Antiwork

To give an overall background, I work for a medical company. A multi billion dollar medical device company. Privately owned by one person. Shit wages, like they recently raised the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but before that they were paying people 12, 11, even 10 an hour. So they raised the minimum to $15 an hour, but basically froze raises. They brag every chance they get about how they are becoming an xx billion dollar company by this year, how good we are doing, but pay us shit. Lots of unhappy people in the company, they are hemorrhaging workers like no other. Chick-Fil-A will pay you the same amount they will pay a machine operator with 5 years experience. I know because, well read further. Recently, as one of their tactics to keep people, they sent out an email containing a spreadsheet, that would tell you your “ACTUAL”…

I work for a startup company. I was hired to build out an entire department within about six months. To keep up with sales, I need about six people on my team. Back in November, I got approval for my first hire. It took me about two months to interview and I found the perfect candidate. I put him through about three rounds of interviews to be sure he fit in with other departments he’d be working with. I was excited to offer him the job last week and gave him both a formal call to present my offer and also sent him an email in writing, to which he accepted. When I told our CFO to send out a formalized job offer, he ghosted me for a week after multiple follow-ups. Next, less than a week before this person was supposed to start out CEO reached out to tell…

Fuck you Kevin, you are an incompetent nincompoop.

Your boss calls you, they say they have hired a new employee. You will train them on everything they need to do, then do that work for them while they sit there on their phone. You will not get paid more. You will not get more hours and if you go over your allotted hours you will not get paid for it but if you don't do all the work you will get a verbal then a write up if it comes to it. How would you describe your boss when someone asks?

The title is basically all you need to know, but here's a post I made a few days ago as well: https://np.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/sq8w6a/my_plant_manager_asked_me_in_general_conversation/ Basically, the plant manager (top dog in our facility) asked me how much it would take to take me away from them. I just really need help understanding how to approach the situation, maybe how to phrase my questions and concerns, etc. Everyone in the other thread said I need to go for it, ask for more money. I don't have a degree. That is my primary concern with asking for more money. But I do have some skills, as well as the ability to learn to do whatever needs to be done. Plus, a year and a half in, and apparently they're at least fairly content with what I've done so far. So I'm guessing they're cool with keeping me in this role? I'm just a bit…

My job is Quality Control. I work for a contractor approving applications for rental assistance. There are Eligibility Specialists who go through the application and make sure everything is there and all information must match the documents provided. My job is to check their work. I am a perfectionist. This job is meant for me because I'm a rule follower. I even question the rules to make sure I'm 100% doing the right thing. However, it's also my job to approve the files for payment. It feels good when I approve them for payment because it means people are getting their rent paid. We have goals that a certain number have to go to payment. I'm not making that goal. The reason I'm not making that goal is because they changed the forms so now when there are errors we can't fix them ourselves. Every application with errors has to…

I've never been apart of this sub but I thought you all would appreciate this story. My FIL is a typical old school conservative, “pull yourself up by the bootstraps” type. He joined the Marine Corps at 18 years old, served for 5 years, then got a job at a paper mill where he has worked for the past 28 years. Here's what his job is like at the mill. He commutes 1.5 hours each way to get to work everyday. He works 8 hour shifts and typically works 6 days a week unless he uses vacation time. Everyone works a rotation between 1st, 2nd, and 3rd shift that rotates every two weeks. If your replacement doesn't show up for their shift, you are required to stay on until they find someone to come in or until the shift is complete. Yes, that means staying at work for 16 hours.…

I own a few very small businesses in a very small Nevada town. They are profitable. I want to turn them into worker co-ops (or one co-op?). I only have 2 people working with me at the moment. Trying to find a third and possibly fourth but it's hard. We're like a family and I don't want the fuck up the dynamic. Anyway, I digress. I'm a bit of an anarchist at heart – and let's just say I haven't exactly dotted all my t's and crossed all my i's. I could legit lose everything (due to not following the rules. like at all) – and I've never cared about that. But now I have a few people that I feel like I should provide for. I pay ok- 20 plus an hour for non tipped position and 13/hr for a bartending position that usually banks at least 50 an…

I'm fuming about this. I have a stressful job and was just informed that my workload would substantially be increasing, with no raises or even cost of living adjustments. I'll even have to do sales- without commission! Anyone else experience this? What did you do?