r/Antiwork | the price of existence 💰💰💰

[@F-14B]

As someone who is unemployed and never touched grass, i infact cannot relate to this

[@conallirvine5157]

They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.

[@mightyx5441]

If you play any game remember you are technically touching grass (in-game)

[@tristan4454]

​@@mightyx5441 pac-man?

[@BaronVonQuiply]

I will dedicate a patch of my lawn to you so you can touch it in spirit.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

Living is a job. Checkmate.

[@cyndanetierney6449]

On the subject of the employer that didn't want the employees to take shelter during a tornado, I used to manage a fast food restaurant. It was a slow night, and the sirens started going off, and all that bad weather started to come down. I told my employees to take shelter in the back, and I locked the front of the store (luckily there were no customers in the store at the time so I could do this as it was basically just before closing). Suddenly we got a bunch of people trying to come through the drive thru in torrential downpour, awful wind, and sirens trying to order food. They got very upset when I told them that we were taking shelter and that I suggested they do likewise. So, yeah, everyone expects minimum wage employees to risk their lives for cheeseburgers.

[@the13throse]

the fact that the customers were trying to order food in dangerous weather. does convenience make some people go mega-stupid or something

[@Fire-Manz]

"Oh, deathly weather is coming my way ... Time to order some McDonalds"

[@jacthing1]

​@@the13throse nah that's just the Karen's they're just mostly blind, selectively deaf, have one braincell and are more prone to exploding than nitroglycerin.

[@ghostrecondelta1741]

Risk their lives for a 1/6th pound "Quarter Pounder".

[@wintersoren]

That literally happened to me not even 2 months ago. I was by myself at the store waiting for the person who was closing with me. The weather was horrible, yet people were still coming in. The sirens went off and the school behind the store sheltered in place and such. So I get ready to do the same, the guy who showed up, I rush him inside. No one was in the store. No cars in the parking lot at the time. So I opened up the bathrooms, so we can run in there. The sirens went off maybe 4 times, and people are just sitting in their car waiting for the door to open again. Acting like there's no risk. The weather finally stops and I hear this lady banging on the door, she was one of our regular and I USED TO think she was nice until this BS happened. I opened the door and she's like "I have your district manager on the phone" and I yelled "I don't care, there was a shelter in place." Some more bullshit like her telling my district manager my name in hopes of getting me fired, etc. I didn't care at that point. What was so important for her to buy in an active tornado warning you might ask? A 12 pack of mountain dew and some candy. I hate people.

[@IssacRootOfSin]

I had a math teacher tell me that "You dont owe your employers anything." When it comes to not getting paid properly for the work that you do,and honestly now hes my favourite teacher.

[@saraellis7294]

I swear these companies logic is literally just "if we starve our employees and pay them nothing that will motivate them to work harder"

[@mcjavabelike8320]

the faster the threat of poverty approaches the faster the employees will be forced to find a new job, making them settle for less.

[@saraellis7294]

Its depressing how right you are

[@hehehorf782]

this is also the reason capitalism doesnt even make sense as an economic principle. the goal is to maximize profits, by either cutting costs or boosting sales. if you cut costs by spending less on employees, those employees will have less capital to spend on products. you can cut costs or boost sales, not both, despite how hard they try to. eventually it will collapse, we just have to decide if we want it to happen before or after the Earth is destroyed

[@sluttyMapleSyrup]

The host and owner of Bar Rescue literally said that on national television. "It's the best way to motivate workers. They're like dogs, and we all know the best way to train a dog is to keep it hungry because *a hungry dog is an obedient dog."* Capitalists are unbelievably monstrous.

[@saraellis7294]

This was supposed to be a sarcastic comment but now I'm depressed

[@blueberrypanquakes]

I went to a Denny's once. Server was very pregnant and asked her manager when she was going to get a break since she'd been on her feet nonstop for something like 6 hours. Manager, very loudly, informed her that breaks were for people to go out and smoke, and it's not his f---ing problem that she got herself knocked up and wasn't smoking because of it.

[@Fishman7523]

This is perhaps the most aggravating thing I’ve ever read. I sincerely hope the birth went well, and that the mistreated worker found a much better position, particularly with managers who actually deserve to be a part of civilization.

[@wizardsuth]

Sounds like she should have gotten in touch with the Ministry of Labour / Department of Labor. There are laws enforcing breaks for employees.

