Antiwork

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Started work at a job that required me to buy a laptop from them. Up front they gave me two options to pay for it. Option one: give them $500 down and then two payments of $250 off my paychecks. Option two is skip my first two paychecks to pay for it. Coming from a paycheck to paycheck job I told them that no option was really viable for me as I couldn't afford to do either. They said they would talk to HR to figure out a new plan and run it by me. Cut to two weeks later, I pay my bills and check my bank account to find $8 for a week. My boss claims HR was supposed to run it by me and forgot. With a 9 month old and wife to care for $8 puts me in a spot where if anything were to happen…

Wanted to hear from everyone. I’ve worked in the transportation industry for close to 6 years now. Got myself into a management role — that’s not really a management role because over the years we’ve “not rehired” for position that I’ve been taking on. I haven’t received a raise in 4 years. My current salary is 55k +bonus but the bonus is based on how much you can save through out the year. In the end I end up making an additional +40k. Which for years I didn’t think was that bad until last week when our CEO was bragging that the company— Berkshire Hathaway company — was clearing $25 MILLION PER MONTH. I have my masters and I have been looking for other positions but the other transportation companies or at least the ones I’ve been exploring all under pay their employees. Anyone experienced something similar?

I was at a job for about four months. I was unhappy because my boss who was suppose to be directly in charge of giving me work/direction/training was extremely inconsistent with his communication. There were times where he gave me tasks that were interesting/fulfilling/kept me busy and productive. Yet on the other end of the spectrum there would be times where he wouldn’t communicate with me for up to 2 weeks. Eventually I got another offer and toke it. I wanted to be busy, utilized, productive consistently. I toke a chance to leave this situation (which while I was unhappy it was stable). The environment SEEMED a lot better. People were very friendly. The work was more so like “busy work”, memorizing a lot of small details. I do my best when I understand the why behind things as it helps me to remember to do it versus just memorizing.…

Credit to u/theganjamonster from this convo Boss makes a dollar I make a dime That was a poem From a simpler time Now boss makes a thousand And gives us a cent While he's got employees Who can't pay their rent