Antiwork

Let's gather anecdotal evidence of jobs, workplaces and people we've encountered where we've questioned the point of the work being done.

I’m in Kentucky, USA, which is an “at-will” state, as well as a 1-party consent-record state. To clarify, this is an entry-level hourly restaurant job, but I’d still like to fight Corporate rather than just move on. When I first started, I worked morning shifts with another employee in my department (bakery), and my schedule has since been changed to place me on a mid-shift most of the time, with one closing shift per week. The mid-shifts I was told my responsibility was to complete a preparation list as well as maintain that enough bread dough was mixed, proofed, and cut. Additionally, the hour between the morning shift employee leaving and the night shift employee coming in, I am to provide bread directly to the servers (this is what the other employees do while I prep, both morning and evening). It’s worth noting my official job title and description says…

Started a new job at a burger restaurant- the first time I haven’t been in semi-fine dining. What they told me: it’s $15/hr PLUS tips! What I found out my second week: it’s $10/hr, and we take $5 out of your tips each hour to pay you. This is reported as paying you $15/hr. What they told me: Some shifts, it’s just you and a manager on the floor, so you don’t have to split your tips with another server/runner etc.! What I found out my second week: the owner doesn’t want to pay managers a salary, so he puts them on the tip pool; I don’t have to share my tips with bussers or runners, but I will have to give the manager 50% What they just flat out didn’t mention: They take the credit card authorization fee out of my pay. What they DO tell me: people just…