Antiwork

I’ve been going back and forth about posting this and finally decided why not. Last year I was working at Starbucks as a shift supervisor. The pay as a shift supervisor at the store I worked at was $13.34, later on it was raised to $17.78 and the pay for a barista position was raised to $14(I don’t remember what it was before). I had been thinking about stepping down from the position since it didn’t really seem like a good fit for me and 13.34 was not worth the stress. When the barista pay was increased I started thinking that even if I stepped down I would still be making more than I was before. I decided to stick it out since I thought making 17.78 was great. Then something happened with our manager who I really liked and they decided to take their coffee break (after you’ve worked…

I just wanted to say that we must stand together if we plan on pushing forward for workers rights, better pay and humane working conditions. I have been seeing a lot of posts lately that are doubtful of the authenticity of certain posts where workers are being mistreated. I have experienced many abuses in my 30 years being employed and these posts of worker abuse are important if we mean to continue our fight for workers rights. We must not shame or deride these brave people who have come forward to share their stories. Most of us try to help in any way that we can with legal advice and contact information, this is a positive example of what we can do as a community to help. We must foster and encourage this positive response in our community instead of victim blaming. To all of you who have been afraid…

I caught covid whilst supporting a service user who tested positive last week. I spent every working moment with her (because I was told to), I took her to a&e and stayed with her all night, had no sleep and I have spent around 50 hours with her over the course of the week. Masked up, and all PPE intact, of course. And now I have tested positive and have been told I have to take time off and isolate until I'm testing negative again. The company I work for don't pay sick pay, so I will get UK statuatory. I'll be losing £350 in wages, and with the rise in the cost of living, I probably won't be able to pay my bills this month! I get paid the minimum 'living' wage so I don't get paid enough for the job I do as it is! I'm not even…

I'm currently employed and would like to change my job for ethical (and monetary, lets be honest) reasons. I applied for a job in a multinational company that is a bit less world destructing than my current position. First instead of simply sending a resume that reflects my personality, I took almost an hour to refill all my skills and work experiences and education on the company job website. Basically I'm doing their job, filling their HR database, great… Then I received an answer with a link to that hirevue platform, where I have to record me answering questions, in English (I'm not a native speaker). Seriously !? Can't you just call me ? Will it really take more of your precious time to have a direct human interaction ? Do I really want to work in a company that uses such a process ? I don't think so, I…

I’m a technical supervisor in a medical laboratory, overseeing technical and operational quality for general laboratories – chemistry, hematology, coagulation (there are other departments within the laboratory with their own supervisors; I’m just “lucky” to be overseeing 3 of them). Clinical laboratory scientists, along with other laboratory professionals, are the ones doing the testing, giving the care provider lab results to diagnose and treat patients. We’re especially overextended with the current pandemic, doing expedited testing for COVID 24/7 on top of an already overworked and underpaid culture. My boss retired, and before he did, he created a position of lead laboratory scientist to help me because there is no way I can do it all without delegation. It’s really a 2-3 person job all wrapped up in the supervisor position. When he retired, I took over his responsibility until we could find replacement; colleagues have approached me a few times…

A rant on being called a hero. I work for a staffing company called Maxim and am currently under contract with Sacramento Public Health Lab.  Our permanent coworkers were just told they would be getting a two installment payment of $1500 or 40 hours of administrative leave (80 hours total) under the American Rescue Plan Act. These employees getting this payment are sometimes not even working with Covid. Maxim also offers no vacation, not much sick time and when I had Covid in October I was not offered Covid pay because it had ran out at the end of September. I was basically told I should have been sick a month earlier instead. I lost ten days of pay and came back to work with $13 in my bank account. During the height of the Omicron and Delta variants we were exposed to and worked with Covid every single day,…

Getting ready for work Take your emotions and your pain Drive through the snow and the rain Forget what makes you human and you'll become The robotic employee the very best one Nothing is real make sure that you're fake Roof over head and bread is at stake Behind your mask dreaming of freedom Same thing every day fuck this repetition Yearning for the moments when I can feel Leaving work tonight is when I'll start to heal

I accepted a management job after being with my company for years. After reviewing the pay and hiring practices I am beyond upset. After seeing what some get paid but are not big contributors compared to my key staff are being paid I’m pissed. I went all the way up this morning and raised a stink and think I can make some changes but part of me doesn’t want anything to do with an organization like this. I feel like leaving but then I can’t fight for what’s right and it will continue. I’m feeling super lost right now.

Short backstory, I worked for this small family run digital marketing company for 1.5 years and during my time grew the company’s client base and revenue. At the end of my employment I was solely responsible for 80% of the company’s revenue (£800k) and paid a salary of £19,000 (no extras). Whilst at the company, our team shrank from 4 others in my job role and as a result of this, I was given the work loads of my peers. For 6 months straight I worked 70+ hour weeks to manage the workload whilst my employer did not attempt to hire. They kept dangling “we’ve got something special in store for you” in front of me to keep me hooked. At my annual review I was told moneys tight and “I’m not quite ready for the next step”. Unknowingly to me at the time they had just bought a brand…