Antiwork

So I am a college graduate who recently got accepted as an analyst into a trade company. I'm not a US-citizen, I do posses temporary legal work authorization but I need company sponsorship for a special type of work visa called H1b to further my legal work status. I was officially extended an offer last week, and a few days ago I sent an email to their VP, who was my last round interviewer and who approved my candidacy, to ask if the company is willing to sponsor my work visa. I explained in detail my current situation and how the work visa thing works. I didn't receive a response for two days till yesterday morning, a short email sprung into my iphone notification reading “your job offer was rescinded because you are unable to work legally in the US.” I was outraged since that couldn't be further from the…

I’m looking to leave my job with less than a 2 week notice but not sure if it could hurt me in the long run. Anybody quit in an abrupt way and regret it later?

Hello everyone, I just accepted a job as an attorney at a firm that specializes in representing unions. My background with unions is very minimal and I'm looking for reading suggestions to get me up to date on the history of unions and what's going on today. I graduated law school last year and started working at an “everything firm” after taking the bar exam, wasn't happy there and am hoping this work will have me feeling more fulfilled with the work I'm doing. At the job I just put in my two weeks for, I did a combination of criminal defense, real estate law, family law, contract law, business law, and tort law — all my clients were either shady characters or rich assholes.

My husband and I work for the same company. He earns monthly commission, and I work assisting the single accountant the company has. It occurred to me that he did not receive and documents for his commission, no 1099 or anything. When I mentioned this to the accountant, she said she hadn’t even thought about it and basically shrugged her shoulders and said someone will take care of it but that it would open a can of worms she didn’t want to get yelled at for. It’s March and we have no idea how to file our taxes for various reasons this company has put us through, including this. We mentioned that they need to legally provide us with a 1099 by January 31st and we were told that nobody adheres to that law. I keep pushing for more info and trying to get a 1099 or something but I’ve…

Like many others, I lost my job late 2020 due to covid. It took about 5 months to find a job wherein I drew unemployment until March of 2021. I tried to file my taxes and I have come to learn I still owe taxes on my unemployment income. I know for 2020 taxes, the first $10k were tax-deductible, but I see no such plan for 2021. Is there any relief on the horizon or am I (and I can only assume so many others!) stuck with this? So frustrating!

I gave my verbal 2 weeks notice to my boss. Told her my last day would be 2 weeks from today. With that, she told me I am no longer needed here and that today is my last day. Did I just get fired? Edit: I emailed her a formal resignation letter after this conversation. Will I get paid for the next two weeks?

I'm pretty well off. I work in tech and have been WFH during the last two years. I'm fortunate. But I have a bit of bias and don't know a lot of the realities of what people are getting. A member of my family said one of his in laws or an aquantence (don't remember, unimportant) stopped working during the pandemic and is getting paid to not work. This seems like it would be unemployment benefits and not the brief (three?) payments of like $600 or something that most Americans got. Anyway. What's the reality? Does the government pay for some set of people long term? Is it unemployment insurance only that would do that? It was hard challenging my family member because he wasn't the one who could show receipts. And since it was a blind fighting the blind kind of argument I just let it go. From what…

So this week while I was having my lunch. My manager gave me a key. I was confused and said “what's this for?' she replied with “it's to open the store when we open Saturdays.”. Which then she walked away. During my lunch I was thinking of it and I realized it's adding a lot of responsibility to my already loaded workload as I'm a safety representative for the first time and didn't really want this position of a key holder. Not only do I have to walk to work but my walk to work is 30 minutes, the weather conditions don't really help here in Canada . so I was thinking of a wage increase to compensate. I finished my lunch and she just so happen to walk about on my way out and I asked her “so does this come with a wage increase of any sort?”. Which…

I really do not understand. Somehow we in the US are unable to see the big picture. Our government and media outlets say better than I will but we have been told that people being paid in dirt is not only acceptable but necessary, when it isn't at all.