Antiwork

This happened towards the end of 2019, I was working for an automotive shop part time while I was in school and had just finished up at tech school with a degree in Automotive, I tell my boss that I’m finished in school and I’m ready to go full time. The companies response? .50 cent raise for all my hard work so I was now at a nice $10.50 an hour with my degree. I started plotting my departure from there but as fate would have it COVID put me on furlough and eventual lay off the following April. There’s a reason why many dealers and shops have high turnover rates and with the supply shortage I know it’s higher

So I was sexually assaulted at my first job as an underage girl from an 18+ male coworker who would stalk me, I was fired for wanting something done about it including the coworker fired, but they kept the male coworker and I stayed quiet for years from not being able to accept it, but today I used my local guide account with over two million views to leave a review and call them out about it, now note, local guide accounts are usually the top/first review you read. I also put the cherry on top of the sundae by mentioning how their overpriced wings are Tyson frozen. It felt too good and I don't have any regrets.

I frame homes and recently had to find another company to work for, found this one and was told I could only have my previous pay if I was able to read plans to the point of running the job myself.. I had made it a point that I'm not a foreman or a lead but I will kick ass as a right hand for someone. He wants me at the point of knowledge and skill where other companies in the past would have given me much more, a whole crew, company truck and tool trailer but isnt willing to take the time to teach me or pay what they would. I just couldn't do it. I can't put up with a shitty attitude and a paywage that literally has me living check to check while being told I need to be able to build a whole damn house by…

When I decided to quit alcohol, weed and caffeine, I thought it would straighten me out. At work I would be lazy, clock in late, and hate my time being spent there. Surely it was the substances fault! Surely, if I could reset my brain to enjoy the little things, and stop being such a lazy stoner then I would grow up and get a big boy job. As if somehow by not smoking marijuana I would be transformed into a go getter who loved the 9-5 with a shit eating grin. ​ And? I became even lazier. I used to use caffeine to motivate myself to get to work, because my brain is screaming at me not to. Because, work is miserable. I use alcohol and weed to relax after work, because my brain desperately wants to forget I really just spent 8 hours of my finite life standing…

These are the only two things I can think of that will actually increase worker welfare. Laws need to be fixed so that workers have more rights and compensation is limited to execs and owners. That, or rioting and violence to force our point across and enact change to basically get change to happen. The rich will keep hoarding wealth and kicking the little guys unless they are forced to change.

Social worker here, and in my field it’s expected to get paid like shit. Everyone goes into school knowing it. A few months back I received an offer to work for an IT department at an entry level position for $20/hr. I almost accepted it, but instead took the offer letter to my supervisor and asked her to give me a reason to stay at my current job: “It’s disheartening working in a field where I could jump ship and make more at an entry level position than the one that requires a college degree and professional license.” She took the letter to HR and we were able to negotiate a pay raise not just for me, but the whole department, and a comprehensive company-wide annual raise policy based on inflation. Often times in the mental health world we accept the shit pay because it’s non-profit. Fuck that excuse. If…