Antiwork

I'm so sick of being told this. My husband and I have heard this numerous times in the past couple months from our managers at our jobs. Management seems to love to use this for everything from reporting bad employees to pay raises. Honestly, the system sucks. I don't trust the system and won't trust the system. I'm working with habitually lazy people who do the bare minimum and are causing my company to bleed red. The “system” has done nothing to fix it. I was forced to carry on new responsibilities in a new department with no discussion of compensation. The “system” is looking into where the department is going in order to properly compensate me which has now been 2 months. Keep in mind, I've been doing this new job since January and been asking about increased pay since March. Watch, the “system” will only work when we…

“It is a cruel jest to say to a bootless man that he should lift himself up by his own bootstraps. It is even worse to tell a man to lift himself up by his own bootstraps when somebody is standing on the boot….I had to tell him finally that nobody else in this country has lifted themselves by their own bootstraps alone, so why expect the black man to do it?” ― Martin Luther King Jr., All Labor Has Dignity

I've notice a lot more capitalist apologists lately. I don't know where these people are coming from. There also seems to be a stark “wE jUsT nEeD rEguLaTiOnS” sentiment. Fuck that, until workers completely own the means of production for the profits they produce, it's exploitation. We need a militant labor force to fight the owner class and the fascists they support. Stop shilling for corporations, executives and capitalism in general. A friendly reminder that this is a hard leftist subreddit. Conservatives, while you may hate your job, your viewpoints in general are abhorrent and you support fascism. You should live the rest of your life in shame. If you don't like that, go to r/workreform where the mods who peddle crypto can agree that we just need a few regulations while they screw you over.

As title says, in June I got screwed on my bonus. Got told when I joined it was 10-15% of annual salary. June rolls around and the bonus is at 6%. Was told our whole team took a hit on bonuses this year, despite the company doing 40% more revenue than projected, and while celebrating 2 x multi-million £ contracts I was instrumental to us winning. I asked if there was anything I personally could have done to get my full bonus? The answer was “no”. When I asked around, everyone else in the team had gotten a full bonus – except for me. So it wasn’t just the lack of bonus but the deception surrounding it. (Maybe relevant or not: I’m the only woman on my team, all the men got a full bonus). Having been with the company for a year, demonstrated my value, with the cost of…