Antiwork

I worked as a salaried employee for many years with a company. I put in my resignation after having my child(work from home not an option). They reached out asking me to come back as a 1099 contractor recently to help out until a position could be filled, and I accepted. I will have to send my own invoices. Any tips on what constitutes a billing hour would be greatly appreciated!

I see some people posting on this sub about a 32 hour work week bill, and while I know that fewer hours locked in a cube might mean a lot to some people, it's really hard for me to not feel angry about it. Myself and millions of others are stuck in the oppression of hourly wages. Reducing the definition of a full week of work will only cause our shitty bosses to reduce our hours to keep us 4 hours short of the employer needing to offer us benefits, and because we're paid hourly, this will only reduce our income. Any benefit that salaried employees will get, in terms of the same pay for fewer hours, will only hurt hourlies by giving the employer reason to reduce our hours further and the ensuing reduced hours will be seen by the capitalist propagandists as an excuse to condescendingly tell us…

Just a little vent after that interview. I applied for overnight stocker, they have a flier by the door saying overnights were needed and are paid $15.50 an hour. I applied, and put my availability that from 6 PM to 9 PM on weekdays, I'm unavailable due to group therapy. They call me for an interview to tell me they only have midshift stocker available (with the same flier still by the door), that it pays $14 an hour, and that it's from 2 PM to 11 PM. The dude didn't even bother to read my availability. Otherwise, the only other position is cashier, which hours aren't set and starts at $12 an hour. What the fuck? I didn't apply for that and that's a shit wage in this county. I need a job and am likely to accept the cashiering position and hopefully transfer departments once out of group,…

I quit a toxic job for a better one with better pay. Upon getting my final paycheck today, they had deducted $600 for “PTO owed.” In my state that’s illegal to do unless you have prior permission from the employee. I emailed them a screenshot of the law and they issued me a check on the spot. My point is, employers will do anything thinking you don’t know your rights and will just let them do it. A lot of the times they can get away with it, (in the US anyway due to laws being biased toward the employer) but make sure you have researched or asked someone or anything before you let them get away with it. Don’t go down without a fight. Anyway. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk. Good luck out there.

It's crazy to me that we're all okay post covid with how the companies forced their employees to work during a pandemic that we didn't know the health effects of, just that a lot of people were dying, and this was before the vaccine was out! If it would make them money, they will kill us with terrible disease. I don't see how this is any different than intentionally killing people, you don't just get to go in your car, put a brick on the gas and fall asleep on a highway, you still have responsibility for the potential outcomes of your actions.

This is going to be a long post with a lot of background details, fair warning. I have been dealing with a pay discrepancy for a year and a half. When I started there were two clerks that were, according to my boss, “the exact same position”. I am paid as a salary non exempt employee, the other is paid as an hourly employee. Hourly employee receives bonuses and cost of living adjustments that salary employees are not eligible for. I brought it up multiple times with my manager that this was pay inequality, to which he responded that this is what I agreed to do. Now, despite the discrepancy I’m still paid alright and where I live is rural so it’s hard to find anything that will pay me better. In fact, I couldn’t find anywhere to pay me better. Because of this, I stayed. Cut to a couple…

I have about 30 minutes left of my shift and realized I have to go number two. I was going to hold it until I got home, but then thought, why don’t I just get paid to poop?

I know there’s nothing illegal about this, but this is a lot of time to waste on an interview process for everyone involved. They had me do a 4 hour initial marathon interview with the people in my prospective department and asked me to interview the same people 2 months later. The position I applied for paid substantially more than the position I was told I would be a candidate for at the end of the 2nd interview. I inquired about my status in the subsequent months and there was no response. The screen of the head of the department was briefly shared by accident during my last interview with an email that read “this person would be a good fit for X position”. What gives? Why is it okay to take so much of anybody’s time without compensating them? I have to donate my capacity to do labor in…