Antiwork

I have worked for a state agency in the United States over the few years and have never received a raise. State employee salaries are public record so I can see my coworkers pay to include raises. Roughly half my coworkers got no raise like me and half got 1-3% raises. The exception to this rule is at the director level where salaries starts at around $100K. These fine folks get 4-10% raises every couple of years. I got my hands on how much my unit spends on contracts and it blew my mind. We spent over $100M during my time at the state. One year, state legislatures and leaders even had the nerve to thump their chests saying “we saved money by not increasing the number of state employees this year.” This is such BS. A majority of these contractors are costing the state $50-150 an hour. Keep in…

My work has a lot of problems for being open for a little over a decade. For context we work in a medical clinic with quite a few doctors we medical assistants are assigned to them. Some of these doctors take a lot of vacations which is fine. But the medical assistants assigned to the doctors are scheduled to be off at the same time they have vacation. Of course unpaid, and we are on call. Unless we want to use pto. But then we need to meet a certain amount of hours to maintain benefits. So instead of saving our earned pto for our own vacations that we want to take on our time, we gotta save it for us to be forced on vacation. Multiple people complained yet management says in our handbook.

Just got told today (09MAR22) that starting this weekend I will be getting a schedule change to a 12 hour day shift with less days a week, but less hours than I had before. My biggest thing is going to day shift is going to be hell as all of my hobbies are normally day time as well as classes and my medical treatments from the VA. I’m just curious what you guys think I should do as I feel it is grounds for putting in a 2 week, but I don’t know. State is Texas btw

So as the title says my wife is 8 months pregnant, she just got her dream internship at her preferred company. Her start date is the end of the month but she’s due around the beginning of April. She just accepted her offer for the pay and start date. She doesn’t know when she should tell them that’s she pregnant. What do y’all suggest, I know this an r/antiwork thread but there’s a lot of knowledge in this group. Thanks y’all.

I am on average 10 years younger than the other support staff workers at my office. In my opinion, this should be seen as an accomplishment as I have the same job and qualifications as people who’ve had a decade longer to get here. Except no, I get treated like total fucking shit. I am treated outrageously different by management and the other support staff workers. I do not like making friends at work. I am friendly and can have pleasant small talk with people. But feel I just get totally written off my many of the staff because they “wouldn’t want to be friends with someone my age”, except I don’t want to be friends, I just want to be treated like a human being. I haven’t been able to take any vacation (an odd day here and there) time in 10 months I asked for just a couple…

I have noticed that most of not all of the posts in this sub are by American workers. Does that mean American workers are treated the worst (in comparison to other developed countries)? Or is it just that Americans make most of the people in this sub?

I struggled through school (3 different colleges over 7 years to get a bachelors in geology) in that time I had 2 children who are now 8 and 4 years old. Found a 45k/yr job working in a chemistry Lab straight out of college that's not very fulfilling… Now since the price of a barrel of oil is a kagillion dollars, geologists are finally being hired with 0 experience, and I'd easily make over 80k/year Biggest catch is, the schedule is shit. 84/hr weeks living on the drilling site, sometimes for 2 weeks, maybe even a month at a time. I'm only 30 years old now, and I feel like this opportunity will not present itself again until I'm too old to accept it. My decision is entirely based on FOMO of my kids best years. Unless some of you can convince me it's somehow worth it, one day I'll…

Just some off the top of my head: percent of full time workers earning below the poverty rate, average employee salary, ratio of CEO pay to lowest full time wage, average number of days off taken, percent of jobs filled internally (promotions), average cost of health insurance (U.S.), etc.