Antiwork

Probably not the typical case of having a shitty manager (and boss), but I'm a minor (16) working on the books, and my manager recently called me in (on a day which I'm on-call for granted), had my dad drive me there. Which both my boss and manager are aware that I'm a minor, I do not have independent transportation, and live all the way on the other side of the city. I took the job because it's close to where I go to school, so I figured it'd be painless. After working non-stop for the next 40 or so minutes that they knew were insanely busy, my co-worker taps me and says “[manager] asked for you at [second location], need a cashier there.” To which I'm completely flabbergasted about because again, I JUST got to the first location, so why didn't they just ask for me over there in…

Found this interesting analysis from 2007 (1). It primarily looks at low wage earners with families which is interesting because abortion bans will increase the number of these workers (2). The conclusion seems to me to push the policy maker in favor of the employer. We have the worst healthcare system of high-income nations (3). Increase violence due to increase in inequality in education, healthcare, and wealth (4). Inequality driven by political choices (5). A stressful world leading to radicalization (6). We face a future of increased inequality due to advancements in tech (7). A future where a good portion of US will be unlivable (8). This is just some of what choosing the employer over the people has gotten us. This is the conclusion from the analysis. A substantial share of jobs in the U.S. economy pays low wages. As this paper shows, almost a quarter of all working…

As short as possible, because time is important for you too: I need to start preparing for a new career (Bachelor of International and Diplomatic Sciences) and this may also include a new Bachelor if required by the change. I want to spend less of my personal time on work while still contributing as much as possible to my family's well-being. In this case, I would like to find out which jobs and careers – and which branches of them – which normally offer good remuneration (medic, lawyer, notary, programmer – Let's say I'm aware about this one) can also be done part-time (20-30 working hours per week). Thank you so much!

I work for a large “cool” tech company (blue cloud logo) and we missed payroll orpaid partial wages for mutiple teams Friday and nobody got in touch with us to explain. We figured it out ourselves… Apparently it's a “company wide” issue. My colleagues reached out to HR who told them it was a system error and they're figuring it out. They're not telling us when it's going to be fixed… Not the first suss move from the best place to work, and I'm super annoyed. What would you think?

Has anyone else watched the series on Hulu, The men who built America? Back in the mid /late 1800s, Rockefeller, Carnegie and JP Morgan owned all the wealth, essentially disproving Capitalism. Yet, 150 years later, we are in the exact same place.

You’re supposed to act like you want the job. But not like you really want the job. But not like you’re indifferent about getting the job. But not like you’re just pretending not to want the job. But not like you’re just pretending to not pretend not to want the job. Jesus. Listen, hiring managers and HR: Yes, we want the stupid job! If we didn’t, we wouldn’t have made time to talk with you. Please just give it to us, as long as we’re polite, because we can’t guess whether we come across as uninterested or desperate. S;$48dj!!!!

Note that I don't live in the US I'm a salaried worker but it's a low salary. At my job I have been working the second longest out of everyone and the only one who has been there longer than me is planning on leaving (not for problems with the work, he just has bigger aspirations in a different sector entirely). I was quasi-promoted in the sense that they made a new position for me, but outside the usual promotion track to managerial level and without a pay raise. It came with far better hours (in theory) and more responsibilities. What this implies to me is that I may now be out of the line of promotion because I'm on a new deadend track. But that's not the real problem here. the problem is the responsibilities. I have no problem with these responsibilities, but I do have a problem with…

I've just been miserable lately. Every career that actually interests me is just a recipe for rejection. It was literally easier for me to get into grad school than it's been to get into literally anything other than food service. I'm just trying to pay my bills and not be miserable.

a few of my main coworkers and I worked late one night prepping for a sale (two of whom just came in to help out bc they're cool, totally unpaid). Because we were altogether, we decided to go out for dinner and carpool, leaving a car in the lot while we were out. we got back to the parking lot at about midnight and one of the guys thought “I have a long drive back and I have to take a piss, but everything else will be closed”, and, yknow, being longtime, trusted, hardworking employees with store keys and all, we didn't think anything of it? in fact he actually fixed some merchandise on his way out. all on camera in case it was a real concern — two people went in, to the washroom, pissed, locked up and came back out, while the rest of us waited. we were…