Antiwork

For context, I've never had a job before (due to the pandemic, the fact I was in marching band and other factors in high school), so I was really excited to get a job at CFA starting at $10 an hour. I'm also black, which goes into my next paragraph. Now, on my fourth day, I want to leave or at least make a few complaints. Tonight, for example, my supervisor referred to me as “that other girl” which rubbed me off the wrong way as she knows my name, and I was one of the three girls there (the others she knows their names by heart). If that wasn't enough, she called an Asian customer on Friday a “Oriental Lady”, which also made me uncomfortable. I also have to work closings every single shift. Now, I don't mind closing but every shift can be detrimental to me. I'm also…

As the title says I think I might be jumping ship. I currently work as a banker for BOTW soon to be BMO and applied as a district manager for another company. So far I have 2 references that put in a good word for me which is good. I currently get paid $19.23 an hour and guaranteed my 80 hours. However the commission structure and goals is what's making me want to leave. The new job I will be getting paid somewhere between $23-$25 an hour but instead of working down the street, I will be commuting 50 minutes to the work place. It's something that I farily already know how to do. I don't know if it's worth it. I have an interview next week so hopefully it goes well! Wish me luck!

Started a new position at my company and it came with a bump in pay. Well that was about 2 months ago and the change in pay hasn't happened yet. Talked to new manager many times and got the run around so I went to his boss and he seemed to have no clue that anything was going on. So he asks me about dates and says he will get working on it. He also said not to wait 2 months (as if I was just waiting till today to ask) and then tells me that I won't get payed for the day I came over and started the job but the day they sent me the hiring letter. So about 3 weeks of doing this job but not paid for it. Edit. So my supervisor is willing to pay me the difference for the time the company won't pay…

Work is nonsingular. Work is split up in primary and secondary work. One cant without the other & a reason why technical progress is not the solution to the end of work. Primary work is the work you are actually doing. Everyone subjectively works primary. A product in any kind of industry needs a specific set of work. Lets say a car factory needs engineers, production line workers, steel industry workers etc. Without them the car wont be manufactured. All these workers need secondary work simply to be able to work. For example road transport infrastructure / public transport, food industry, clothing industry, care takers, etc. Without secondary work you cant primary work. All the secondary work is primary work in its self and produces another line of secondary work. Working basically means forcing someone else to work for you. Even if you build machines to simplify work there will…

I'm torn. I don't agree with some of his stances on issues (unrelated, not relevant to this post). I like him in the general sense as being someone with strong views some of which can be used retroactively. But recently I was made privy to a video he made where he claims to work 100hrs a week. 14hr days. The rest of the time he claims to spend time with family and friends whilst also doing carpentry and fixing up his “cottage” or whatever. When does this man eat, sleep or get time away from people/working?! Jordan Peterson is someone who a lot of (generally young men) look up to as an example of how they should live their lives. Working 100hrs a week, 14hr days. I'm torn between my enjoyment of many of some of his sentiments and my inability to agree with his promotion of this type of…

Currently my workplace is hiring salespeople. But because it’s commission-only and it takes a significant amount of time to get established in this business, we’ve seen a lot of declined job offers. And me as a peon gets to hear how sad it is that “no one wants to invest in themselves.” When has anyone actually said the words “you know what, I hate investing in myself I’d rather keep pissing my money away”? People can’t not eat for 3+ mos that’s not a thing. Anyone would choose a lot more money later than a lot less money now – that’s literally what investing is. They don’t have the option to go without an income. What are your commission horror stories?

My department has been buried in a backlog of emails from clients going back to December due to being short staffed. This past week we dug ourselves out thanks to mandatory overtime. To prevent this from happening again senior management announced that an employee cannot carry more than 10 emails over into the next day. Same staff level, same work load, same average handling time requirements…so in short,the best solution management could come up with to fix a problem is to make the problem our fault