Me: We need more diversity in our staff. Boss: We are diverse! Staff should reflect our population. The percentage of Asians in Grand Rapids is 3%. You’re one out of 16 people on our team. That’s 6%! Me: (in my head) Guess I should cut myself in half to properly reflect our population. Me: (again in my head) I wasn’t just talking about Asians, asshole.
As everybody knows the cost of living has skyrocketed the past couple of years. My rent went up $300 a month this year in a major city in the US. Gas prices are up, cost of groceries are up too. After two years of no increase, my university announced an increase of our stipend by 3% this year (which equates to an additional $80 a month). It’s better than nothing but doesn’t come close to match the increase in cost of living in my city over the past couple years. I really want to get involved and start advocating for better pay for grad students at my university. I looked into the grad student union, and we have one, but it’s very low membership rates and is through some national organization which requires you to pay $15 monthly dues. I’m already practically broke so I don’t want to be shoveling…
Got fast food? Went to a big box? Hit up the chain t-shirt hut? +++ tl;dr: poison the surveys and try an action visible by those currently working. make it a talking point? +++ Take 10 min for the union and hit the survey with the worst metrics. All options bad/slow/unsatisfied and make the only open comment field “ANTIWORK”. Make their managers and district managers see a month by month change in “number go down”. Either they acknowledge this happening or they are backed into not talking about customer feedback openly. There are bonuses tied to these numbers. Take their reward away, make them regret taking an action that we can act against. Collective long term action. I'm going to start a pile of recites, and when i have the time I'll process one. and then another, and another, and another…… Ultimate wished for goal is: No more talk about…
Make an associate get paid to talk to you. ask them how their day is. learn about a product. don't be creepy. keep it professional and simply talk to a fellow worker from another store. Take associates off the sales floor, make management react instead of dictating. edit: chose the wrong spelling option.
As a person who’ve worked hard and earned my living, I believed that working to earns one living was the way to go until I realized that it was stupid and meaningless to certain extent and knew I couldn’t do it until I was 62. I started working at the age of 10 delivering newspapers to working under the table restaurant jobs, retails, bit of military, to now doing IT as a career. I’ve recently turned 30 and can happy to say that I have somehow retired. (From stock investing/dividends and VA disability) quit 3 weeks ago. I don’t believe in hard work like I used to when I was younger. I started to think that working smarter would get me financial freedom and it did. I don’t have a dream job or at least not anymore. I thought I enjoyed doing IT but not anymore cuz of people and…
https://imgur.com/a/1RRx4EC Shit has hit the fan hard enough that the military is advertising being able to serve while having a second job! (Instead of, ya know, one paying enough to not need the other) Smdh what a fucking society we live in
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Question for the community.
Long and short: I’m working minimum wage waiting tables and I’m curious about the demographics of this group. How many of you work in the USA? And if not, where are you from?
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Antiwork theme song?
Hi team -Heard one of my favourite songs from Cold Chisel – Bow River – about a guy who's sick of “working on the engine line” and the “Money I saved won't buy my youth again” – hope you enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2by810nulE FWIW – I've taken a “gap year” from high school teaching as I am burnt out after 2 years of online “teaching”…
Hello everyone Sorry if this is not the appropriate place to post this but I'm kind of desperate for some advice. I took family leave because I just had a daughter and I did all the paperwork and I was supposed to not get paid from my job and instead get the whole family leave money for 12 weeks. Anyway I got paid for my job by accident someone in HR didn't do their job and I alerted them so that I could return it. I come back to work today and I found out that not only do they want what they gave me but any deductions from my paycheck such as income tax, state tax, my deferred compensation plan and Medicare. But I still have to give the base money back So to make it a simple summary let's use some numbers. My gross pay is 1000$. My…