Antiwork

This was about a year ago but I'm super proud of this moment. I was a hotel housekeeper and laundry attendant. For two years I worked for this shit hole. When I started it was tolerable. 5 months in they hired a new manager and housekeeping department fell apart. She was so rude. Threatened write ups for things out of our control. Super passive aggressive and nit picky too. Within 2 months, over half of the longtime staff left. She was relocated after a year and a half but the department was ruined. The extra work was piled onto the rest of us. Me being an overachiever I bent over backwards. Showed up an hour earlier than everyone and left an hour after, including the manager. Did this to catch up on laundry which was a two person job but i did it solo. I did it so that the…

So Id never heard of this before my previous company, but the fact that others have even heard of it tells me this is an actual thing across the US workforce/industry/etc. Like so many other companies, this company distributes payroll every 2 weeks (every other friday). Therefore, the pay periods are of course, every 2 wks. So here's the breakdown. Of course, a 2 wk pay period consists of 10 business days. Generally it's expected that you work 8 hrs/day 5 days/wk for a total of 40 hrs/wk. Standard stuff. Now ppl at that company are given the choice of whether or not they wanna opt into this 9/80 schedule. So the 9/80 comes in as having those employees work NINE hours per day on Monday through Thursday. The first friday of the pay period is a standard 8 hour day. Now that you've spent 2 wks working four 9hr…

Our district is going to a new pay schedule. Unfortunately there is an extra month after this one ends and the new one begins. Their solution? Take 20% out of our paychecks until then to cover the extra month. Every time I asked any higher ups about it they all told me “it's the same amount of pay I the end” even though it's stretched over an extra month. I'll be devastated losing 20% without a months notice, I barely make a living wage as it is. This is what we get for working through the pandemic to take care of everyone's children so the whole country can work on our backs. Not hazard pay. A 20% pay cut. We constantly think they can't lower the bar any more but here we are.

Yesterday I received a firmly written text from my boss instructing me to “not discuss wages in the workplace, it is highly taboo and has made coworkers feel uncomfortable and to “not stir the pot.” Mind you it is a worker's right to discuss wages and further I was saying I was making more at this place compared to a competitor. Today they texted me saying they were really short staffed and wanted me to come in… Didn't even reply. S

So I filled out an application for Six Flags to see if I could just get a job there. WEll, I'm an hour away from them. That's not enough money to drive there. I told them where I live and they are like, “Oh ok, so then what about the warehouse or security?” I didn't know this was an option. Each times they've called them, I told them that $11/h is WAY too low for the average person. Even when I talked to one manager there he said that they won't likely hire for more than $11/h. Sorry, bur that's basically not a livable wage for me right now. Not where I live or how I live. I would love to work for Six Flags but they won't give me enough. These corporations make almost 4B a year and they have 29k employees and you're telling me that you can't…