[@ssjbread2803]

​@@wizardsuth from what I understand that depends on where you are, I remember hearing Iowa doesn't mandate breaks

[@vollied4865]

This is so fucked up, she deserves a break more than the idiots who smoke 😂

[@smartyjonez5470]

Sounds like the most made up story ever

[@DrunkOnPower]

This subreddit just shows how messed up our economic situation is right now

[@qazhr]

Not really it more showing how little people who hate capitalism actually understand it.

[@Rale881]

​@@qazhr then educate me great one

[@qazhr]

@@Rale881 what you like to know ?

[@phantomtoxin8756]

​@@qazhr all of it

[@qazhr]

@@phantomtoxin8756 ask away

[@Fishman7523]

This subreddit is honestly both extremely enlightening, and extremely terrifying. It forces me to acknowledge that I’m not far from being thrown into this hell of monetary exchange and corporate expectations. I am not eager to be made a slave to the rich. I’m being pushed by my guardians to prepare for my “future”, to apply to colleges, make connections, establish myself in the professional community (LinkedIn, resumes, cover letters, etc…) and so far it seems that the the only future in preparing for is the day when I am inevitably crushed beneath the march of this boring dystopia, (an r/aboringdystopia if you will), for the rest of my life. I have dreams don’t I? Is it my fate to suffer, a slave to dept, to my job, a mindless, soulless worker, bound to the yoke of society? Is that what’s expected of me? Is that how I define my worth? I don’t mean to be overly philosophical in a KZbin comment section of all things, but there’s too many questions to be answered for me to just sit idly by. What options do we have? What futures lie in store? Because the only future I can see isn’t one I’m looking forward to living.

[@fresanegra77]

Return to monkee. (Sadly there is not much one can do, specially in places like the us where rent is unpayable and living costs are seemingly rising by the hour, my only hope was to make you feel better with that joke, I hope you can live a happy life and with as little stress as possible... Best regards, random furry on youtube.)

[@caseyb1346]

Hi, I'm 37 years old. I'm only going to say this once. Don't. I made 2 big mistakes in life. One was letting myself be pressured into going to university, joining the business world blah blah blah. The other is not cutting ties with my parents and becoming self sufficient sooner. So what happened when I went to college? A great recession and they cut my pell grant because holding the budget hostage was in vogue with congress at the time. Then my parents died. No income, no place to live, no way to continue my education. I was homeless for 2 years. Now I can never own anything or work anywhere for too long less the DoE come and take/garnish me to pay my debt. It may sound like a rare story, but look at the graduation statistics. 40% of students who go to college do not get a bachelors degree. Think about that. You go to college, take on a life changing about of debt you cannot discharge in court, and you have nearly a 1 out of 2 chance of failing. Here's a alternative. The Pell grant is enough to pay for a Associates from a Community College on its own. Get that (or if you don't qualify, go part time and work your way through), and when your parents and whoever else try to push you into 'finishing your degree' at a university pack your shit, change your number and disappear. DO NOT go to university. Take what you learned, get a low level managerial position somewhere, and start looking for ways to go into business for yourself. A 2 year business degree will teach you 90% of what you need to know to run a small business, the rest you can figure out along the way. Don't be a slave. Not a wage slave or a debt slave. Don't wind up like me.

[@Fishman7523]

@@caseyb1346 I’ve considered your approach, however, I’m hesitant to simply cut ties with my parents. I’m young, sentimental, and frankly immature, but they are family, and it would break their hearts if I simply disappeared.

[@caseyb1346]

@@Fishman7523 Well, that's up to you. At some point you're going to have to upset your parents one way or another. It's really a matter if you think you can resist their influence and go your own way or not. I know in my case I need to quit things cold turkey to move on. We're all different though.

[@Fishman7523]

@@caseyb1346 good luck with your life, and thanks for sharing your experience :)

[@Just_a_commenter]

This subreddit will always deeply resonate with me. Love hearing Robin call out nonsense from out of touch employers. 0:59 hits hard as well... I may hate my job, and be underpaid vs the work I do, but I at least get paid enough to make ends meet. No job should pay for less than it costs for a person _to just exist._

[@qazhr]

First prove to me robin or people who post most of these understand economics in the first place . By the what what is your job because I’m starting to notice that when they bring up living wages they always use jobs that used to be for teenagers to get work experience or jobs so simple and entry level that anybody can do them that make me wonder why do you people to stay at those job to live off of.

[@senthemink]

​@@qazhr we understand full well how capitalism works. That's why we want something that works better lol

[@theparijat1000]

​@@qazhr While there might be some jobs that pay well, on an average it is a fact that certain amneties like real estate/rent has grown disproportionately in comparison to salary, as well as inequality has raised. Comparative to purchasing power of dollar previously vs now, it is not a better world for working class.

