Antiwork

He high-five and hugged me. Said he knew it was coming and was proud of me for following my dreams. Wish my manager cared as much as my regional. Thanks for always being amazing, Greg.

I’ve got a job and my plan was to stay here until September to save money. Looks like I’ll be leaving earlier. Today was my first day and my new boss starts talking about how we are a small family and how we are all equal, etc. In my experience this is usually a sign that the workplace is extremely toxic. Right after talking about this he explains to me that our workplace has a plan to fight against absenteeism. So we get paid the minimum wage and depending on how much we work we can get up to 100€ more of commissions per month. But apparently that’s a lot, most people hardly get more than 50€. He explained to me that if we take a sick day, you won’t get any commissions that month. If you take two sick days or go on leave all the coworkers will only…

> be me > high school grad, now industrial worker > wake up every morning at 5am for 8hours of boring manual work in a factory > get some average salary, but with current inflation rate it's not going to be enough > can't imagine doing this for the rest of my life > friend is luring me into IT field > says companies can't find any new developers to hire > idea.jpg > spend few months on tutorials learning coding/programming in my free time > doing little steps at a time actually learned something and began to tinker a little bit > try to create a very small garbage project to raise my confidence > go to 1st interview for junior web app developer > nervous as fuck > they liked my little piece of garbage > got a contract after 1st interview in IT > im now waking…

A lot of this pertains to minimum wage jobs. I consider it wage theft if the company is understaffed and causes employees to work multiple jobs in order to fill multiple positions for lack of workers. If this happens at a job, whether employees are out sick or quit altogether, the other employees filling in and doing both their work and the other worker's should get compensated pay because they are now working two jobs at once more than their original job title and job training requirements. They should compensate work that is doubled on the worker. If you run a company and you only pay an employee minimum wage level and expect that employee to fill in the gap for one or more potential employees, your company should be ashamed and lawsuits should be filed against it. For example, an employee was out of work today. I'm a janitor…