Antiwork

Corporate America and its accountants view salaries payable to its employees/workers as a liability. Workers are a liability- NOT an asset. (The bourgeoisie, aka those who own all means of production and most of societies wealth, loves to say we are; but thats not what the executive staff & shareholders think). Workers comp is a liability. ANYTHING that has to do with revenue leaving the companies hands and into yours, is an expense, and ultimately hurts net income for the company. HR and middle management exists to manage and reduce the liabilities. Everything ranging from health & wellness to diversity & inclusion, are all methods to reduce a potential lawsuit against the company and a leak of cash. You are a liability and you are expendable. You either produce more than you are worth or you will get replaced. In the meantime, executive staff and leaders of company operations will…

I work at one of those orange apron DIY stores, I overheard a few of the managers discussing the bosses pay in their office, I overheard it from the break room as they seemed disgruntled. Turns out the guy makes almost 70k a year. He comes in for maybe 4 hours at a time, and always early in the morning so he misses peak business hours and gets the rest of his day off. Genuinely not a very nice man, drags his staff through the shit. He doesn't understand why no one respects him and why we have such a high turnover of staff. When he gets asked questions he just doesn't know the answers to them because he's never on the shop floor to learn them. Honestly sack that man and spread that money across your staff. We have a stupid system where you get a “note” everytime you're…

Had my last day yesterday so I can finally get this all off my chest. Fuck this company. It doesn't matter how long you work there, you will not get a raise. I was making $15 an hour but I had to not only sell glasses, I had to know how to read prescriptions, know if certain prescriptions would work on a person and guide them to glasses that fit, and take eye measurements/do prescription checks. They expect you to know so much and you can't even get tipped for it The average optician in my state makes $28 an hour and the opticians I worked with made $18. This obviously led to being short staffed and overworking the opticians we did have until they quit. They don't do commissions so no matter how much you sell, you won't see any compensation for it, but you will be reprimanded for…

I’m not American and I acknowledge a lot of the issues I see posted here are obvs unique to the USA. But I wanted to drop by and say how much I appreciate this sub. I prob don’t agree with much of your politics, but most of what I see is just people being tired of being taken advantage of by people in a stronger negotiating position. I’ve worked for others before, and i have staff of my own now. No matter your opinion on socialism or capitalism or whatever, there’s simply no “ism” that should justify one human thinking it’s ok to treat another human like shit just because they can, whether that means underpaying, bullying them into working unreasonable hours or providing terrible conditions. I respect what you’re all posting, (except the obvs fakes) and have def got a few harrowing tales of my own of horrible bosses…

Any lawyers out there that could give some advice for a particularly tedious situation? Dm me for more info. Regarding an employer who cost me a job (intentionally via non compete cease and desist) and is now trying to prevent me from obtaining unemployment benefits

An Antiwork podcast would be nice to listen to while I serve my boomer masters.