Antiwork

I think this is relevant to a lot of people on this sub. For those outside Australia, The Barefoot Investor has been called the biggest financial cult in Australia (and that is actually a good thing). I don't know if he has much presence outside Oz, but he does offer good advice in a very readable form, and also is a pretty good guy! Anyway, here's a snippet below I thought might be useful: … you do need to ask for a raise. Why? Well, if you don’t get at least a 5% pay rise this year, you’ll be going backwards. That’s because the prices of things are inflating at the fastest rate in years … and they haven’t stopped climbing. Think of inflation like being stuck on a treadmill that keeps getting faster and faster. You have no choice but to keep running, otherwise you’ll faceplant and be ricocheted…

So I recently left a job and have been sending out resumes since. One application had a pre employment screening and it required me to include the pay rate at every previous job. These were required fields, so I just wrote a one instead of my actual pay rate for every job listed. I didn’t really feel that was their business to require, so I just obviously bs it. Was that a “normal” thing to do? And how will that look to employers? Never done that before

I’ve been working at Walgreens for 3 weeks, this week is the start of the 4th. I barely got officially hired a couple days ago, even tho they’ve had me working over 80 hours. I wasn’t even trained they just threw me on the register on my first day. Anyway, they still have yet to set up my direct deposit or anything. My manager keeps telling me she forgot. I also haven’t been welcomed at all, i feel extremely uncomfortable there. On my first week I overheard my managers (who are cousins btw) talking shit about me, complaining. I really don’t know what to do, I don’t want to continue working there but I want to get paid. Any advice would be nice.

I’m 20, work with other young 20 year olds. Two of the people I work with put their whole life on display. It’s so mentally taxing coming into work having to deal with their emotional baggage of unloading all their traumas.. I mentally have to prepare for who I’m working with every day and push past my BPD just to put up with them. they think we are besties because we are simply close in age. Outside of work I have nothing in common with these mfs. They explicit talk about the guy they are fucking that week..even today they both dropped the bomb to vividly explain their rapes to each other out in the open right before a customer walked in. shook my mood right as my shift started, as I am a survivor of rape as well..I just choose not to confide in my coworkers who are actually…

I had been at my job for about 5 months and thought things were mostly going well and had never had a single warning, write-up, or conversation about how I was performing. I got along great with everyone I worked with and came to the position with a lot of experience in the industry. I had even worked with the company in the past as a vendor and knew many people in the office before I started. I checked in with supervisors daily to make sure I was on the right track, asking what needed to get done, and seeing if there was anything else I could help them with or take on. Two weeks ago I was fired. I was simply told it was “performance issues” and when I asked what performance issues the response was that it was closed matter. No other information whatsoever at all. Like I…

A little less than two months ago, I got a full time job that pays $20/hr. There was a month of training that didn’t go into very much depth, and then they sent me to another location to get my first week of work. That first week was awful, the customers were rude, the manager was rude, it didn’t seem worth it at all. I had hoped that putting my head down and getting through it would make it better. I made it through the week at the other location, though there were a lot of tears in the car rides home, and got back to my home location. It was supposed to be better, but all I’ve gotten is overworked, miscommunicated with, and the anger of my coworkers for not immediately knowing everything. Today was a really bad day, and I want to quit without notice, though I am…