Antiwork

I recently applied to a few jobs on Indeed (UK). On the site, employees and recruitment agencies can ask applications optional questions – this one had four. One of the questions asked me to provide my current salary, and salary expectations. I did not provide my current salary but did include my minimum salary expectations. Five days later I received a message from the company thanking me for my application. “In order to progress with your applciation, please can you let us know your current salary and salary expectations per year?” My response: “My current salary expectations are £X (the same number I had previously provided them) and above. With respect, I will not be sharing my current salary”. Having read stories online, from this sub-reddit and from my experience in finding jobs in the past, I know that revealing my current salary weakens my ability to negotiate my wage,…

As a kid from a working class family, I asked how to get ahead in this world. You have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, be educated they said. So instead of being a cheerleader I read every book I could. When I graduated high school I asked how to get ahead. Go to college they said. So I joined the Army because they said they’d pay when my parents would not. When I left the Army I asked how to get ahead. Get a 4 year degree, that is so much better than a trade school they said. So I graduated cum laude with a B.A. When my first job after college paid me $10 an hour for a job in my field at a newspaper I asked how to get ahead. Get a better job, they said. So I landed a federally funded job with good benefits.…

so i moved to amsterdam from the bay area half a year ago. i work as a delivery guy for a big parcel delivery service on an electric assist bike, they gave us a ton of nice rain gear, free fruit and coffee in the warehouse, bonuses and benefits, etc, i'm already like, “this is really nice for a entry blue collar job”. i've worked in construction, as a bike mechanic and messenger, public schools, political campaigns, non-profits, this wins. yesterday i sprain my ankle at work, i'm immediately like “i'm effed”. not even. i get a ride home, paid days off, and try to make a doctors appointment to get documentation and the assistant on the phone is like “we don't do that in the netherlands, if your employer wants documentation they need to send you to their own doctor”. it's not perfect here, but it's nice to not…

The culture of the US could be described many way because we are so multicultural. One of the aspects of American culture that has lured so many people from all of the world to the US is the idea that if you work hard you can make something of your self. Which is a beautiful concept. The idea that if you study and get good grades and add value to society you will be rewarded. Their had always been greed and unfair situations, but it seems that at some point the C-suites, politicians, and the Powers that be, taught the middle class that the lower class of society where the source of most of our societal issues. This position or view shifted the collective attitude of the middle class to view the lower ends of the low end of societal-economic scale with disgust. And this shifted over the work environment.…

It’s now February 24th, w2’s in my country (USA) we’re required to be sent out by January 31st for tax season. Gave it two weeks for time in the mail to be generous for its delivery time but it’s still not here. What can I do? I feel like my employer didn’t do the one thing he need’s to do on time and quite frankly actions have consequences. What can I do?

So I just lost my job because asda decided they were going to get rid of external cleaners to make them internal cleaners to save money and got rid of a lode of hours and jobs and atleast at my store there clean as you go is a fucking lie not to mention the place is practically held together with a string in the winter we litraly had stock outside then the smoking area was blocked with boxs for a week straight not to mention when we had literal multiple tones of rubbish because they don't like to pay for there crushers to be fixed and I frankly feel like I have been lied to threwout the change it literally happened out-of nowhere it started with asda will do anything they can to keep our jobs and we would be judged on multiple qualifications that was a fucking lie we…

I know many of us are on this thread because we're not happy with the status quo & the way we are workers are exploited for corporate profit. If a foreign country offered Universal Basic Income, all you had to do is learn the language, would you make the difficult choice to leave the US?

Long story short: I worked harder than I had ever imagined I would only to see havoc in my department. We have a gigantic shortage (40%) for one. And then our boss said he won’t increase our salary or hire new employees. Next month when I receive my license, I will be joking the ‘Safety Department’. Safety isn’t my favorite job but I’ll at least get paid for my hours and not be obligated to do a job of 3 sometimes even 4 people.