I have a feeling that current events, such as the invasion of Ukraine by Russia will have most viewing r/antiwork as well as the newer subreddit that recently spawned after the Fox news interview r/workreform as evil communist propaganda / anti-capitalist propaganda and only drive people more towards the same corporations that had once overworked and underpaid these people. People are simply seeking an alternative to work where they aren't literally dying, mandatory working 80+ hours a week at 1.5x pay, proper work-life balance. There's a good following of members on Reddit though we still need to earn followers outside of Reddit — those are going to be harder since those are the follower I am talking about in this post. The type of followers that live in Small Town, Iowa with a population of 2,974. I promise if a single person from a town like that saw any of…
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“I’m not coming in until I get paid”
This happened almost a decade ago. I was working for a small local marketing company that paid us via direct deposit. One pay day morning I woke up, checked my account, saw that I hadn’t been paid, and immediately texted my boss and said (politely) that I hadn’t been paid and wasn’t coming in until I was. I got a call a minute later and was told I’d have a physical check in my hand as soon as I walked through the door. I knew it was just an innocent error/mistake, but homie don’t play that.
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Are you employed?
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Waking up from the American dream
https://preview.redd.it/fn4lhdc72kl81.png?width=640&format=png&auto=webp&s=26d0ac7b88d5bb7f74e5988de6b635f5fe6959b9 Been seeing posts about how 30-35 years ago someone with a relatively modest job could own a home. Personal homeownership is becoming a thing of the past. We'll look back in another 35 years and marvel that people used to actually be able to buy their own homes, rather than renting from the private equity megafunds buying up distressed rental properties around the country right now. One example. “The private equity firm Blackstone, the largest owner of commercial real estate in the world, is expanding its portfolio of rental housing and commercial real estate in the United States.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/16/business/blackstone-real-estate-acquisition.html The only people who will own their homes in 2050 and beyond will be the few high income folks buying them today, who hang onto them for the next three decades as mortgage rates soar and rent inflation skyrockets. Homes will be passed to their children as key family…
“Still,” our friends often warn us, “take care you do not go too far! Humanity cannot be changed in a day, so do not be in too great a hurry with your schemes of Expropriation and Anarchy, or you will be in danger of achieving no permanent result.” Now, what we fear with regard to Expropriation is exactly the contrary. We are afraid of not going far enough, of carrying out Expropriation on too small a scale to be lasting. We would not have the revolutionary impulse arrested in mid-career, to exhaust itself in half measures, which would content no one, and while producing a tremendous confusion in society, and stopping its customary activities, would have no vital power — would merely spread general discontent and inevitably prepare the way for the triumph of reaction. There are, in fact, in a modern State established relations which it is practically impossible…
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Call Centers and Diapers
SOOO after a talk with my boss yesterday, it turns out I am taking too many bathroom breaks. I take medication that makes me very thirst; therefore, I have to pee a lot. I usually take 1-3 minutes every hour or two. Apparently that is too much time off of the phones. I asked if I should just wear an adult diaper. I was told “well, I won't tell you what to do.” So, I have bought my first pair of adult diapers so I can keep this job. (I need the money and am looking elsewhere in the meantime) To preface this, I have a disability and we have been on forced overtime for 2 months…and will be for the foreseeable future. I asked for a MINOR accommodation (just 40 a week under ADA reasonable accommodation). Boy was that a mistake. Now I can't take ANY breaks outside our…
You see it in so many ways. When meeting someone new, we usually ask them what they do for work way before we ask them what they do for pleasure. People will give someone automatic respect and trust without knowing the person based on a job title. It has almost become embarrassing for women to say that they are a stay at home mother. As though they aren’t valuable or respectable unless they have a career. I think the majority of us are still okay with working. We just don’t want work to be the top priority in our lives and we want recognition for the sacrifices we are making(not spending time with our families, friends and personal passions).
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Is my boss being dodgy?
I have 6 supervisors. 2 are store managers (So can do things) and 4 are supervisors (So can't really do anything). Due to a combination of factors, on february 25th, I've suffered a massive anxiety attack 7 hours into a 10 hour shift and noped out (professional freakout. Hid it from customers, properly cashed out, left as procedure-correctly as I could). Boss boy heard and wanted “A chat” since the next shift, 2 days later (A week tomorrow) 2-3 times now, I was told it'd be today and later. Then I was told, can't because [reasonexcuse]. I actually half-pushed this topic when he had to cash me up, and he seems to have misunderstood what “flexible” means when I applied. I think he thought he could just toss me a lot of hours at his leisure – which to his credit he only did during a tough work week,…
I accepted a job offer for a full time position (40 hours a week) for a small business that employs less than 20 people in NJ. The owner said after 6 months I would be entitled to benefits such as health and paid time off. I thought the waiting period to receive health was 90 days, and he’s doubling it. Is what he’s doing allowed?