Antiwork

I decided to leave my 55hr per week every week job. I handed in my notice and worked for the month. On my last day I was told I could leave early so I did. However I did not fill in a timesheet, instead I emailed them my worked hours. They basically replied saying that because I did not fill in a time sheet they could not pay me for the month. I contacted ACAS (a employees rights organisation in the UK), long story short I had a tribunal with the bosses and received my full wage, interest on the time I didn't receive the money, holiday pay, and a settlement. In all I received around £5,000 approx. Almost £3000 more than if they had just paid me my original pay check. Not only that but I contacted the health and safety executive and informed him of some dodgy practises…

It’s because of you guys I realized how toxic my last work place was and I quit on the spot with no notice. Obviously, my goal is to not work under this system but I have to be able to afford to live so I found a much better job now. Without you all here to help, I would’ve never realized how short I was selling myself and would’ve never taken a risk like that. I was able to land a $3.50/hr raise, full benefits (half of them no cost to me), generous PTO, sick pay, holiday pay, travel stipend, no weekends, no/minimal overtime, room for growth upwards in company, paid training, catered lunches, free/reimbursed parking, uniforms paid for, birthday bonus giving job. I couldn’t be happier with my current job. If I have to work for now, at least I’m not miserable. Thank you all so much and I…

I know it’s not a super big deal since I only started my business 2 years ago, and I only have 2 employees (1 of them being me lol.) But I pay us both $25 an hour now! When I first started my business I was struggling because of the pandemic but I was able to pay myself $20hr, then when business ramped up I budgeted in another hire, I figured I would be able pay them $16hr to start.. but after taking on a few bigger jobs and being in such high demand now, January 1st I decided to charge more, and because of that I’m able to pay us BOTH $25hr! Its been going great! We’re both happy and we honestly work harder! We work 4 days (10 hours) where we get Friday, sat, and Sunday off. And we have plenty of work I lined up for the…

A number of years ago but a pretty good story. I was working at a 15-person startup, mostly super-senior engineers that would help clients fix gnarly or network or sysadmin issues for an hourly rate, or set up something overnight that would have taken them weeks. It was pretty cool to work with a variety of clients, not have anyone tell me how to do my job, and be truly appreciated when we could fix a disaster. About one year in, Mike, the boss, decided it was time to “get serious” and have a professionally designed logo / business cards / website. Being a service business putting high-priced consultants in the field, he felt strongly that we should have business cards. I volunteered to help because I had outsourced graphic design at a couple of other startups to do similar things. I went back to some people I used before,…

I started branching out a search for a new job following some moral disagreements with my current employer (Kroger corporate) and have noticed I am getting absolutely slammed with spam calls in the days after applying. It really feels like companies are selling my phone number to spam organizations because they know I'm in a position where I am more likely to answer calls from strangers as I wait to hear if I'm going to get an interview. Fuck everything

A few days ago I had a recruiter for a small NYC-based company reach out on LinkedIn and request a Zoom meeting. He was impressed with my skillset and experience and let me know of a new position that was opening at the company. It wasn't a FAANG style company or anything, but it was far from small, and he actually told me the salary for the role. As I'm looking for a job, I thought “sure, why not?” We schedule a Zoom meeting for yesterday and everything starts smoothly. The recruiter joins with his assistant shadowing the interview. A change of pace for an interview in my opinion, but hardly unusual. The recruiter begins with their usual spiel about the role and the company and so on, and I explain my history and skillset, all while the assistant is taking feverous notes. About 10 minutes into the interview, the…

Amazon continually treats their employees and subhuman. Amazon continues to Union bust, And makes excruciating environment for their employees. How are we allowing them to have a 4.9 star rating? I think it’s time we read this company accurately.

I currently make $90k/y and I’m interviewing with a company who said they could match it. Now, on the last interview they say “an offer is coming, but it’s probably $70k/y but our company is really good!” Who in their fucking right mind would take a $20k step back?