Antiwork

Disclaimer: I'm grateful for Linkedin as a place for a lot of people to find job: myself included. At least in my country, if you have decend education and know your shit on your field, there's no chance you won't get a job… I shared an English Test of myself, and got bombarded with inteview offers for like 2 weeks. That being said… Linkedin seems to have become an joke with their facebook-like social network side. It blows my mind the workaholic culture around there. I feel like there is a constant competition of who gets the last job, which HHRR representative have the longer list of jobs, which job title have the most words on it or who recieves the bigges “wellcome onboard” gift packages. That added to daily “news” articles about millionaires that started working 16 hours a day, people in suits telling me I need to make…

This is a channel where Amazon employees, whether in tech or non tech positions, are posting their hourly pay, salaries, total compensation, benefits, and they're demographic information, to achieve transparency. It's refreshing and not something I would have expected to see in a culture like Amazon's.

Build-A-Bear accidentally paid management two quarterly bonuses this pay period. The higher ups got on an emergency conference call last night to discuss getting it back. They’ve decided to take it back from us in four installments throughout the next few weeks. I just got this email. The thought of telling my team makes me feel sick. And just for context, Build-A-Bear pays their part time managers $10/hr in states they can get away with it. There are assistant managers who don’t even make 13/hr. They never gave bonuses during COVID like some companies did. No hazard pay. Meanwhile, corporate is building a billion dollar facility that no is using because they work from home.

Employment trauma is how my husband describes my irrational fears of being disliked or fired by an employer and ending up homeless and never able to get a job in my field again. It comes from years of bad supervisors, unethical and even dangerous workplaces, and struggling to find that first job when I finished school during the Great Recession. So this job I went above and beyond to impress. Received great Evals and feedback from supervisor and coworkers. So I tried not to freak out when I knew I’d have to quit due to having a newborn. I lost sleep a couple of nights wondering how I would tell my boss, how she would hate me or scheme to not pay out my unused time or whatever. But I remembered all the positive rapport we had and thought, “quit being paranoid and just tell her. She’s a human being.…

We do hear quite often about them being sued for unpaid wages and mistreatment though…