Antiwork

I hate having to pretend that I like a job or make up a BS reason for why I want to work at a place or be excited to work there. Why can't we just be honest? Have you got a job without doing the shgar coating?

I live in a college town in Montana and work for a big box retailer. Currently the average rent price for a 1 bedroom apartment is $1095/ month (up 19% from last year). If we paid our employees $12/hour (most do not make this much) and they work 40 hours per week (most people are part time) they would earn $2080 before taxes. From my time working in the financial industry, credit bureaus recommend keeping your debt to income ratio below 35%. My coworkers are spending well over 50% of their paycheck on rent and that is before considering cc debt, student loan, medical, auto, or anything else. One problem is these national corporations do market research based on the whole state. Eastern rural montana has a VASTLY different cost of living versus places like Missoula, Bozeman, Billings, etc. So corporate doesn't see the need to increase wages in these…

I started showing symptoms on Sunday. I thought it was just allergies until they started to become more and more severe. I wasn’t scheduled to work till Wednesday. I woke up Wednesday morning feeling even more terrible so I called my manager hours before my shift to let her know and her tone did not seem very happy. Today I woke up with a new loss of smell and taste, I just got off the phone with her to let her know that I will not be able to work until I get tested. She got angry (I live in Texas btw) I apologized for the inconvenience this might be and she said okay and hung up on me. This is just a part time, I work maybe 18 hours at this job Soo I don’t see what her deal is. We aren’t understaffed or anything like that. Now I…

I’m 33 M, I was asked by a family member to join with them for a start up, it was HELL! I just need to vent so bare with me, it started out fine but then we went corporate YES CORPORATE! I mean the whole nine, I had to get all sort of insurances and they wanted to get all sort of insurances that the accountant was brainwashing them to get and then they hit me with it’s gonna come out of your pay, we’ll a percentage of it I live in California I was making $690 Dollars a week for 12 Hours work! On top of that I still had to maintain the vehicles and think of marketing strategies, I kept going blindly with the promise of “you’ll become a partner soon” that went on for about 2 years the next years were even worse COVID hit and it…