Antiwork

I'm 28 female and I work as a property manager for about $21/hour. Student housing so extremely busy especially for May & September. I've been doing so many showings that my boss hired a showing agent to help me out (52 male). He gets commission instead. I scheduled 12 showings for yesterday. He took half to help. Out of his 3 of those people sent me applications. I now have to do all of the lease/documents/move ins/ etc. He gets half a month's rent for each room just for showing them which works out to be about $1400 for his one hour of work. 4 of my showings sent in applications. I get my hourly rate of $21. My boss says this is just how it goes because I'm on salary and he isn't. This is supposed to be the deal every time so I've now refused to do any…

Is it even allowed to force employees to take their 30 minutes break even though their shift is only 3 hours?? my employer still makes me take a 30 even though he knows i’m only gonna work 3 hours since he sends me home early. he forces me to take a 30 even when i say no. i even told him im not working past 5 hours so why do i need to take a break? he just says we all have to take 30s now due to lack of profit. is this normal?? or allowed??

First idea I had was to get the cheapest phone I could find, install some kind of app on it to make it vibrate every now and then, and place my mouse on it. Any of you wonderful people have better ideas?

I live/work in a very expensive area. On average, studios can go for almost 3000 a month, and those aren’t even the fancy ones. Because of the expensive housing, my job offers housing to employees. The rentals and the land are owned by my employer. Some of the rentals are pretty nice, and cheap compared to what the local private market would rent those units as. Unsurprisingly, those nice rentals are occupied by the higher ups. The worse rentals are dormitory type situations where people in their 30s share bedrooms and bathrooms with relative strangers. With housing costs going up, I believe that employee housing is going to be more common place, here are some things that you should take note of before you opt in- You are less likely to report problems to maintenance. All of the rentals need some type of work done to them. Personally, my water…

Generally upset and confused on how to life. I put myself through college on minimum wage/tipping jobs. It was the hardest thing I’ve ever done, working 3 jobs at one point going to school full time and paying my own tuition. Graduated at the top of my class, no family support, got academic awards, I killed it,but it legit killed me. I want to go to grad school because I’m passionate about learning, but know it’s not made for people like me who support myself and will need to get a job on top of grad school. Plus, grad school = no livable wage or workers rights pretty much. Any advice from people who chose to go or not go to grad school? Im hoping for a environmental science or biology job/degree because….the earth is dying, and I could find a program that would pay for most of it. But…

As a finnish person I will never understand anti-union arguments. The culture of workers unionizing is so deep in our bones that it just feels weird when someone is against it. It gives voice to those in objectively worse negotiating position than their employer, it gives support when there is need to fight for your rights as an employee, it gives sense of community and it protects against tyranny from the side of the employer. Let's just be straight about it employees can't be equal in negotiations when compared to their employer. They need the much bigger voice and wider shoulders of the union to level the playing field. I have posted about this before, but I just drank whiskey and came up with more things that I wanted to say about it so here you have my outsiders perspective that probably isn't worth shit outside of Finland .