Antiwork

Made a post yesterday about my upcoming departure from my workplace due to a new employee that works under me making pretty much the same hourly wage I do. Several people commented that the reason I'm leaving is my business and the employer doesn't need to hear it. But I'm wondering, how are things supposed to ever improve if we aren't direct with them? I'm leaving because I have years more experience and deserve a better rate out of pure logic. They need to know this, so that the employer knows their pay needs to be better all around, and the remaining employees maybe start thinking they also deserve better. How does just leaving without explanation help the cause?

So im obviously for reform when it comes to employers treating their employees better, better conditions, etc. One of the main points I see that needs changing is the wage gag in so many companies. For me a lot of it comes down to wealth inequality. The argument usually goes “raise the minimum wage or people should pay more.” Followed by someone saying “well then the price of everything will just go up?” I'm personally not an economist and I don't know the logistics of this argument and for the most part it's all speculation. My proposed idea however is this; if the government can set a minimum wage what is stopping them from setting a cap or a maximum wage? Genuine question, what would happen if, for example the government came in and decided CEOs/business owners are legally not allowed to make 50x their entry level employee. (I don't…

First of all, think about that word. Anti work. The antithesis of work. The opposite of work. Workn't, if you will… a lot of people seem to think this sub is about a LOT of things, but rarely is “workn't” one of them. People who have never been here think we want to all be lazy and live of food stamps and welfare while other people work. Those people are delusional, and think that the concept of a “job” is vital for human development. I think it stems back to the puritans, with ideals like “idle hands are the devil's plaything” and “I'm dying not because of my lifestyle but demons have infected my blood!” … tragic. But more tragic than that are the other group of misconceivers. People have postulated for some time now that the greatest threat to any progressive movement is not and never will be those…

Does anyone else have a boss that does petty crap like this? My boss comes in nearly every day, at least once, and checks the drawers and if there's anything higher than a $5 bill he will swap it out for $5s and/or $1s. Our drops at the end of the night can be hundreds of dollars and I'm forced to count that crap out in $5s every time. I just want to toss it all around the store and walk out. On top of that, he loads the drawer up with coin rolls as if we are going to run out of change in a day. He also will break open change rolls if the change looks low, but the thing about dimes is that they're smaller so he will break a roll of dimes if there's $4 in the drawer, meaning I have to count around 90 damn…