[@Ghostfighter797]

Yeah idk why companies expect people to work like robots 24/7 and expect the workers to afford a roof over their heads with such little pay.

[@qazhr]

@@senthemink if you expect better then you need less government and don’t trust any one who say something like communism

[@DIONCrullex]

12:18 Fun fact: In most of the country, denying someone you're legally responsible for (employee, dependent, ward) the ability to seek safety in the face of danger can be tacked as a willful negligence charge and can escalate to much worse things if said people actually get hurt :)

[@SirPembertonS.Crevalius]

Lmao, your IHOP story is gold. xD I feel it's required for a manager to be insane, lacking in empathy and logical thinking.

[@Manavine]

It is. If you aren't that, you get promoted until you're incompetent because being a manager is the only way to get a promotion

[@stormii362]

Furry L whatever the hell that pfp is L 💀 holy bro get a girl

[@shadowwriter329]

“Give us the password!” “I don’t have them or remember them.” “Then we’ll sue you! We can’t make money or pay our guys!” “Then how will you be paying a lawyer to get laughed by a judge? Sure go ahead and try.”

[@skyblazeeterno]

I know through experience that companies will tell you NOT to write down passwords so good luck with them trying to sue anyone for not having a record

[@Shiny_Sean]

5:35 for context. So, I work at a Walmart, and I love the self checks too. They are awesome. Fast, convenient, AND way less social interaction. They aren't there because Walmart only paid 6 people to be on registers, no they are there because Walmart struggles to hire for registers. Its the shittiest job in the store, barring the department registers in electronics, and automotive. No being on a register means you are the last chance a shit customer has to make someone's day worse. And they always take it. Every single time. Meth head yelled at me once that she had been waiting for help in electronics for 30 minutes when my shift had started 2 minutes ago (she entered the building a full 3 seconds before i did) and that is she didn't get an expensive phone for the price of a cheap one she was gonna be pissed. And thats a tame one. In one of the better areas to work. So yeah. Self checkouts exist because being 16 and running a till while entitled assholes of every shape size color and age treat you like garbage, is a worse job than hard physical labor. Aka unloading the trucks.

[@AceTheDragon3]

I work CAP 2 - And I thought _that_ was bad until I went up front to pay for my lunch/snacks. Yikes. My heart goes out to cashiers...

[@Shiny_Sean]

@@AceTheDragon3 i am register trained, I ran a CAP 2 team, and I still believe firmly cashiers have it tge worst.

[@arcturuslight_]

"Struggles to hire for registers" means exactly "only paid 6 people to be on registers". You just have to rephrase it into "only paying enough for the 6 most desperate people to take the offer". I know you'd only be able to endure that much more of that hellhole regardless of pay, but they easily can hire enough employees with fair compensation, but their strategy is to spend just enough that everything barely functions.

[@koresaliva]

It's hard to say because I've never been in that position, I work as a night restocker meaning I don't restock a small cart of merchandise, but entire pallets of merchandise. It would be fine if it weren't so demanding on time (40 mins per pallet) for the minimum wage they pay. Thinking about that, at least for me, sitting down and scanning items sounds like heaven to me

[@RaptorNX01]

No, it's definitely to save money. 1) they never have a shortage of applicants. and 2) they changed their policies just to make going to a cashier worse. they used to be super strict with cashiers. with insane quotas for ringing items. everything was timed and you had to scan a certain number of items per hour. the second they started bringing in self checkouts, they lessened or in some cases even removed the scanning requirements. Cashiers there now would never have survived under the old rules. to say nothing of the fact that just before self checkouts came out they had been trying to force everyone to learn registers just so they could hire less cashiers.

[@asahikinnie]

This stuff always hits home for me bc I make 12.50 an hour and work anywhere from 25-30 hours a week. In south dakota, I am so lucky that I had a preexisting relationship with my landlord. I used to pet/house sit for her and I'm now renting the house from her. I only pay 500 bucks a month in rent and I am very grateful for it because I know I literally couldn't afford rent anywhere else in my area

[@michaeljohnson1117]

Forget trying to unionize individual businesses or Industries. Someone needs to start a straight-up American Workers Union that any non-executive employee from any company can join, keep the membership private till it gets to a couple million members and then demand livable wages and fair benefits for every employee in the country and if they don't do what you want, shut down the entire economy.

[@tacticallemon7518]

Kinda like Finland Seriously, the Finnish postal strike of 2019 700 postal workers were going to have their pay cut, and the prime minister was trying to hide it something like 115k workers from across the country went on strike to the point where the national airline had to cancel flights due to pilots striking Also, in Finland, Employers are required to negotiate with unions on pay

[@mattdombrowski8435]

Might I reccomend the industrial workers of the world. Not quite what you are after, but they are at least bigger than a single company. They organized several stores in my area.

