Antiwork

I'm in the middle of an argument with a rich white 50-sonething lawyer I know and he's like “but remote work comes at the cost of corporate culture” and I'm trying to explain to him that on top of every other benefit of remote work, corporate culture sucks for pretty much everyone except those at the tippy top, from hiring, to sexual harassment, to pay, to microaggressions, etc. Pretty much every aspect. Can you help me find some articles to send to him? If I can get the info through his thick skull he'll adjust his opinion it just takes my pounding a metric fuckton of data into his head.

Is to unionize. Can't sign your union card virtually, can organize better in person. I bet they hate the idea of unionization more than they hate their losses in poor property investments.

I went to work today hoping I'd be okay enough to work but I work at Starbucks in a hospital meaning we serve patients and hospital staff coffee. I'd been coughing all weekend and didn't want to call out because last time I tried calling out for being sick my manager grilled me and told me I got sick more than most people (I had been throwing up all night). So I tried coming in today and when I got to work I was overheating and coughing which are both symptoms of covid so I texted my manager because she wasn't in yet “Hey I should probably go get tested if I have covid symptoms” to which she made me stay until my other coworkers lunch despite having enough people to cover her lunch. When my manager came in like 2 hours after I expressed I felt sick she got…

I’m an electrician and I’ve been working with this company for the past few months, when I was speaking with my (soon to be former) employer over the phone, we agreed on $18/hr. Fast forward to this past week when I received my check which included 2 hours of overtime and I noticed that it didn’t align with $18/hr. So I check all my paystubs and sure enough, I was being paid $16/hr for the entirety of my employment with this company. Now, i mentioned this to my employer today, and not only did he open the conversation with him essentially laying me off, but then simultaneously telling me that he was willing to provide me a severance package as a form of back pay for the time that I had been underpaid, I accepted it and told him that I didn’t mind finishing the week since the site I…