Antiwork

I work for a pretty giant company. I have been in a few different facilities/buildings up to now. My current building has only been functioning as is for 1 and a half years. It’s pandemic related but there were other projects the team was working toward for the future. We have somewhere between 150-250 employees in our building, and there’s another building on the other side of the US and one in the UK. We’ve felt unstable for the last 6ish months. Work has dried up somewhat but we were told repeatedly about these ‘other projects’ happening that should be approved soon. (I’m purposely being vague btw). Don’t worry they said – many times over the last 6-8 months. Wednesday we went to a routine meeting just to be met with a 3 minute pre-recorded video of one of the overall project leaders telling us that they’re closing our buildings…

How is this okay! I was 21 when minimum wage was 4.25 and servers were getting paid this. My now 21 year old niece who gets paid this now is crying on the phone to me cuz she got a 10% tip on a 12 top. She works 40+ hours a week. Please advise Kim Kardashian!

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I work full time at a grocery store. I used to really enjoy working there but the past 4mo we have been short staffed and it’s been brutal. This sun/mon/tues some very high up people in the company are coming to look at the store so of course everyone has been scrambling to get everything ready. My boss asked me if I could work an extra shift this weekend to help out. I accepted because I want the extra money and it would be nice to have some extra time to finish some stuff that has been neglected. Halfway through my shift I learn that the reason the store manager isn’t there this entire weekend is because he’s visiting friends out of town for the weekend for “fun” (he also has a 3 week old baby just saying) My department manager took Thursday and Friday off and left after 3hrs…

If you are an employer, you have it all wrong. It is NOT that people do not want to work. People HAVE to work, so that is just dumb. This “great resignation” is because the wrong people are in management and supervisory positions. And then they make their employees lives miserable. Believe it or not, it takes a certain type of personality to be a good manager, or supervisor. Most employers make the mistake of promoting someone who has exceled in their position for a while, then put them in charge of people. It doesn't work that way. These people do not know how to identify talent, and that is a completely different skill set. I myself have done both. I will be the first to admit that I sucked as an employee. Seriously, I sucked. But I exceled at managing people, being able to identity their talents and develop…

The city I live in has a huge IT sector crowd and due to Pandemic almost all of them went to their hometown. Now most those companies stop renting those huge places with ridiculous rents, I work with one such firm. A firm of barly 50 people in it. We haven't rented any place since Pandemic and we dont plan to. But in past few months our Finance team (including our CFO) are getting almost threatening calls from local real estate vendors to come start the offices. Not just that some even put their list of demands like 1. We have to call our employees to office or at least to this city so that their investment & rent houses are filled up. 2. They are not ready to decrease the rent, they want pre-pandemic rents plus 15% hike as it has been 2 years. 3. They want us to…

I live on the West Coast of the US, for reference.