Antiwork

This might not fit perfectly with the sub but I wanted to post about my experience working for just 1 care home, it's a lot but it's still not anywhere near everything. I was on an early shift (7am-2pm) and the manager was complaining because she didn't do the rota correctly, but hid away in the office till after we left so we couldn't see the new rota until she had gone home (so we couldn't complain about the worst shifts possible, or illegal shifts) so at 13:50 I said to everyone on my shift let's leave at 2 on the dot and get out asap as they're short staffed and make her do the shift, I ran straight to the pub on the corner and waited for my call, she was fucking furious about everyone already ignoring/being too busy and when I told her “I can't, I'm in the…

To my fellow Cooks, Kitchen Managers, Chefs and everyone: I am irritated by the lack of respect for the field. It doesn't matter if you are burning yourself catching those fry baskets, or hurting your arms making 100s of dough balls or scones. I am so tired of trying to fight with the public on how we don't deserve a living wage. I have 15 years of experience and have been EVERYTHING in a restaurant. I have worked for some of the most famous Restaurants in Sacramento. And I am one of many. And we just asked that we are treated like the trade we are. I had to learn chemistry, Wine pairing with meats, the metric system and the arm strength to make the perfect biscuits (grating 10lbs of frozen butter by hand will do that). It's not easy, and most of us do it out of the love…

At what point in time is it acceptable to ask for a raise? I started at 15.50 in December but man do I want/need more money. I'm making the most money I've ever made but I'm still living check to check. I get have difference at 16.50 but I still wish I could be paid more.

My last boss was a hawk when it came to watching what I was doing despite being there for two years; he always came to work late for 6 months straight, and then gave me a lot of shit for defending myself whenever I didn’t comply to his word/make conversation with him like I did with everyone else. I really wanted this new job to work out but sometimes, it feels like I will always be destined to work for bosses who don’t trust me, or don’t think I’m hardworking (which is really insulting). The new job had a staff that have been working with each other for YEARS, so it’s obvious that they know each other well enough. I wasn’t demanding trust; I was simply wanting to be left alone to do my tasks so I can actually do them in a timely manner. I kept getting interrupted while…

Children employed in 1760 worked 11 hour days at roughly 0.60c a day. Adjusted for inflation, that's $22.20 a day, or $2.01 an hour. Now I could be wrong, as I'm not American, but don't your restaurant staff only get paid like $2.13 as a base pay? This is tragic.

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…