Antiwork

If you have a cellphone, you've probably had or heard of Zagg screen protectors. The popular $30-40 glass screen protector with free replacements. Well, when I worked in Victoria Gardens Mall, in Rancho Cucamonga, CA.. I got hired at their kiosk by a nice guy about 5 years older than me that had bought franchise rights to open up shop and sell Zagg products. One of the large selling points of Zagg screen protectors, whether glass or otherwise, is that you can get them replaced for free – as long as you return the old one. We honored this at the kiosk, though we charged a $5 install fee to have us professionally install it for you. (New purchases got free installation and we had a no returns policy, only exchanges.) This was all well and good, other than Victoria Gardens being an outdoor mall. We were upfront about the…

Before you downvote or comment why I'm wrong, hear me out. We all need good, affordable Healthcare. And the first problem we encounter: it's not affordable. Not only is care not affordable, insurance rates for it are not affordable. Not with what low end jobs are paying. But yet we say “low wage jobs need to offer benefits!” and yes at first glance they do, they need to be held to the same standards as higher paying jobs. But that only works if the care they offer insurance rates that the employee can afford. And to my knowledge, they aren't. Just yesterday, I picked up maybe 4-5 prescriptions for my mother in law. Who makes roughly $35/hr, and has benefits. Her 4 prescriptions ran her $130!! Wait, you call that covered?? She's already paying them monthly! More and more employers are offering “benefits”, but why would they?? How does it…

Edit: TW – sexual harassment I worked at hobby lobby 7ish years ago and wanted to share my experience. When you’re hired, you usually start as a cashier/associate. This pays $10/hour. This is only part time. No benefits. The next step up means you manage a department (paper crafting, framing, jewelry, arts, etc). This pays $15/hour. This is a full time position. Benefits. It was hard to hit 40 hours but: •36 hrs at $15 = $2160 per month, pre-tax •20 hrs at $10 = $800 per month, pre-tax So obviously I wanted to be a department head.. Opportunity: My manager needed someone to cover for the jewelry & wearable art dept. I had proved my “aptitude” and volunteered. Now I was under a training role, but still being paid $10/hour. (Important) Let’s lay out responsibilities of a full time dept head: -Mondays we put in orders to restock our…

Several years ago, I was working for a company that was trying to secure a round of venture financing. The folks they were talking to said that they wouldn't give them the financing unless they laid off all of the engineering team and devoted all of the capital to sales and marketing. It has never made sense to me that they wanted to get rid of engineering because, without engineering, you have no product to sell so why would you need sales and marketing? Companies spend millions of dollars on marketing – the recent Superbowl blitz has proven this out with the $6.5M price tag for a 30-second spot. They'll also spend millions of dollars trying to keep employees from unionizing and filing lawsuits to keep them from changing jobs. All this while making billions of dollars in profit off the backs of employees that they will pay the absolute…

So, just under a month ago I was looking at job adverts and sent my CV off to a few places. I didn't figure it'd go anywhere, really, it was just a casual look-through to see what was out there. Well, long story short I now work for a new company in a completely different field. (Used to be teaching, I now work in an office doing corporate compliance, organising audits and testing) The same day I was offered the office job, I sent through my resignation letter. In the email I asked some questions, e.g, if you're not the right person to contact please point me in the right direction. (I sent the letter through to the head of my region for teaching, I answered to her for everything else, so figured it was the right person) Never heard anything back. Three days later I sent a second email…

Had a conversation (I'll just call it that and move on) the other day that amounted to: Me: Right. Because not drinking Starbucks and not using Netflix means I can buy a house. Let's say $6 a day for Starbucks, $20 for Netflix (I don't know what Netflix costs but I'm sure they've got some option that costs more). And let's say you get Starbucks on the weekends too. So there, $200 a month. Where do I get a house for $200 a month?” The other person then, with an absolutely straight face, started to explain that after 10 years, that would be $24,000, which is more than enough for a downpayment in some parts of the country. I decided to break off the conversation at that point because I really thought I was going to start screaming. IS THERE a way to get the point across to these people?…