Antiwork

So, I've been a blue collar worker all my life. I'm starting a new job next week where I'm going to be salaried/exempt. Kinda think that means I'll be considered “white collar”… it's fucking weird. Job itself wouldn't seem to necessitate that designation. When I went through the interview process, I gave my pay range as I typically would, in hourly wage ranges. The interview felt blue collar and the descriptions fit. I'm the guy that always tries to work my wage. I'm currently a supervisor (in name only) in charge of a small custodial staff (actively hate the job). I've tried to unionize or at least heavily suggest unionizing. I bitch and grouse about management being insanely stupid. I tell my coworkers to take their sick days if they need to, I don't need to know their business, unlike how my boss seems to want excruciating details. I treat…

He worked as a regional technology manager in IT. A lot of people in his company were as, but only him and I think two others so far in the IT department were. He was with the company for a bit over a year now, working remote with some business travel. This was his dream job, so he's a bit shattered. He was offered a severence package for three weeks with holiday payout. Benefits would be kept at his own expense. He's wondering how to go about negotiating severence, but I'm thinking he'd need an attorney for that. Should he wait on applying for unemployment? I can't be much help to him as I've never been in the situation and don't work in IT, so this is all I've really got. We're in PA.

Task rate / flag / piece rate workers are required to be paid at least minimum wage x clock hours + applicable overtime if their task rate amount is lower. How does a corporate press release (publicly traded company) stating the company’s new nationwide minimum wage for hourly workers is 15$/hr affect this? Could I hold them to the $15/hr minimum wage or will I be stuck with $7.25? I’ve seen FLSA state that when there is overlap with minimum pay like state minimum is higher than federal that employer must pay the most generous minimum wage. Is it a stretch to attempt holding them to their public press release figure if my state only adopts 7.25? Since now they are not letting us clock out early when there is no work. My piece rate is $26.50. It’s common in this industry when they cannot fire for-cause to protect themselves…

The U.S.A is run by a bunch of self serving career politicians that are so far removed from everyday life they can't possibly give a shit about the common person. Not to mention that those same politicians routinely cut funding to our education system so nobody is actually smart enough to realize the bullshit they pull and that the media, particularly hollywood isn't actually the truth.

Honestly I just need to complain and maybe have some people tell me to suck it up and it’s not so bad. I work in a small office environment and 3 of my colleagues are the loudest women on planet earth. Not really their fault, I suppose, they are just very loud talkers and they gab a lot during the day. One of them is my boss. Our agency allows people to wfh 2 days a week and i have been asking to do this for 6 months now and every time I am told no. This annoys me and i get kind of a bad attitude and I also to keep my work and home life very separate, so I don’t often join in the conversations with my coworkers. However, my office is right in front of the only copy machine/scanner in the office. So people are almost always…

I mean I will, because rent and pets. But I will be taking this opportunity to freelance and do my own thing. Hopefully I can stay “unemployed” and free. I'm tired of applying to jobs I know I will hate, and ones that I love will reach out only to say they love my resume, but here's an assessment and we'll reject you afterwards. I want to work from home. I don't want to answer phone calls. I don't want to do customer service. I want more than minimum wage, heck I want more than $20/hr. Fuck this. Unrelated though, how about we all create remote agencies and just hire each other? Work together online and partner with each other. I'm sure we all have different skill sets to contribute. Edit: starting online businesses/services this way could be a great start at worker cooperatives being normalized

How hard do you work/how difficult is your job? (1 = a few hours of easy work, 10 = many hours of extremely demanding labor) How financially secure are you? (1= I face constant hardship from lack of funds, 10 = I make more money than I need to meet all my wants and needs)