Antiwork

I have worked for Target in one of their distribution centers for the past 3 years. It used to be an amazing place to work: I would come in early, take on extra responsibilities, take on projects, and generally take the initiative to learn how to do everything in the building. The management was primarily made up of tenured team members who had been promoted, so they were knowledgeable about their roles and had good relationships with their teams. Since COVID, however, a lot of tenured management has left and they've been replaced with a bunch of early-20-somethings fresh out of college who have never worked or touched a box in their lives. They make up for their lack of general adult knowledge by being insufferably militaristic about silly rules (clear water bottles, bathroom break times, etc) and deferring most of their responsibilities to trainers and tenured employees. Among the…

Inflation is up 8.5% in the last 12 months alone. This means if you didn’t get a pay increase of 8.5% from your job within the last year, you technically got a pay decrease of 8.5% this year. I am in that boat smh. Who else is with me?

Found this on Quora. I don't know if it is true or not, but I've always wondered what happens if you build up bills after you die. https://preview.redd.it/wom7u75gs6t81.jpg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c565c809969096707500ae08eacd401fa795032

One of the first things I was told starting a retail job was to look into joining a union by a colleague. I'm still not entirely sure what they are or anything about them really yet I hear about them. I find it also confusing because I've heard people say if you haven't worked long they can drop you or something so there's pros and cons to a union? Can anyone help me understand it.

WFH for a MAJOR corporation for over 2 years due to pandemic. asked for a mouse & was told to “just buy one like we all did”. Saved the email. Later contacted by Law firm who is suing the employer for not paying full wages during pandemic (lowered our salary twice during the pandemic) but made us work more hours (yes, for less money). I sent the law firm the email and my receipt for the mouse. Now they're getting hit with not compensating over 5000 employees for office supplies.

I was a college professor for 20 years—even tenured, full professor at the end of my teaching career. The unjust nature of adjunct teaching is well known, well documented, and worthy of its own post. But that’s not the story I’m telling today: Several years ago there was a bill before the state legislature to change the definition of an “exempt” employee. The proposed law said that if an employee made less than $50,000 per year, they could not be considered exempt and had to be fairly compensated for their hours and any overtime they worked. The problem was, my small, liberal arts school had built its athletic dept on the backs of people making $16-18,000 a year (euphemistically called a “stipend”). These individuals were required to recruit, train, and coach. At times their weeks would approach 80-100 hours, and if their teams lost they’d be fired. They did it…