Antiwork

My union is currently negotiating with the evil overlords (Kroger and Albertsons.) Since we have actual workers and not just union people at the table, we get more details. This was my favorite. Company points out that people want more hours/money. They have a solution! Get rid of the “limitations” of overtime. If a company has to pay you more money to work overtime, that limits the amount of overtime they can give. Get rid of extra pay and the overtime is unlimited! It's the “freedom” to work as much as you want! This is going to be fun.

It annoys me, and I skip over job apps like that because it seems like a job trying to beat around the bush instead of just admitting what they’re paying. If they actually were paying decent pay, they would say it because they would know it would draw people to work for them.

I see a lot of comments, posts, and even news headlines about billionaires not paying taxes and, while I agree with the sentiment that billionaires get away with too much, why isn’t the issue about our government mismanaging the heck out of the money it already has? Taxes are high, the government only helps itself, and politicians on both sides get richer every year. My perspective is that we have two simultaneous issues: there are too many billionaires from a stacked system of reallocated wealth AND the government sucks and wouldn’t help more people if it had more money. So, who cares about billionaires paying taxes when the money would go towards corruption anyway?

Sometimes I just to go to indeed and point out the ridiculousness of a posting, masters for only 16 an hour, competitive pay etc. I send them a message or attached a resume, it looks like one but it'll say how absolutely bonkers their rates are. I've had several job posts fix their description. So workflow is indeed, then search on ziprecruiter or glassdoor Am I wasting my time or not??

My job occasionally sends us out of town for a few days for and pays per diem as they should ($59 per day). About a month ago we went out of town, did our work quickly and we’re able to leave a day early saving the company 1200+ dollars in hotel costs. Company cut our per diem checks prior to us heading out of town and now, over a month later they are telling us that we need to reimburse the company one day of per diem pay because we finished early. I and another coworker voiced our objections and now we’re suppose to have a meeting about this. Just another example of no good deed goes unpunished. Update: Got let go from the company today for ambiguous reasons relating to the amount of upcoming work in the pipeline, I’m not the only one. Not exactly the update I was…

$11 an hour baby!! WOOOOOOO- Ah fuck, kill me.

We're owned by some big shot billionaire in another state. I found out yesterday that I'm going to be on the sorting line for 10 hours next week and it's honestly giving me nightmares. I worked hard to get away from a job almost exactly like that more than 20 years ago. And this is after giving me more responsibility when another person left last week.

I would want to empower all employees to stop assisting a customer in anyway if they become verbally abusive. No talking, no helping, just straight pivot and walk away to get a manager to throw them out. If you are on a phone, you hang up the call right away and have the manager call them back on a recorded line and ban them from what ever service you provide. If you are a manager, you must make it your duty to protect your workers and yourself over terrible attitudes from rude customers. No appeasing, no bending over backwards, no trying to message their tender egos. Just blunt and direct that their business is no longer appreciated.