Antiwork

FTR Electrical & HVAC Services violated labor laws by capping staff pay at eight hours a day, no matter how long they actually worked, the Department of Labor (DOL) said in a lawsuit first filed in May 2020. Employees regularly worked between 45 and 54 hours a week, but the company didn't pay staff extra for overtime, the DOL said.

For context, I’m under suspicion and they “haven’t heard back” so I low key know I’m terminated. But is it a workers right laughs I know about letting someone know so they can fully look for another job and pick up personal items? Or can they legally just terminate you and keep your personal items (like a radio)

So I've worked for the same boss for 25 years. When I was hired as operations staff and then became a operations manager. I do manage locations but I've never been good at the sales side. I'm more the person who deals with repairs, store set ups contract negotiations, and making sure everything runs smoothly. The job has been long hours, but the pay has been good. Also I typically get left alone and I don't mind the long hours because I like to keep busy anyway. ​ But the last couple of years things have changed. The boss hired a sales manager 5 years ago and over time things have changed. Then covid happened and things really changed. The lower staff got paid more to stay, the sales manager got to work from home to “protect him”. Then I found out he was getting paid more than me. Not…

Ethics? Ha ha.

The anti work movement is based in anarchist/socialist political theory. I've noticed alot of people who show up here showing social democratic politics, the solution isn't to add painkillers to deal with the gaping wound. The objective is to agitate for a society, ideally globally, that has it so that your ability to eat or have shelter isn't determined by whether you serve capital or not. Do not hold the delusion that you can merely reform capitalism, this cycle , where a large socialist movement emerges, successfully obtains concessions like the welfare state and the weekend, and then see these concessions slowly clawed back as worker politics gets crushed has happened multiple times and goes as far back as Marxs day with the earliest modern socialists. Edit: For some naysayers Please consult the FAQ, look at those suspiciously socialist looking mod flairs, And of coarse, major announcements by mods that…