Antiwork

Long rant. I have a story from a decade ago. I worked at JCPenneys. I actually have no major complaints for the majority of my time there. It was alright for a retail job for a young adult. No scars. I made a lot of friends. I gave them my two weeks notice because I wanted to pursue a career in childcare (spoiler alert that was a nightmare and I’ve moved on to better things) I already was hired by a day care. I was also in the process of moving to the other side of town. When I gave my notice they scheduled me everyday for 2 weeks. Not one day off. And as a good worker bee I worked those days without complaint. Did I also mention that I didn’t have a car and had to walk a mile home most nights? I worked in the lingerie dept…

It seems to me most companies are advertising that they are hiring, but aren't actually hiring. They're running skeleton crews and working them long hours. They get away with it because the employees need money and the businesses tell the customers no one wants to work so just be patient and expect bad or slow service. Is anyone else noticing things like this?

It's obvious that the cost of goods are rising at break neck speeds while wages are rising similarly to the speed at which mountains rise. My concern is if everyone demands higher wages won't the corporations we work for just increase the prices of the goods we are struggling to afford? Should the lower and middle classes be fighting for a lower cost in goods? For example you work for a grocery store and finally get your employer to increase your wages. The top management is just going to increase the cost of products to balance out your higher wages rendering your increase pointless when you buy groceries. Whenever I see arguments for higher minimum wage this is what I think about. I don't see why companies can't pay minimum wage workers a fair, livable income and not have extremely high prices on products that make them massive profits. No…

I get paid the legal minimum wage therefore my job should expect the legal minimum from me. But today I am opening the shop – I am a key holder who cashes up at the end of the day but not a manager or anything like it, I am literally the lowest paid possible employee of a shop – and my manager has the day off. If I overslept (due to the clock change maybe) and didn’t go in, the shop wouldn’t open and the company wouldn’t make money. But my manager is off today and the shop still runs fine .. how have we accepted this as normal? Anyway she bought me and my colleague a bag of treat size Twix to motivate us to meet the sales targets – I’m older than my colleagues so I ask her to explain the targets which are impossible to meet. She…

In all honesty I’ve never been at my lowest and it’s because of this company and what they put me through. There was a job opening for Area field manager, 5 hours away, got the job, found a nice place close to it And me and my wife made the move. Was told I’d create my own hours and get ample training as Uhaul was new to me. 1.Two months in, literally only learned the basics, basically had to teach myself everything, I’d make a small mistake, marketing company president (mcp) would basically scold me even though he promised day one I’d get full in depth training. 2. I joined in with my area having absolutely terrible driver license and hook up photo stats, literally 2nd month and was getting threatened by mcp with my job that my stats weren’t good, focused in on it and was able to increase…