Antiwork

Not sure if this is the correct place for this. I am a single dad of 2. I had been working for this company for 3 years. they recently laid me off on 1/23/22 due to downsizing and budget cuts. they still have not paid me, they owe me 12k. I keep getting the run around being told a date then it is pushed back when the date comes. I live and work in CA. After bills and a recent car repair I'm pretty strapped. Do lawyers for this kind of thing charge up front? They're not a large company but surely should have enough to pay me by now if not I think they may have bigger problems.

I think I may be SOL but I wanted to check. I’m a contracted office manager who’s client location is being shut down. There are no other offices for this client within 200 miles and I have absolutely no interest in working at the other offices my employer contracts with locally. When this office is officially closed can I turn down a transfer to the same position at another location and still be eligible to collect unemployment? I’m in Texas. I’ve wanted to quit this job for a minute so if I can ride out the clock with a dwindling workload then collect unemployment while I look for something more suitable that’d be ideal.

In Colorado. Apparently I didn’t have any, although the program we use that has all of my employment information said I did, they didn’t tell me and I had just found out some time later. Not sure what to think of this but I think it’s pretty shitty?

I work your typical bs 9 to 5 job. I have been stuck in the same position for years. At my last company, I had a great manager but he decided to leave, my company spent EIGHT MONTHS looking for a new boss, and he could NOT have been worse. Basically told me I was starting over from scratch as far as my career goes after working there 2 yrs. I lasted another six months before I said fuck it and left b/c he was so awful. Now, I've been at this current job for two years and just found out I'm getting a new manager again! I hear all the things like “Oh they'll make this dept so much better!” and all that horse shit. Im frantically looking for other jobs now. On to the next wage cage bullshit.

I constantly receive requests for quick, immediate deadlines for pointless information from management and supervisors. These same supervisors/managers, rarely ACKNOWLEDGE a request within two weeks, let alone provide feedback or information. For example, I asked for a wage review in august, mind you I’ve won a department award and a national award in the last two years and they are still REQUESTING INFORMATION. I work for a public agency with a regimented pay scale. If you don’t ask for it when you’re hired, there are few opportunities for pay bumps without a promotion. So some deadbeat guy is making way more money than me putting in way less effort and providing fewer results. How do I deactivate caring and trying!

I just saw the post about Starbucks being able to give a huge bonus, the implication being that they are being greedy. It’s important to know that this is how the system is SUPPOSED to work! It’s not greed, it’s fulfilling an obligation. A corporation‘s obligation is to it’s shareholders, and it will do everything to maximize shareholder return. Everything. The only “good” things corporations do are to increase profile, retain people, get free publicity – I.e. things that will increase their market share and therefore increase share price. That is it. That’s how it’s supposed to work. Thats why the only way to make a corporation do the right thing is through legislation. Cap executive compensation. Mandate profit sharing with employees. Raise minimum wage. Improve protections across the board, Or tear it all down and replace with something better. Some form of democratic socialism seems most promising.

The job is alright just not in my element and the ppl I work wit drive me nuts, I been looking at some better suited places. I know “burning bridges” can be bad but it’s just so much less stressful