Antiwork

We all know the current is unfair, unsustainable and unjust. The wealth gap has grown to an absurd proportion where we are transitioning into some sort of fiefdom system where the very few elite get to do as they please while the majority have to figure out how to even pay for gas to get to the job that hopefully bestows upon us enough to pay for housing. How many more posts do you need to see here? How much more do you need to see in your own life? There is opportunity here with gas prices rising above absurdity, real estate getting to unreachable levels, education with a lifetime chain of debt and folks still having the recollection of how society valued them during a global pandemic. During that time, the rich got richer… the so-called “essential” workers were abused… and the world kept on promoting this broken system.…

I called off 5 hours in advance on Friday because I’m going through a move, I literally have text messages from my department head saying that’s okay I hope everything goes well with the move. I worked Monday night into Tuesday morning as well as, yesterday night into this morning. They called me five minutes ago and said we are going to terminate you because of it that and because I had called off three weeks ago when I was sick which we had a meeting that they gave me a warning for that I refused to sign but still went in my file. She says turn in your shirts and your badge which I only received one uniform shirt from them and no badge even though I’ve been there going on three months. It took them 5 weeks for me to receive my first paycheck, which I had to…

While most people who give this advice may be well meaning, it is meaningless for many people and can even be bad advice at times. Note: this is USA specific. In the US, the only “labor boards” that exist are the National Labor Relations Board and much more rarely, a state Labor Board that handles non-NLRB jurisdictions (like farm labor or public sector work). These boards protect an employees right to engage in concerted activity to better working conditions. For example, the board will act if at least 2 employees complained about working conditions, went on strike, tried to join a union, and the employer retaliated. If you were paid late, less than overtime, or less than minimum wage, contact either the Department of Labor or a state/local wage and hour agency. You should also consult an attorney, who will likely take a case on contingency if it's any good.…

Can't you just feel the excitement? Wow!

I want to know when we finally snap and tell big business “no more”. When do we look at gas prices and food prices and medical prices and then look at how little we make and say it’s too much? I am all for venting and a lot of the memes here are funny but I just don’t see where we go? When we go? How we go? Because I don’t want you to stay this way forever, and I doubt many of you do either.

Labour movements frequently fall victim to attacking people just a little higher on the ladder than they are instead of focusing on the ultra wealthy that are actually the problem. Effectively behaving like crabs in a bucket, anyone who manages to somewhat improve their personal situation becomes an enemy. It's the same way of thinking that causes people to attack minimum wage because EMTs only make $14/h instead of seeing the big picture where we have individuals making millions per hour we reframe the problem around our current wages. Falsely painting current wages as a reasonable baseline, instead of the product of decades of suppression and stagnation. I'm raising this because there is a post on this sub from earlier today trying to frame someone pointing out that $100k/year is not the height of opulence as being massively out of touch. The post is currently one of the top posts…

I have a job I enjoy that pays me a living wage, but in my free time I go on job boards and pretend to be an applicant and roast companies in the reviews who have vague postings or appear to have unfair practices. I literally do this everyday, it’s my new hobby.

Essentially the question. I gave three weeks of notice to a job, and they're now threatening me with legal action because I didn't give them more notice. I signed an Employee Agreement that stated twice that my employment was at-will and that employer requested more notice. I'm in NYS.