Antiwork

About a year ago my manager and I signed off on a promotion to keyholder position with raise when we had a consistent staff, schedule and customer base. It’s retail so I completely understood and waited. We signed a written piece of paper and I took it in good faith. It finally happened the other day but as soon as the talk of the raise came up it suddenly became “oh I’ll have to talk to my boss” My boss talked to their boss, and now apparently there just won’t be a raise with the title promotion and extra responsibility that is entailed with being a key holder. The reason being is that the entire company did a training course to allow the entire staff a small raise. I’ve been treated like absolute garbage by the general retail/consumer public in hopes of a decent (or livable) raise with this promotion…

So on my last day my employer decided to pack up my desk. Which included a cup half full of coffee with all my electronics. My AirPods, desk fan, charging cords, and everything else is ruined and soaked with coffee. I’ve called HR, but what can I do? Can an employer do this?! This was Alaskahousing. Can add pictures below.

So I'm a new hire but my Starbucks is one of the top performers in the state. Getting the news that our hours will be gutted is obviously concerning. My management is delightful, I obviously don't blame them and the staff is 90% top notch. (Higher than average based on experience.) I want to help them, I want to help me. I want everyone's hard work to be rewarded. Is that possible or am I a fucking idiot?

I keep explaining to boomer family that minimum wage is not a livable wage. They say it's something to keep food on table and I say yeah after they have to go to food bank. I was really surprised since they are liberal.

I want to start by saying that I still firmly believe in what this subreddit has become, a place to unite in combatting mistreatment by employers and find solidarity with our fellow workers. However, the recent events have show us that we are not necessarily aligned in that being the goals, nor are those goals represented by our moderation team. I think every effort that the existing moderation team have made have just gone further to showing the deep fractures in the movement, and maybe that's not their fault? I recognize that what the sub has become is not necessarily aligned with what the original intentions of the sub were and much of the divide seems to be the inherent conflict there. So, my question to the collective is “what now?” How do we get back to moving forward? Do we move to another subreddit? If so, where? Do we…

Do companies do these things intentionally knowing it is unbelievably insulting to the employees and they just don't care about the ramifications like its some sick and twisted corporate game? Or are companies just this far removed from reality?