Antiwork

Two months ago my wife completed her Orothpedic Technician license and advised the hospital she works for that she got it. She provided all required documents and gave them to her HR department. Due to her hospital being on the small/newer side they had to create a new job classification for her. The job started at 28 an hr, and with her overall hospital experience put her at 35 an hour. For the last month she has been making this amount. Sounds good right? Nope! Her boss pulled her aside and told her that HR screwed up and they were prepping to dock the pay to an unknown amount. She was hating her job before she got the raise, and the raise made it just bearable. However with the reduction she will more than likely hate it agian and quit. The reason for the post! We are looking for advice,…

Brief background, I'm moving to a new city to pursue more school in September. My current apartment lease ends June 1st, at which point I'm going to move back in with family in a different city for the interim to get a chance to see them before leaving again and save some money. My current job is grant funded and thus has funding limitations, and in the employment contract specifies three crucial things: that the term of employment ends after July 1st That I will work “approximately 40 hours per week” That “the total number of hours per week will not exceed 750” due to limitations of the grant funding the employment. When I informed my boss that my lease ends June first, and that I will have to leave at that point, I received no sympathy and was told that 'leaving early' was disrespectful. When I suggested closing out…

I work in a large department store in a big city. My job is customer service, which is on the bottom floor. When people want to do same day pickups, we have a “picking” team that comes in prior to the store opening at around 8 AM, and they leave at 3:30 PM.They have to collect, bag, and label the items that people want, and put them away in bins for me and my coworkers to give to customers later. This means that the picking team must fulfill every order after 3:30 PM from the day before– AND every order up to date until they leave again in the afternoon. Currently we are severely understaffed (because they raised a bunch of people's pay only to cut it significantly after a month or so for the holidays) so I've been taking shifts for people in the Women's department, Junior's department, Men's……

I know quitting some job at burger king isn't some big deal for most people but this is kind of special to me. The first thing to know is that I actually like my coworkers. I'd actually lay down my life for them because they're some of the kindest souls on the planet. but I'd only be saying that if it were still September. Since then over half of the original crew is gone and now we have people who I know mean well, but are not suited for the job frankly. One micromanages everything, one of them hasn't learned the basic sandwiches after over a month and the general manager cant utilize a budget, so we ended up running out of beef patties on a Friday night, and over $1000 in sales was down the drain that night. I mean its not like I took the grunt of that…

So I don't get why people complain about workers wanting a raise in minimum wage. From what I understand they seem to think a minimum wage increase would make everything else around us more expensive like gas, food, etc. Well minimum wage didn't increase that much and gas rose to 4 dollars a gallon. Prices were already increasing while workers were asking for a minimum wage increase. It's not like minimum wage workers are asking for a lot. There are those who want to work 6 figures to be able to afford a house/mansion and there are those who just want enough to be able to afford rent plus other essentials.