Antiwork

My company is holding a large annual event this week for our clients. VP of the company today asked if I would like to go to dinner with the rest of the company (under 30 employees, family-owned biz) the night before the event starts, and that all of the office staff (the only 3 non-exempt employees in the whole company) are invited. I’m assuming most of the talk at dinner will be about the event, thus it would be a working meal. There will likely be key topics discussed that are important (I can’t imagine this is solely a social event), but this job is just a paycheck for me and I don’t care to engage in off-hours social time with anyone nor spend more time working than necessary. Should I accept the invitation on condition that I’m paid for my time? If I’m paid to be at the dinner,…

First of all, I manage a convenience store in a neighborhood that has earned me the respect of people to go to jail on my behalf. I keep it clean, stocked, and do things I ask my team to do. Starting at the end of August, my boss and her boss (district and regional managers) thought it would be a good “experiment” to see what would happen if my store and another in a small town had no outdoor trash cans. No gas island and none outside my doors. No data, no info, no reasoning, no nothing. It goes how you expect and I keep sticking the trash can back out after a couple of weeks of taking pics of the trash. This has been going on for months. No updates, no asking for data, nothing. Last night, my supervisor and her partner removed my trash can again. Her partner…

Small rant Not sure what to do about this bs The average wage in HU is around 1,125 forints or 3.5 dollars for an hour of basic work like a cashier or gardener or construction even in Budapest where you would expect it to be higher. Austria is a 3 hour drive and one can EASILY earn around 14 Euros an hour or 15 dollars and one can quite quickly get onto a much better healthcare plan and unemployment  benefits if they stay there for not long The sad part is most supermarket food prices in both countries are the same…  things like white bread,eggs, milk , some vegetables will be cheaper but almost everything else equal price or more expensive when it comes to quality. .. i had to come back to Hungary a while ago to help my partner and our kid and because of some laws and…

I’ve been a part of this subreddit for who knows how long now. I am 20 years old, live alone except for two cats, and just got back to the highest pay point i’ve ever made, $15/hour. I cant do school since i’m already $5000 in debt to a trade school, and hoping that gets cancelled, but i’m far too young to have other skills. I don’t have ambitions of being rich or famous, but just living comfortably. The job I have is easy enough, and decent enough that the pay is okay, yet i’m always struggling to make ends meet. So today, I will be temporarily leaving the subreddit because I see people struggling much more than I am, and unable to do anything about it. I am unable to do anything about my situation right now and when I read peoples success stories it just upsets me and…

A few months ago I left a job of ten years. The micro managing had gotten severe. A few co-workers were constant back stabbers/rats/suck up to the owner, lying douche bags. Outside of that I liked it but it took its toll after a decade. We stay in jobs because either we have to or we just get comfortable and/or scared. I have been in the same Industrial hose and fittings industry for 20 years. I'm 44. Staying in that industry has made it so I can at least make a living wage without college (I have high school and 2 years community college which is meaningless). I recently started a new job in an office, which is supposed to lead to outside sales. Same industry. Day one, the manager who is training me is bad mouthing the other sales person. Micromanaging his paperwork. She even went as far as…

UBI when?? I don't want to go into too much detail – a couple of my coworkers use reddit and I really don't want to risk being identified. And by the sounds of things, I'll need to be super careful about holding onto my job for as long as possible now, because apparently it won't exist in the next few years. Or, the more likely case, the value of my labor will be so driven down by lack of demand as companies use AI to do my job instead. Basically, I was in a meeting today, and one of my coworkers brought up the topic of AI and automation, and how it was improving really rapidly in this particular field. The particular field that happens to crossover with my skillset and make up about 80% of my job. They were all getting excited about how amazing it is that technology…

That's it. That's literally the story. I did nothing wrong and this happened. Cool