Antiwork

A big debate in this sub is housing not being affordable. But in Japan, it seems very common that young people often live alone in their own apartment. Whereas in the US that would be very difficult with just 1 source of income and no roommate. So my questions are: What is minimum wage in Japan? Do jobs offer benefits and 401k like in the US? How often do companies provide raises? What is a normal work week like? 9-5 mon-fri? This is just my guess, but I’m assuming a decent about of money is saved by not owning a car and taking public transportation instead? I had heard that some companies will pay for your daily commute to work 🙂 If you’re not familiar with the price to own a car in the US, you have to pay about $250-300 a month depending on the type of car you…

I've finally done it. After reading this sub and feeling trapped for so long i got out. I have worked at a local business for 8 years i started young and just after the son bought the company and basically started over from scratch. I have been working 6 days a week for 8 years except the last few winters. My first few years they would split my pay between two of their companies so they didn't have to pay overtime, i have no benefits because they “cant afford them” and i didn't have a paid day off until year 7. With the company starting from scratch it was relatively unorganized and didn't have people for all of the roles. Trying to climb my way through the company so i can hope that one day the owner might sell the company to me. (His constant reminder anytime i come to…

My airline which shall not be named at this time is highly against a union. The pilots have pushed to make changes and they haven't seen them at all. I can't be too specific because I assure you the absolute dog shot treatment we've endured since the pandemic began would make the lot of you insane. My issue is, our higher ups and by higher I mean faces of the company continue sending emails out speaking about “how bad they are, beware, you shouldn't do this” are these legal tactics from them in this situation. I thought companies weren't allowed to speak on a union being formed in their company.

I work for an accounting firm on a salaried position. I also have a shit ton of responsibilities within the company that usually take 10 – 15 hours. The boss schedules time after I get off for a meeting where she tells us we need to put in a minimum of 38 hours of client work per week. Okay, could’ve told me that in an email. She then calls me the next day and tells me some others were asking if it would be okay to work more hours to get internal projects done. So she’ll “allow” me to work on internal projects like business development over 40 hours. Keep in mind there is no comp time, additional pay, or even a commission for bringing in new clients. I just said, thanks for letting me know. I won’t be doing those internal responsibilities if they take more than 2 hours.…

I was a boarder at the National School of the Arts in Johannesburg at the tail end of Apartheid. My window in the hostel was on the fifth floor, and around us were skyscrapers of mostly transparent glass. One of my entertainments was in watching a guy in the neighboring skyscraper whose job it was to sweep the floor of the building. I assume he was hired by a company that had offices on only the fourth floor, because I always saw him sweeping the same narrow corridor, with doors to different offices behind him. He had a white guy in a dark blazer who would sometimes come up to check on him, but I figured out from observation, while smoking joints on the windowsill in the early hours of the morning, that this old black man had a full time job in which he swept all the dust into…