Antiwork

I have a review coming up and I agreed to a salary position in Accounting, for a small business. I believe I have been doing great work for the company and I will have a review coming up. I would like to negotiate a raise and my question is should I ask for the bare minimum of a 7% raise of my salary due to inflation in 2021? Since technically I didn't get paid what I agreed on since inflation changed my salary's worth? Or is this just a “stupid” arguing point to try and use since inflation is just a part of life?

So I have been wondering for a while if the whole “Urgently Hiring” sign or quote is legitimate or not in practice. Allow me to explain. I have been out of work for a while, but have constructed my resume well (even with outside instruction on the format of it). It's a complete resume and there's no red flags from what I can read that would bar me from finding a job. Clean record, no offences at work or anything like that. Though working generally sucks, you gotta do what you can to cover the bills. However, regardless of my fair experience and work ethic; I also tend to interview decently without saying too much, I still can't lock down job. For a work market that claims to be struggling and in dire need of workers, it seems like it's impossible to secure a basic wage job. Anyone else have…

I worked for Progressive Insurance as a sales representative for a few years. There were countless stories that could make the front page of r/antiwork. One that comes to mind was when the company finally hit the $20 billion mark and they came around and layed decorated cookies on our desk. Quietly as to not interrupt our peaceful work. “You made $20 billion dollars?”, “here's a cookie”. Once, during employee appreciation week they handed out the little bags of chips and water. Good times!!

Player's unions for organizations like the NBA, NFL and NHL, parce out half of the income revenue to their players, and each player is given what they have negotiated for and their negotiations are based on how much money that player brings to the organization that owns the team, or somethingto that effect. I might be wrong about that but as far as the arguments in the class action lawsuit against the UFC, that reasoning was sited as an example of why the fighters should be paid their fair share. 50/50 makes a lot of sense to me. I'm not at all a financial expert, but this makes sense to me I'm kinda hopinf this community will poke holes in the idea so I can shore it up. For large companies (I picked an arbitrary number of 100 or more employees for no real reason) half the of income revenue…

An older gentleman was hired by my company and started this week. He's very knowledgeable and experienced, so while doing some training on our system I asked him about his previous jobs. He went on to tell me about how in the early 2000s he managed a couple successful AT&T stores. His total pre-tax take home (salary, bonuses, etc) was over $140k. They offered him the same job again a few years ago for $60k, and were surprised he didn't jump at the opportunity. I'm constantly surprised at the absolute lack of understanding by companies, even when I should know better. Even though they acknowledged that he was a valuable employee and had decades of experience, they still go on to low-ball as if it's a “favor” to get a mediocre offer.

I’m terrible at negotiating. I’m the lowest paid with the most experience/time with the company. I’ve gotten one raise in three years and still make less than the others. I feel like the only way my boss will agree to pay me the more is if I help out at a new facility until they can find coverage. It’s crazy that the only way I feel I can make what I should at this company is to do the work of others. As crazy as that is I stay for the flexibility and short commute. Would you do it?