then they went on to brag and more virtue signalling about the gender pay gap being “addressed” Then this guy pipes up and says something like “So do you encourage people to talk about how much they are being paid to make sure everyone is being paid fairly?” The look on the CEOs face after he realised what he just read out on autopilot mode, he then says “I think everyone already does (they don't) if I did say yes, that's all anyone would talk about and nothing would get done. He then repeats his mistake by reading the next comment out where another person says “The only person who benefits from not talking about your pay is your…

TL;DR Bosses tell man to keep working instead of retiring to heal from early loss of son, and is somehow a good thing. I am posting the text rather than linking the post, in case we have well meaning folks storm over there to speak the truth on a post where a man is talking about his dead son, in the event that it happens to be true. But here's the text: A year ago we learnt something was wrong with our son Jack. He had just moved into his first house, and was engaged at the age of 28. A few weeks later we were told he had a rare incurable cancer. Jack died in January 2022 at the age of 29. Something inside me died with him. It was the most difficult year of my life and I miss him every single day. A few weeks ago I…

*for sale The amount of offices spaces being passed off as “2-3 bedroom” apartments or maisonettes is both sad and hilarious. So the master bedroom is a conference room, and bedroom 2 is an office, and the kitchen is the break room… I guess it might be a fun project to try to make a home out of these places with glass walls and mutilple coffee/tea sideboards LOL

Long story short was told that me and a coworker were having too much fun, and having fun = less work done, from my boss apparently. Manager said we were doing our work quickly, but boss doesn't like people talking ¯_(ツ)_/¯ I'm tired of this, if work gets done on time, who gives a fuck? Back to looking for a new job then.