Antiwork

First I work in HVAC Company #1 Advertising as a large company with 100+ employees. Good work life balance, competitive pay and benefits… Was a shop for commercial refraction that covered over half the state, was 7 guys total. Most when I talked to them before the interview said they pull 16 hours a day. Then manager discredited all my higher education and tried offering $15 an hour starting. My Response: walked out on him mid sentence after he gave the offer and said my education didn’t matter. Company #2 Again advertised as a larger commercial company. Get there and it’s the main “boss” his wife is the office manager, daughter is the dispatcher. He has only 2 techs and said “I had to let one guy go for violating company policy and another guy left because we had a conflict where he felt we over promised him. Guy had…

So I need blinds… I go and almost immediately am like “boom. Those.” text my gf and she also says (unpromted) “boom. Those.” So I'm not handy or anything so I go to the desk and it's almost like. I've intruppted something… So I apologize… To the man on my left who is looking like he wants to help and stumble around asking how pricing works on custom blinds, I think it came out something like “so if I were to add… Uh… What is the most for blinds” yep my brain doesn't work most times. There are 3 people Left ro right New guy (older, skinny, maybe 55-60?) Manager, we'll call her Gilda (mid 40s, sternish, short responses, to the point, wants to gtfo of holding new guys hand) Other dude, we'll call him Dennis (early 50s (bigger, louder, on the phone amongst the entire time) So Gilda looks…

I‘ve been working at my retail store for five months now and have had two reviews in total, with literally all good things in them. I make $18/hr and they told me I needed to wait until my six month review because that’s generally when they do raises. I didn’t even call it a raise, I just told them that in Los Angeles, $18/hr is not a living wage. They didn’t even disagree with me, they just told me that the pay is good for a retail job. I’m nearly 30 years old and I’m expected to work my ass off for this company, open to close, with constant improvement— all while they cannot even provide myself or any of my coworkers with enough money to cover the average rent of $2500/mo to live in the city they built a store in. I feel so discouraged and defeated and disrespected.…