Antiwork

Recently just put in my two weeks at my current company. I work sales at a small tech firm. Originally took this job a little over a year ago with the promise of making some pretty big money. I did really well this last year and exceeded my quota. My total comp plan for this job was $60,000 base salary and then 75,000 commission if I hit quota so 135,000 total comp. During the entire year I was unable to see how much money I was making off commission, even though I asked multiple times. Finally they provided it starting in January, but at that time they changed my comp plan which I never signed. They told me that the changes were benefit me, but that's not the case at all. I got my W-2 back and saw that I made less than 80 grand last year. I was tracking…

We compensate teachers poorly and expect them to teach out of sheer “passion”. Why do we pay police better? Surely they should be doing it for a noble cause and not the money? (Teachers should be paid better, end of story.)

Found out a supervisor was making $11/hour and showed them their job being advertised for $14 – $18/hour. I also refused to be supervisor myself unless I was making $15 at least. Suddenly I’m removed from the schedule and need a meeting at the admin office: “It’s not working out, we’ve had several complaints of you discussing salary.” wow, illegal but ok… went back to my site to pick up a few things and gossip with my old coworkers from different departments, only to find my replacement flustered at being left to do the job alone when she needs to leave for her other job two hours before shift ends. It’s a daycare so for obvious reasons we should never be alone with all the kids at once, yet there she was. I had refused to do the same solo shift without a promotion and raise so it all suddenly…

So, this isn't a big deal but something I just found personally very funny and caused my bosses wife (the companies HR person) to have a red face. So my company is a very small company, about 10 people, and are currently hiring for a marketing role among a few other roles. The role they have open isn't the best paid, and doesn't offer even hybrid remote (like my job does). The company had only interviewed 2 people for the role due to low interest and extended an offer to one woman who accepted on the spot after a 4 hour interview (I know, madness). Then last Monday the person emailed my bosses wife to say they had accepted a counter offer for more money in their current position. Bosses wife came out to the office to tell boss and the rest of us that the person had changed their…