Antiwork

I'm relatively new to the workforce, having graduated college in May of 2020. I've been told time and time again by managers, HR, and co-workers to learn how to pick my battles. However, it seems that not picking my battles has worked out quite well. Have gotten one extremely toxic senior engineer fired, one racist project manager demoted, 25% wage increase in two years, and HR to back down from their attempts to discriminate against my disability. I always advocate for my fellow coworkers and will speak out for them whenever I can. All of this while doing a kickass job and getting almost nothing but praise from my clients. Seems like I'm picking them quite well.

My girlfriend and I work in a grocery store and she and the other female cashiers constantly get sly remarks and are sometimes touched by customers. They've notified management and even one of the owners and no one is doing anything about it so, I wanted to know if there was anything we could do to stop this from happening.

just found out my job is paying me less than half of the industry average in my area. I'm furious. I'm in an apprenticeship programmer position. This company offered me a position while I was at a homeless shelter, paying me 20 an hour, ~33K per year. I'm in Seattle. I'd grown a little suspicious of how good they claimed I was getting it lately, especially after I saw an ad for working at Dick's drive-in, a fast food restaurant in Seattle, which had better benefits, and payed a dollar less. then the other day I talked to someone who's been deeply involved in the programming industry for a while, and found out that their company offers about 100K per year for apprenticeship programs. which, tbf, is higher than the industry standard. which brought me to look into what the industry standard actually was. turns out, in my area, it's…

A little back-story: Small company in Europe. Bosses who expect everyone to work as hard as they do even though they get profit share and none of the employees do. Fixed salary, no OT paid but “time for time” is the norm. As you can expect, time for time is a fairytale when you're doing 100hr weeks just to keep the place from crumbling. Done enough OT to have a full years worth of paid holidays. Current employer offered to increase my salary by almost 40 percent without benefits once I told them I was leaving. New employer is offering 20%, indefinite contract, full benefits, bonus scheme and 10-20% YOY raises for the next 3-5 years. If I'd stayed, I'd basically be stuck on that wage for the rest of my life as that was far and beyond the ceiling of said position. I'd more than likely be the first…