Antiwork

This is why the corporations hate unions, collective bargaining, the ability to set the wage you and your fellow workers deserve. No your company didn't post record profits you exploited your workers and their paychecks. Increasing food subsidies were all that was keeping food affordable for workers who every year were losing money to their jobs. Trump reduced food subsidies and increased oil subsidies then Biden doxed those but didn't reup food subsidies so now the small farmer is dead and corporate farms are dominating. So food is now becoming more and more of a luxury because corporate farms want and can turn higher profits by charging more because of less competition. Don't get me started on predatory corporate landlords and how Trump made it easier for those leeches like him. Now how does that relate to wage negotiation well you need to be able to afford a life food…

It was 40k. They needed us to work on things for shipment, and they missed their shipment because we had called out. That means we each produce about 20k a day for our company, on average probably somewhere like 10-20k. Starting rate here is $18/hr, which isn't bad really, but compared to the amount of revenue we generate for the company, it's pathetic. I get about 600ish a week, when in a day I produce way more than that. I just can't believe they had the audacity to try to make us feel bad with “oh, you lost the company x amount” when they are paying us nothing in comparison to the money the generate off of our labor. It's truly disgusting.

When I found this sub, I was working under somewhat hellish circumstances. My background is in sewing/fashion/textiles, I’d been mostly unemployed through the pandemic and finally found a position late last year. I was stoked. Originally hired for 15-25 hours a week. $25/hr (the absolute lowest base rate in my country), as a “contractor” (no benefits, no overtime, no holiday, no retirement contributions) with the understanding that after a few months, I’d get a “proper” work agreement and remuneration. (Have since discovered that the e tire setup is profoundly illegal here, I can prove it, just not sure if I want to report the boss) I regularly found myself working 40+ hour weeks. I have a home and family obligations, and I enjoy a life outside work. All of this was pretty much treated as faintly ridiculous by my (single, child free, no social life) boss. She kept piling on…

Prisma Health, a HUGE regional hospital system in South Carolina, posted a job opening for a professional role in Environmental, Health, and Safety. I have 10 years experience in said field and the job description is a mile long. The EHS Director (hiring manager) was very complimentary of my experience in building EHS programs and said that would be very valuable. Two interviews over three weeks later, I’m offered a job with a different company. So I reached out to the Prisma hiring manager to ask if I’m a competitive candidate, and also asked her to confirm the salary range (in the second interview she said around $85k but nothing was written down). She said they were making decisions after an upcoming round of third interviews the following week and she would confirm the salary range with HR. We hang up, then she texts me to ask what my requirements…

Overheard one of the managers at my work say that to one of the admin personnel in their office area. I wanted so bad to be like “every time I walk by your office you're talking about golf with the other managers” lol We even have a joke, because our schedule is four 9s and a 5, meaning four 9 hour days M-Th, and a 5 hour day Friday morning. We joke that “it's actually four 7s and a 2” because so much of the office culture is into golf and people just sit around talking with each other for hours on end every day. We even have an inter-company golf league.

I got laid off after almost 16 years by my previous employer. They handled it like crap but I get a severance at least. I haven’t had to job hunt in a long time, at least, outside that company. I have been working remote so I decided to only apply for remote jobs and if I got desperate I would apply for hybrid or on site jobs. One of the first jobs I applied for is advertised as remote. I got through the 1st interview and it was great I liked the manager and really wanted the job. Then I talked to the recruiter (the hiring manager called me first because she thought the recruiter was taking too long) and she was very nice. But then she asked if I would be willing to do hybrid since the HQ was in my state. But it’s like a 30 min drive…