[@AmartharDrakestone]

0:19 - The truth is that if you do more than you're paid to do, you'll be expected to do it again, and again, and again... For the same money.

[@qtluna7917]

Remember kids, always get the "proper" way to request time off and so on in writing. don't just get told what to do. If they won't do this, they will just screw you over at some point

[@Ghostfighter797]

0:34 It's crazy to see how affordable apartments were with just minimum wage back then, nowadays you need several jobs to afford a 1 bedroom apartment.

[@jamesphillips2285]

I makes sense that minimum wage should pay for a basic apartment. What is outrageous is needing more than one job for a 1 bedroom apartment.

[@DiggerDeeper01]

@@jamesphillips2285 And a bedroom apartment that has like a hundred or less feet of space, and a single studio room (not even a separate bathroom.)

[@qtluna7917]

I have a slight suspicion what happened with the passwords. When the vault was taken offline, someone working at their IT tried to warn management, they didn't listen, so random IT guy made a backup of the passwords. And now someone pissed the IT guy off and they fucked up the routers as revenge. Because usually, someone (and even if it's just the intern), is smart enough not to delete the admin passwords.

[@Volvith]

In that hostile of a company structure, it could have honestly been anyone from the company tombstone to the intern's cat.

[@omgtatercat]

I'm 100% for stores having a few self checkouts. My issue is when a Walmart does away with ALL regular checkouts; the neighborhood market by my dad's house did this. It's ALL self checkout. Considering this is in a low income area with a lot of elderly, it's a stupid decision. They still have to have a clerk out ready to help some old person scan and bag their items.

[@wizardsuth]

One time I had picked out a full grocery cart and found they had no regular checkouts open. So I left and bought the same items at a different store. If they prefer putting things back on shelves instead of selling them, it's not my problem.

[@MayHugger]

@@wizardsuthThat unfortunately doesn’t help anyone though, you’re just punishing the people who have to put it all back when they did nothing wrong.

[@Graytail]

12:25 From what I can find, employers are under no oblication to send workers home in the face of a tornado, but OSHA requires them to maintain workplace safety, so if they're NOT going home, you better have a good place for them to shelter while still at work. Demanding they stay at their desks during a tornado however is an OSHA violation at the very least by the sound of it, and thats not something you wanna mess around with.

[@northerngryphon6933]

05:50 A few years ago, before my local Walmart built self-checkouts, I would do my shopping in the evening so that I would line up at the checkout at approximately 10 minutes before closing time. For some reason, that's when staff numbers magically multiply, and four times as many checkout lanes would be open than any other time.

[@minimey6259]

The final nail in the coffin for me to quit my job was after the AC broke in the store. I suffered a borderline heat stroke and myself and another coworker were regularly dealing with heat exhaustion. It was hotter inside the store than outside in the sun on some of our record high days. After weeks of complaints and repair requests, they finally let us close the store early and finish our shifts at another location whenever the store hit 90+ degrees Fahrenheit even though risk for heat stroke is 85.

[@Archer_Starling]

My college keeps complaining that "Nobody on campus wants to work, and we have so many job opportunities open!" Then why have I applied for 16 different job positions on campus and not a single person ever got back to me or even looked over my resume since August?

[@Voltmander]

i know it's annoying as fuck because i went through the same shit as you did now (except it's not at a campus but just applying to jobs in general... still haven't heard jack from 80% of the people looking for workers) but you should contact those you applied to after a few days just to check up

[@wolf1066]

6:17 - yeah, the companies were "saving money on staff" long before they introduced self-checkouts. Generally less than 50% of the checkouts in any supermarket were staffed at any one time and you had no choice but wait - and the "10 items or fewer" checkout line was sometimes long enough that it paid to queue up for one of normal checkouts.

[@skyblazeeterno]

I'm nearly 60 and British. Most jobs I've had since 1990 have been understaffed

[@limpfall13]

I’m only 18 not even finished with highschool and work from The outside just looks awful and I have zero motivation to go into it. Money simply is a means to a end and gives me no encouragement cause yknow that’s not how motivation works it doesn’t make the work the lives of people better it’s just a bigger number in my pocket that won’t change the actual bad jobs.

