Antiwork

First off, I’ve been working this job for a little over 7 years. The pay is pretty good, my wife and I have new cars and we just bought a new house. I’m just getting so sick and tired of going in everyday and having to work my ass off. My boss is always calling me and asking me to take care different things and it’s just getting to be too much. Would I be stupid to just walk off the job right now? Have 2 kids under the age of 5.

Why is the federal minimum wage still $7.25? Is it reasonable considering that the people in this country are having trouble surviving off of $15 per hour? How is he going to fix the major discrepancy between the rich and poor?

There's two primary benefits to being in a union in a non-unionised environment. The first is access to the union's legal resources, you can usually get free advice on employment matters from qualified solicitors, and in the event of an actual tribunal or court case related to your employment, you get the union's solicitors instead of whatever solicitor you can afford on your own. The second is representation at disciplinary hearings. You always have the right to bring a companion to disciplinary hearings, who can present your case for you and sum up your position, and talk to you and give you advice on how to proceed. As a union member, you get to bring a union representative to these meetings, someone who has been specifically trained by the union to deal with these hearings. In my personal experience the latter is even more powerful when a workplace is not…

I just need some points of view that are less bias than people close to me. So, I got hired at an independent insurance agency back in November. I had been working in insurance for three years. I am licensed. I am not new to the industry. I do understand that, while having an understanding of insurance is helpful when being a new hire, each agency has their own way of doing things. And you owe it upon yourself, and your team, to adapt. ​ So, I did my best to learn their way. But they basically expected perfection and no one is perfect. So of course I made mistakes. But nothing detrimental. They start every new employee as receptionist. So I pretty much took payments, did reports, made calls to late pays, took care of mail, made coffee, set appointments, that stuff. So the things I did mess up…

With inflation and wages rising, I wanted to think about how it would look if the price of a house stayed the same and we just get paid less money. I think this comparison makes it a lot easier to see how little we are getting paid, vs the dollar rising and seemingly getting paid more. The median price of a home in 1974 was around $30k. The minimum wage was $2/hr. If someone worked full time, negating income tax, it would take just over 7 years to pay off a house. Just for simplicity sake, there would be no other costs or interest on the home. The median price of a home in 2021 was around $250k. Minimum wage being $7.25. With the same math as above, it would take over 16 years to pay off. If instead of the dollar depreciating through inflation and things costing more, what…

I work for a smallish company (500 or so employees globally). The company recently won a number of big contracts and is doing well. My vacation time was listed in my offer letter, but the sick time is part of our company handbook. At the beginning of 2022 payroll sent out an email on something unrelated, but attached an updated table for sick hours based on time with the company. I went from 40 hours a year, down to 8 as I've been with the company under a year, in a few months I'll be up to 24. I've been emailing HR for the past month trying to get an answer as to why they implemented this policy, and the only response I ever got back was a copy-pasted table explaining how sick time works now. I'm kind of at a loss, I like my coworkers and my job itself,…

Finally left a terrible dead end job called Wawa. Thought it would be more dramatic but I just crossed my name off the schedule and said thanks for the last check and walked out.