Antiwork

I’m a cocktail bartender in Chicago. I’ve been running programs for over five years and I love it. It’s fast paced, creative and good money (tipping culture aside). However, the pandemic has me constantly asking myself “is this my last bartending job?” On Monday this week, our GM messaged the staff saying the restaurant is out of money, and that we’ll try to limp through two weeks so staff can get paid and have time to look for new jobs in the mean time. On Tuesday it was closing that week Saturday. On Thursday it was “Friday’s it. It’s been a good ride…” I’m super sad. It’s a small independent restaurant, they treated us well, paid me well enough I could afford to live working 3 days a week so I can focus on my art/teaching practice, and they were trying to figure out how to get the staff health…

I was paid Monday- Sunday at my old job. Worked Monday, got into an argument with my boss on Tuesday and he called me (on my day off) and told me I was done. Today I should have seen a direct deposit for that work week. Not sure what I was expecting, a full weeks pay or even 1/5. There was no deposit at all. I plan on reaching out but want to know my rights first so I can ask them for what I deserve. I’ve tried googling but NYS labor laws are a mess. Can I ask for the full weeks pay or am I not technically owed it because I only worked 1 day out of a normal 5?

I once worked at a horrible business. The boss was crude, made sexual comments, and called us fucking idiots. But it paid pretty good. Then things got worse and I was being expected to finish projects in 1/2 the time they normally take. The pressure was just unreal. After this went on for about a month, got called into the office and fired. Found out that a coworker who had been at the company for years went through my desk and found a pay stub. I was making a lot more than her, for the same position, and she went to the boss and threw a fit, demanded a raise, and demanded I be let go. She was an evil person. So the boss promised to get rid of me and he was trying to make me quit with all the unreachable goals and pressure he was demanding of me.…

I applied for a position, and the questionnaire on the company website included a salary requirement. I put down my rate. They reach out for an interview. I accept. I put in time and effort to present my best self in the interview. At the very end of a very lengthy and comprehensive interview, the topic of salary comes up. They tell me that their pay rate is lower than the one I put in their application questionnaire. They then go on about how they don’t pay the rate I explicitly put in my application. They then say that they will be in touch about a more realistic salary. I don’t understand this. I would not have bothered accepting an interview and wasting my time/energy had I known this. I don’t understand why they bothered to reach out at all. The rate I put in is just enough to be…

My boss requested to our IT department to monitor the email of someone on my staff. I sent a follow up email that I did not want want access to the email account as I am not comfortable doing this without the staff member knowing about it. I know our employee manual states that email communication is property of the company and that if warranted can be monitored. So now my boss will have access but I took a pass on it. Thoughts?

I’ve worked at this company for 5 years now and I might not of always liked the work but it was an easy enough job and it paid the bills, but in November of 2020 we were bought out by a big corporate auto dealership and things have just been going down hill. They switched our pay from hourly too flat rate (which if you don’t know it’s like a more complicated commission based off a set hourly rate) and if we didn’t agree we could leave. Our work load has near tripled, we’re treated like shit by the new management they brought in and when we complained about everything we were told “You need to change your mindset to better yourselves as people and employees.” Essentially telling us ‘we’re not the problem, you wanting better conditions is the problem.’ But the health insurance is really good and I’m making…

I work in healthcare and just left an extremely toxic environment. I was a receptionist. I brought up some issues about a coworker constantly being late.. like 30+ minutes late and being overwhelmed due to the amount of patients I was having to check in. I also learned this new employee makes a dollar more than I do. My other receptionist coworker constantly called in. She called in every Friday or Monday because she would go out of state to see her boyfriend. She Didn't have any Vacation time to use because she just started. This is a personal friend of the managers, so she was never written up for it. My niece passed away due to a heart issue and I was denied bereavement leave because the manager stated that wasn't a close enough relationship to qualify for bereavement. The manager above my manager gave me leave after hearing…

My boss called me this morning to let me know she won’t be there when I get in at 1 PM. She also called to asked me if anything was wrong because I have been acting differently… I pretty much broke down and told her that yeah something is wrong, it’s her. The way she addresses me, the frequency of how she talks down to me and how I just feel like I’m not doing anything right. I know I do my job decently (always room to learn and grow), I don’t cut corners and I get all the background work done for everyone else (which seems to go unnoticed). I don’t necessarily need this job, although it’s the highest paid job I’ve ever gotten. We talked about setting up a meeting with her supervisor, the president of the company but to be honest I don’t think any change will…