Antiwork

I work at a dental office as a support staff. When I interviewed & got hired, it was clearly stated to me from my then manager, that after 6 months I get free basic dental care Well, It's been 6 months, made a hygiene appointment and got it done. Come payment time ($320) I tell reception it should all be covered under our basic benefit plan, they pass it off to one our higher ups (but not manager)who I'll call S. Next day I ask S if she can look into my file as it still says I owe money in my PT ledger. She says her & the dentists will have to talk about it, which confused me cause what is there to talk about? Come in today & she pulls me into the office & says “So after 6 months, we cover 50% & you pay the rest.…

So my Boss bought the small company I worked at last year in June. Ever since then the Job went to crap. Our job is the type of job that gets busy during the holiday. We got into it several times and he wrote me up. but here is the thing. he didn't actually give it to me for three weeks. He left my write-up on his desk with my name on it from Dec 21st to January 10th. When I knew I needed to quit was when he cut my hours to 10 hrs a week. When enough employees quit he had to raise my pay to over 20 dollars an hour to keep me. Now after the busiest time of the year, he tells me in a text message that he couldn't afford me but refused to lay me off. So I go in and work my five…

I’m converting more of our clients to paper documents. they pay more in expenses so they can suck it even if it will be a few dollars more lol

This isn't that revolutionary, but lunch breaks should be paid. I recently calculated my “real wage” by taking into account all the unpaid time I spend before/after the workday related to my job. I.e. things like commuting that I would not be doing otherwise. It was depressing! Anyway, I realized that 30 min of that time is during the workday: my lunch break. Yes, I'm technically not physically working during that time – but it's not like I get to go home or anything. I'm just sitting in the parking lot, yards away from the office, eating a cold lunch in my car. You would think a worker receiving enough sustenance to finish the work day benefits the company too. (Also, this applies to breaks too. I just work in a setting where non-lunch breaks are legally protected but not enforced/the norm.)

My 3-month review in December was fairly standard, not much that I haven't heard before from past employers. This is an office position, but I came from 20+ years of retail and service work experience, and I think you all know what that does to a person's mentality. I've unfortunately developed some toxic habits of being paranoid about my perceived fragile position in a company, and feeling the need to protect myself when I feel I've toe'd some imaginative line. So, as I was sitting there feeling fairly jaded to the feedback, my boss threw me a curve-ball. He said, “I can tell you've been under-appreciated in your past roles, and I'm hoping we can change that.” What he said stuck with me, however, I've heard similar things from past managers; describing how much they appreciate my hard work, but it's always hollow words or empty gestures. I asked about…

I get it. Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg bad. But there are industries controlling our government that have WAY more impact on the US/World than Tesla, Amazon, and Facebook. If we are actually going to achieve anything substantial we need to be slightly more serious and slightly less meme-ish. Going after the celebrity billionaires is not going to do anything. Just my two cents.