Antiwork

I make 9 an hour plus tips which ends up being around 18 an hour at my barista job. Not a horrible gig, but a few people have quit recently for various reasons, and management has been having trouble finding applicants. I told a friend who is looking for work to apply. Great thing is, I’ve already worked with her before at another coffee shop and can vouch for her competence. When I mentioned this to a coworker and how I would be stoked to work together with her again, they said “Oh, well you’re probably not going to be able to work at the same location if you already know each other.” I’m sorry, what?? Has anyone ever heard of a policy like that? They said it’s because of a kind of “conflict of interest” and that at my coworkers old job, even if you started getting close with…

I received a callback on a resume I sent to an English school this morning. I'm a qualified English teacher with 5 years experience, he wanted me to start as soon as possible and was throwing words at me in strings I honestly could not understand. At one point after a barrage of information I simply replied “yes, those are all words” and he thought nothing of it. After digging through his lack of intelligibility we get to the hourly rate, I thought $25-30 to be fair and reasonable, on par with other offers I've been getting. Woah — hold on there horsey, “see… this is Australia and that doesn't make sense” he stated firmly, “we have a curriculum… And it is written, we don't charge you for training at all”. What? Their selling point is they don't expect me to pay for my own training? I've never had to…

Quick & simple. The reality is a simple fact that Employers need to pay all employees a reasonable wage, with benefits, vacation time, insurance & parental / emergency leave (for caretaking & otherwise). Nobody is willing to accept a job anymore that makes them grind & struggle just to get by month to month on a singular paycheck. It’s time to understand that the simple answer is likely the most true answer, Employees need to have livable wages, hours & conditions. There is no lack of labor, only a lack of properly providing opportunities of employment.

I just saw two domino's commercials in a row that encourage people to become delivery drivers, and then followed by doordash advertising being a dasher. They must really be hurting…. One commercial for domino's encourages customers to pick up ( in lieu of delivery) and they get a “$3 tip”. So they'd rather give money back to the customers than just pay drivers fairly?

It sucks that the ability to obtain a better job with better pay is determined largely by your job searching and interviewing skills, and random jive or not of personality traits with the interviewers and if you or they are having a rough day that day, more than your experience, skills, and ability fo perform the job competently. It's like this random element of chance being thrown in the way of your life decisions, and it hurts you psychologically and emotionally. I interviewed for a job as a part time bank teller. I am a currently employed bank teller who has worked at the same bank for 10 years. I wasn’t even picked to go to a 2nd interview. Im sorry I don’t have the correct rehearsed answers for stupid questions like “ what does the word excellence mean to you” I’m pretty defeated.

To preface this a little, I do love the place I work for and am treated very well. I work in the construction industry, but I also work very long hours. Around 65-90 hours a week. I love the people I work with which makes it even better. All I want is for my brother to at least enjoy who he works with. But sadly he only deals with his management over the phone ( he works from home taking calls from people trying to get permits to dig. ). Yesterday was his 90 day review, and apparently he takes around 20-30 more calls than the average rep each day, and his accuracy is around 97 percent, so he’s doing very good. He thought he was gonna get around a $2 an hour raise from $15 an hour to $17 based off his performance. What they actually gave him was…