Antiwork

The details: In April of 2020 I was hired as a covid screener at my hospital. This was a student position, as no one thought covid would last so long. I am not in medicine nor do I wish to get into healthcare, anyone with social skills can do my job. We were hired on a contract for 6 months. Wage is $17/hour (im canadian) and minimum wage for the province was $14.35. After 6 months covid didnt go away. Hired for another 6 but they retro-paid us at a rate of $21 for working during the pandemic which was nice. Well, surprise surprise covid got much worse and lasted for another year. Now its 2022 and my entire department has been working for $17 an hour after the first intial 6 months of the pandemic. Minimum wage will increase to $15.55 on April 1 so our rate is no…

If you count up the percentage of your salary taken by taxes and deductions today marks your first day of actual pay from your yearly salary. Now this is an absolute best case scenario indeed as some people will not see a dime of their money until May or July. Cheers to for working for the government, employer “benefits”, and other expenses related to your commutes!

Thank you to this community r/antiwork. I’ve following and learning from this subreddit for a while now. And it inspired me to put my two weeks notice in and get a job that has better hours and benefits. I’m very excited for my new job. Like yeah I wish I could just live in the forest sustainably and off the grid. But that’s not in the cards right now. I would just go straight to my next job, but my current place is kinda small. I know for a fact that there are multiple people applying and calling to check on the management’s response to their applications, and being ignored. So the business will be fine. I’m staying the two weeks for the benefit of my coworkers. I don’t want them to suffer cause my boss is getting burnt out and taking his frustration out on employees. I’m also not…