Antiwork

I'm obviously unionized, my contract calculates my hours based on a 4 week schedule. I'm not allowed to work over full time hours in the 4 weeks, I don't get overtime. The kicker, in a small department I a part time employee, have to cover a second round of coworker out with covid. I am literally the only one, who can. Other pt on vacation. This week I will end up with 44hrs (37.5 is full time) with no overtime pay. Next week I will work somewhere beware 56 and 63.5, while my husband is away and my parents are in Florida. I work 12 hr shifts with the occasional 8. All are days. I have adhd, have a daughter struggling with mental health, she's 12. How is this right, or ok??? I'm so angry and frustrated. She'll be home every day alone. No one cares, just go do it,…

I work for a large employer with offices around the country. In my state, we are subject to local (city) income taxes. My employer erroneously changed my location in their system to a state that does not require local income tax payments. This happened mid way through last year. So needless to say, because they weren’t withholding, I owe a substantial amount to my city for taxes. Do I have any recourse for their mistake?

Just came out of my performance review and I have to vent my frustration. Nothing to say about my performance, it has been “absolutely stellar”. My title gets “promoted” to better reflect my responsibilities, which I am fine with. Btw, it's a small company and the CEO has all the powers. Then comes the discussion about salary. I had already been prospecting outside to know what I am worth, essentially around 120k. I am paid 80k currently. My manager is very open with me and agrees, he sends an email to the CEO in front of me. The CEO answers back in a few minutes and my manager looks very offended. He shows me the email and it says “saayaminator should ABSOLUTELY NOT get a higher salary than employee B.”. Employee B was an intern just a month ago, I figured he was paid a lot less than me. But…

I just left a job where I was on salary having to drive an hour away for work and working 60+ hours a week as a hiring manager for a food company. My boss was shocked I was leaving but I didn’t have the heart to tell him off for how him and the company ran people into the ground with no support. In hindisght I should’ve realized that if I had to learn everything myself that expectation would be on any new hires. I’ve had days where the new person was by themselves and I was stuck making all the food. It wasn’t until I went through being off with Covid that it hit me just how messed up my position really was. I could barely hire the people I needed and my boss never expected anybody but me to do the grunt work. I hate to say it…

I work in finance/accounting for a commercial general contractor in the US and I oversee projects between $100-$200m USD. I’m in-charge of invoicing the client and making sure that all vendors and subcontractors are paid, tracking every dollar coming in or out. This includes paperclips for the office or multimillion dollar contracts with subs. I am currently assigned to two projects that total almost $300m and we charge both of them as if I am working for them 100% but it’s impossible for me to do that. My company is charging them each almost $10k a month but paying less than $6k… As a kicker, since it’s construction they require me to be onsite 100% and no remote work possible so I spend 2 hours a day in traffic. I’m just so sick of having to appease two different teams, feeling exhausted and depressed unable to get myself out of…

With the economy and wage stagnation, inflation, and dour world outlook, it's increasingly clear that safety nets are only for the wealthy. For years, my immediate family (mom and sibling) have been saving up to get a house that would be our only bit of family wealth and safety net in case something happened to any of us. Just having a place to go and something to inherit in the future is a really big deal. We started adulthood on food stamps without startup money and only car debt to our names; it's taken my whole life to become lower middle class. With the housing market completely inaccessible, we're not really sure what we can do. Stock market investing is gambling for rich people and not wise when your situation is just as volatile as the economy. Raises aren't happening and job hopping for better pay only goes so far.…

​ While discussing with her mother Sue how she gets paid for selling plastiware, with free plastiware, Maureen Murphy asks “is there money in the bowls?” to which Sue responds “I need to pay attention to the road.”