Antiwork

I am currently happily employed in Europe, have 7 weeks of Paid Time Off, work 40hr/week and my overtime always rolls into extra vacation days. I never have to worry about health care or any surprise bills. I am also currently interviewing for other positions here in Europe with similar perks and possibly a 30-50% jump in pay. ​ I recently got offered an insane offer from a California Tech Start-Up -> They really need my skillset. My salary negations went so well that they are offering me 4x of what I earn now + a yearly bonus, that's based on my perfomance. That's a life changing amount of money! I know cost of living in California is much higher than Europe but like we're talking about 4x the money. ​ But here's the problem -> Their glassdoor reviews say that they have no work/life balance. Apparently 12+hr days are…

You know what would show people were serious? A major strike. If we had as many people as possible strike at once it would be more than enough to get our voices heard. I said it once before and I'll say it again: we've shown the world we can fuck with the stock market, now let's show them we can fuck with the job market. We need a date to strike that we can all agree and act on. I personally am not a leader so I cannot bring myself to organize such a big strike. Personally however, it should be about two months from now. Enough time for bosses to fear it and so many others can hear it. We need the media to catch on and for the news to bring light to the subject. I say we act on April fools, something about it sounds right. If…

I work at a small family owned restaurant with a team of less than 10 people for the front of house, including our hosts. Hosts are responsible for seating, bussing etc, as well as taking to-go orders. Hosts keep all of their own tips from take outs as well as getting a tip out at the end of the night for helping servers on the floor. I am one of those servers Tonight, the assistant store manager was acting as our host, as that is part of his job, and at the end of the night he collected tip outs from all three of the servers working. Not only was he making tips from all of our to-go orders but he also makes much more than any of our usual hosts do! I was upset to say the least. I usually don't have a problem with tipping him out of…

This will be my first post on Reddit, so hello everyone! ​ I'll keep this short but I had a thought I wanted to share. I figured at this point in my life, I'm probably not going to be an entrepreneur (work on my own terms) or become rich (LOL). I'll most likely end up having to work a “9-5” for the rest of my life. It's not something I'm “happy” with but have come to terms with. I live in a place that gets the seasons in terms of weather in the US (hot in the summer, cold in the winter, etc), but thought to myself, I hate the cold. Now, if I'm going to end up doing this 9-5 business for the rest of my life, along with the fact that the standard age of retiring may rise a year or two by the time I get close…

I'm here for a goddamn paycheck, which barely covers my rent.