Antiwork

I’ve been working at and helping a small company for the past two years. The stipulation of me working there was that I would do everything in my power to create a work environment where I personally would want to work. Over that two years, I’ve replaced a few very toxic people in management, raised the average pay for employees, implemented PTO and parental leave, created a quarterly bonus program based on company profit, and stepped into the role of managing day-to-day operations of the company. My work is far from finished. I know there’s so much more that can be done. I am in a role I’d never imagined for myself, but now that I am in this role and have significant sway in the company decisions, I want to make sure I stay true to my original goal of fighting for the people who work there. The company…

I recently quit my job after working for my employer for 2.5 years. I have 14 years of industry experience, a trade degree in my field and was selling $1.2 million in product with $700k in gross profit and making $21/hr. I found out my counterparts were making 20% more than myself even though I had the highest gross profit percentage in our location, answered more calls than anyone else, received the locations manager award plus handled many other responsibilities that counterparts weren't required to do. When I brought it to my managers attention that I knew I was being compensated unfairly based on my metrics they immediately got confrontational and were upset that we had discussed salaries which is our right to do. In the end after a heated discussion I told my manager I was going to go to HR over this and he said “that's fine but…

I work in supply chain in a corporation during covid times, enough said. We were all told we had to attend a “resilience training” short course today. Tips were: Excercise Structure your day Learn what you can/can't control Find something relaxing Omg! All my problems are fixed! Thank you so much most esteemed employer, I am so grateful to your willingness to really offer some practical and suitable solutions to the cluster fuck that is the current supply chain. Don't worry about dropping unnecessary tasks or contacting me after I said on the call that I haven't had a lunchbreak for 3 weeks! Ill just go for a 15 min walk and structure my day better

Kinda just looking for opinions on what I should do here. I drive my truck around for my work, I am a supervisor over the installation of pools I haul heavy equipment and dump trailers and regularly wiegh in on scales at like 24000 lbs, I'm paid around 46000 a year with a 500 dollar truck bonus per month and gas is paid for but average pay for my position its way less than I should be making and normally a company would provide a truck for a position like mine. But I was enjoying what i was doing until recently because my truck started to break down($7000 in parts suspension wheels tires brakes, wheels cracked from tires blowing out on the freeway, and it damaged my suspension and my rear brakes are gone) Am I wrong to think they should at least help with some of this cost?

I work an eight-hour shift, Mondays to Fridays. We're not paid extra for working beyond our hours. Because of this (plus, my salary is actually quite modest), I refuse to render overtime work. Thing is, I'm being assigned multiple projects. I don't have any problem with working on six to seven projects all at the same time because I used to be able to handle this level of responsibility in my previous employment — but that paid me thrice more than what I make now. (That group shut down. This pandemic sucks.) Right now, I don't have a team under me so I do everything on my own. I know I am able to accomplish what is asked of me if I dedicate more hours to work. I honestly love what I do, and I also want to produce good outputs, but I don't want to be a slave to…

This happened a while ago and I couldn't talk about this before because the person I found this out from still worked there and I didn't want to get them in trouble. They don't work there anymore so here it goes. After 2 years of putting everything we had I to this company until there was nothing left to give, a bunch of senior lead women and non-binary people were suddenly laid off. They said it was “due to covid” but we all noticed the specific people chosen had some things in common. We had all asked, at some point or another, for better working conditions. We asked, politely, for better schedules. We were exhausted. My mental and physical health declined rapidly. I almost died driving home from work from exhaustion. We would work every night and weekend for .months at a time to make their shitty deadlines. When we…

We know that anyone here making less than $15 per hour (and, really, $25 or more in a lot of places) is underpaid. However, for those of us that make more than that, how underpaid are you based on your skills, experience, etc? I've made the mistake of not moving on from my company and, based on my title and experience, I am about 12k below the average for my area and about $40k below the top end. I'm also paid exactly the same as someone with a lower title who has been with the company less time and is not as high performing as me. I don't begrudge her that, I am angry with my company for not valuing me appropriately. So, how about you?