Antiwork

Advice needed: I work for an AH owner of a very small company. I'm in salary negotiations with a company I've been trying to get hired on for six months. I'm not sure how to proceed with leaving because of a few issues. I have a vacation planned for the end of the month. If I give my notice before vacation, I'm afraid AH won't allow me to go as planned. If I don't go, I forfeit my vacation days and pay when I leave. Assuming I want to start at the new company shortly after I return from vacation, how do I handle this? It isn't necessary to give a full two weeks notice; here one week is acceptable. I'm afraid I can't see the forest for the trees here.

Last job I did through them I was released because they hired someone else for the role. But I'm marked as being fired for misconduct and now “Do Not Use” in their system. Apparently not being able to focus for eight hours a day doing nothing but watching someone do their job for “training” is the same as me stealing shit! At least I have another job interview today. But that job keeps screwing me over as I left a Target position for the job and they let me go after three days. And now I'm blacklisted in an entire staffing agency!

Every time we see my wife’s grandparents they ask the same two questions: When are we having kids? When are we buying a house? We are in our middle 20s and we make a decent salary but with the cost of rent, food and insurance no one is able to afford a house that went from 350k to 500k in two years. In regards to kids, We agree we are not bringing kids to this world until things get better and if they just keep getting worse well then I’ll be doing them a favor not bringing them to this fucked shit. Boomers don’t seem to understand that things have changed and it’s 10x harder than when they were in their 20s. For instance, they didn’t go to college and are owners of a small car dealer, own 2 houses paid and drive new cars. Will love to see them…

I'm currently working at an office job and have been for ~2.5 years. I've moved from being a third-party contractor to temporary employee (to skirt the contractor time limits, got a raise and salary instead of hourly). Now the company is finally looking to make me a full time employee but I'm having difficulty figuring out what tools I can use to determine my worth because I'm just about positive I'm being paid at least 10-15k less than just the average for the title I'll have (basic googling got me this). Problem is it seems like everywhere I look, the range is wildly different so I'd like to know what you folks used or use to determine your own worth?

I was wondering about it since the news recently brought up a new covid Omicron variant, does this mean the companies will have to bring back the paid two weeks sick? Despite that this could be spreading more further and we don't have a booster for young people out there. What do you think?