Antiwork

EDIT: Sorry I'm dumb and formatted the original bad so I'm reposting. I work for a company that is moving states and being laid off at the end of the month. Due to a non compete though I feel like I'm now blocked from working in the same industry for another company. I expressed interest in travel for the current company but I feel like they kept us in the dark and after trying for a few months they finally say they didn't have a position for me. I then found a new company is about to start the same thing and I even interviewed with them and felt confident I would get the job but after reviewing my paperwork looks like I am on a non compete for 2 years. I understand not wanting to possibly have company info leak to a competitor but I feel like now I…

Not sure if this is the place for this, but I figured I'd share a thought I've been thinking about for a while… Worker cooperatives should be commonplace, all over the planet. (If you are unfamiliar with worker co-ops, I highly recommend looking into them. But just so we're all on the same page, they're businesses that are own completely and wholly by the workers who run the business. Usually this takes a form of direct democracy in the workplace, one worker, one vote. Everyone has equal say in how things will be run as everyone else.) Rather than being the rare exception to the typical employer-employee business model, businesses should be of and for the workers that do the actual labor of operating the businesses. Everyone shares the profits more equally, based much more closely on what they individually add to the company. (While I have been aware of…

The title says it all. My company hired a new guy with no experience to do the same job I do and he gets paid $2 more an hour than I do. I work part time so they hired this guy to fill the days I don't work at the location I'm working from. This works out perfect for them as the store is now open 7 days a week and they have no overlap between the two of us. The problem is that he gets paid more than I do for less work. I work the storefront and go out on the occasional lock out (we are locksmiths) just as he does. Though when there's no customers in the store and no lockouts to go on he does nothing. When I'm in the same position I am compiling former employees work data. Having me do this work as apposed…

We need Federal labor legislation that makes it a crime to take credit for the work of others. When people do this they steel credit to advance their careers and income while causing the person they stole credit from to lose that advancement and income. That is theft. It needs to be stopped.

After 15 years of working in a family business, I finally built up the nerve to quit tonight. After an extremely busy night of being left to shoulder 3 positions as a “manager” while getting paid a disproportionate wage, I finally relinquished my store keys, asked to be removed from the schedule, and left. I'm looking to immediately begin my job hunt, but there's just one problem: I don't even know where to begin, I have no personal experience with the job market after having been brought to work as a teenager and never walking away to find a career. Due to having been there so long, it's the only place I'd be able to list on my resume/applications as experience. That directly goes against me attempting to branch out of cooking/food establishments. Is there any way to fashion a resume that highlights the non-cooking aspects my work experience? (Things…

Companies need to stop. If you are just going through the motions then dont do it. It makes you look terrible. We have a mostly remote work force right now and our leaders are offering coffee (which is free all the time like all offices) and pastries. Why bother really…. How about good raises? Respect? Listening to employees? That would make me feel appreciated way more.

I’m asking. I’m really confused and I’d bet 5$ intel gonna be now hiring 18/hr as soon as that bullshit is built.