Antiwork

What happens when everyone starts asking important financial questions? What happens when your suggestions of “buy less coffee” and “don't put avocado on toast” are figured out?? What happens to you when people no longer want your skeevy practices in their town? What are you going to do? Fire everyone? Not hire anyone??? Are you going to buy a bunch of automatons? …They'll break down with no one to fix them if no one can afford to live anymore – let alone afford whatever services your robot fleet provides. And even when they're operational, they'll serve as a reminder of who you really are and what you really want. What are you going to do when the people who don't even need jobs feel the greed? What happens when they stop buying your stock? No matter how low the price – because it's literally killing your customer base, as well…

Do you guys know, the outsourcing plague was started by USofA criminal corporates and the entire world (dunno about Europe) corp lords lapped it up. Those decent corps of third world countries followed the path for no sane reason, firing staff in masses and the same people joined from third company on contract for half the pay and no benefits. Then came cancelling annual events, programs, parties, development courses, hitting the head of career growth programs internally decimating the final step of progress. As if that wasn't enough profit growth fetish, they moved towards not hiring replacements and loading up the pile on existing staff. It didn't stop there. Pandemic pulled out another weapon of reducing salaries of existing staff knowing well there were no hiring in the market due to lockdowns. Meanwhile inducing the advancement of technology in past 2 decades naturally propelled the profits of the corps with…

So I work at a business where approx 95% of the work could be done from home. My job absolutely must be done in person, but pretty much the entire rest of the building can be done from home. The excuse that my company has given for not letting their employees work remotely, is that our phone systems cannot be worked remotely and they're not looking to change them now, so for the time being at least, everyone needs to be in the building. Well I figured that they would at least give us more sick days to take, considering the world is currently in a global pandemic and people are literally dying. But no. We still only get 3 paid sick days, with no ability to work from home.. Well, except for the managers apparently. Because today, my manager is currently working from home because he didn't feel well,…

I was hired as a supervisor at a popular chicken fast food chain. We are understaffed and there’s usually a lot of call outs every day. My psychiatrist could only fit me in for an emergency consultation for when my shift starts (10-8) I asked around, asked if someone could come in two hours early and I will do the rest of the shift, got it approved, made it clear it was an emergency. On my way home, after getting it approved and worked out, I got a call saying “it wasn’t a valid excuse” and I must come in at 10 the next day. Long story short, I’m not coming in at all. If they won’t let me prioritize my mental health then I feel as if I should quite. Is this the right call?

I work in the insurance industry and I’ve been with my current company 6 years. I have recently been dealing with some abusive behavior from my manager and despite taking it to regional management 3 times, nothing has changed. I started looking for work after an especially unprofessional conflict with my manager and found out that I’m in high demand. I applied for 3 jobs and got 3 offers, all paying at least $15k more and all guaranteeing remote work permanently. (I’m currently scheduled to go back into the office in a few weeks). So I accepted the best offer and wrote my letter of resignation, it went to my regional VP who I technically report to but my day-to-day manager who started this all was cc’d also. I put together a very standard but very kind resignation letter advising that I appreciate the time and experience gained while I’ve…

Hello everyone, I been looking a work from home job because I have 3 kids and daycare is super expensive. I havent been lucky yet, but I had an interview And everything was going great, until we discussed the payment. Its a 1099 job and they want to pay me $500 dollars every 2 weeks, so 1000 per month. I told her that doesnt even cover half of my rent and she said that because allI do is stay at home with kids I should just take it and be happy with it! Should I take the job? I live in a very expensive state, and that wage is not even legal here, but because its a 1099 they can get away with it. What should I do?

I recently applied to a few jobs on Indeed (UK). On the site, employees and recruitment agencies can ask applications optional questions – this one had four. One of the questions asked me to provide my current salary, and salary expectations. I did not provide my current salary but did include my minimum salary expectations. Five days later I received a message from the company thanking me for my application. “In order to progress with your applciation, please can you let us know your current salary and salary expectations per year?” My response: “My current salary expectations are £X (the same number I had previously provided them) and above. With respect, I will not be sharing my current salary”. Having read stories online, from this sub-reddit and from my experience in finding jobs in the past, I know that revealing my current salary weakens my ability to negotiate my wage,…

As a kid from a working class family, I asked how to get ahead in this world. You have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps, be educated they said. So instead of being a cheerleader I read every book I could. When I graduated high school I asked how to get ahead. Go to college they said. So I joined the Army because they said they’d pay when my parents would not. When I left the Army I asked how to get ahead. Get a 4 year degree, that is so much better than a trade school they said. So I graduated cum laude with a B.A. When my first job after college paid me $10 an hour for a job in my field at a newspaper I asked how to get ahead. Get a better job, they said. So I landed a federally funded job with good benefits.…