Antiwork

I am new to the management side, but it was announced at the beginning of the year that the executives created a new bonus program. We get a large bonus every 4 months and the ones that hit all our goals for the year are going to go on a team all paid “tropical vacation”. What irritated me was that they gave us managers the option to share the money with our team or not. I guess that has always been the policy. In all the time I've worked for this company, I have never heard of a manager sharing their bonus. Is this NORMAL? Why is it an option and why don't they just give our workers bonuses too? When I mentioned that I plan to share mine, I got dirty looks and comments about “opening a can of worms.” I responded that if my team is happy, it…

One of my breaking points was a wedding that cost 1 million over the course of 3 days while I was making 12.50/hr with no benefits in 2019 With that particular job it was a contractor that set up shop in a museum and I did sell them my soul for a solid 6 months but apparently I needed to sell them my soul for 12 months to get insurance and paid time off. The cafe shifts were only 6 hours and it was all or nothing with events so getting benefits required 6 days a week in the cafe and events all year round I loved that career but I maxed at 12.50/hr with questionable benefits without selling my soul to management for about 33-38K salaried When I end up talking to people who can regularly afford to eat at places like that they had no idea how little…

Also the clock at work was purposely set 5 minutes ahead of time which i now realize was to make us come in 5 min earlier because if we didn't we'd get reprimanded. That's 22 hours per year that they got from every employee just for showing up 5 minutes earlier because of the clock. We had 9 employees so that's ~200 hours of unpaid labor per year.

$25/hour minimum wage. 4 days/32 hours being full time Benefits for every single person Etc I get that this is what people want and what SHOULD happen, but there’s a point in realizing that some things are just not going to happen, at least not in the U.S anyway

Hey all, debated posting this here but I just need to get this off of my chest/allow myself to process just how badly I got taken advantage of in 2021. I also want to share it as a friendly reminder that it is not below even the “cool” office job employers to get away with a bargain at the expense of the worker Some context: I previously worked at a “hip” ad agency just outside a major city in the Pacific Northwest. I have a BS in marketing from a private four-year college (read: expensive) and previous industry experience. I was hired to do organic social media at said “cool” agency, where we had a dog-friendly environment and enough office snacks/lunches to make us FEEL spoiled. The work was repetitive but it had enough perks to make it seem worth it on the surface. I was hired at just under…