[@Raegoer]

2:07 thank you editor for not adding a rant timer. I know it took a lot of restraint and I am proud of you :)

[@philbateman1989]

Self checkouts are getting ridiculous. My local supermarket (I'm in the UK) has 8 self checkout stalls and 8 for scan as you shop things. How many staff for when they inevitably have to approve random stuff? 1. 1 staff member for 16 stalls, who also has to pull other duties like putting baskets and carts back, so they're run off their feet and barely have time to approve stuff. No wonder they can't find employees willing to fill that shift. It's not fair on the employee or the customer, and everyone just ends up frustrated. Thankfully that supermarket only asks for staff approval on restricted items once at the end of the transaction. Another local supermarket requires an employee to approve EVERY RESTRICTED ITEM INDIVIDUALLY as you scan them. Last time I went there, they had 1 employee manning the checkouts AND the self-scan lane with 8 stalls. This poor woman had to get up and stop scanning at the regular checkout THREE TIMES to approve things I was scanning at the self-scan stall. What was I buying? Alcohol? Knives? No. Bed sheets, a drill bit. She had to come approve both items individually for some reason, then approve it AGAIN at the end. That poor woman was busting her ass to deal with that bullshit, to the point where I sent in a complaint to the store asking why exactly they treat their staff like shit and don't staff any of the SEVEN other checkout lanes they have.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

To be fair the economy in the UK is actually falling apart right now and the poverty rate is like nearing 25% so I don't think that's entirely the business's fault.

[@owenkellogg3130]

Definitely. It is by no means faster to have seven customers waiting on approvals from one staff member.

[@jacthing1]

​@@bumblebeeyellowdragon I just looked it up cause that seemed really high and the unemployment rate is 3.7% according to a quick Google.

[@bumblebeeyellowdragon]

@@jacthing1 Google will give you a hundred different news article feeds with different numbers so that's not really a counter point but I was thinking of the poverty rate. The poverty rate in the UK was one in five families and it's only gone up since then. 3% seems way too low for any country though with unemployment so I don't trust that number at all. It's usually around 8-10% even in stable countries.

[@iexist1300]

​@@bumblebeeyellowdragonI was thinking that such a high unemployment rate would make it easier to hire new people. The poverty rate thing makes sense though.

[@BryanahRose]

I had a similar story to the cook one. I had just put in my 2 weeks notice at a previous job, already had the weeks schedule, requested the 2nd week of my 2 weeks as vacation as id never requested one and my supervisor who was super salty at the manager told me to. any who I'm chilling at home as, I was not scheduled for that day when I get a text from my friend (now bf) that the manager, put me down as the breaker on the daily worksheet and coworkers were asking why I hadn't shown up to do their break yet. He, never called me to ask why I wasn't there, or to come to work at all, he just told my coworkers I was a "pathetic no show", which I had never and never would have done in my life. bf went into the office and called him out on not even giving me a chance before talking crap on my name and was kicked out. next day I worked a lot of others came to me and told me the same thing, saying they were pissed at my manager for doing that to me. in the end he never mentioned it to me and when asked if I "still needed that week off" I was like, ya. if he didn't do that I woulda worked it.

[@kenkaku3989]

I remember one time when i worked at mcdonalds i was the only cook left, and we were about to hit a busy patch. Before it started i told everyone else there “if im doing this by mysef, i dont wanna hear shit about how long it takes.” One of the managers came back to the kitchen and helped me out, so i wasnt forced to do the whole kitchen’s job

[@leopold7562]

That last one is so true, and not just in America. In the UK it's just as prevalent - everything going up except wages, people living off food banks and turning their heating off, nobody has any savings, pensions are rubbish and if you lose your job and have no backup plans, you're done for. Two pay days from destitution is pretty much on the money.

[@jadev8679]

The IHOP story reminds me of something that happened to one of my friends. He'd called off for one day during the pandemic so he could get tested because he didn't feel well, his manager okayed it, the next day she called him and asked if he was coming in, and he said "uh, no" (because it was his regularly scheduled day off) and she said "okay, then don't come back"

[@lavafish7660]

always a good day when there's a new antiwork

[@lefishe5845]

Always a good day to see a fellow fish!

[@mikethegoo]

I agree. I always thought it was like... A bit odd when people would go "oh this is my favorite subreddit from you guys" because like... They're all more or less similar and all, but I get it now. Antiwork became my favorite one from the channel!

[@lavafish7660]

@@lefishe5845 indeed, Le Fishe Au Chocolat

[@Pancakes4CamPlz]

Dropping in to give a little hope. My manager is great! He listens to his employees' needs and doesn't even question needs for days off or early leave/late arrivals. In fact, if an employee isn't feeling okay, he'll have a talk with them to find what can help! We have to step in so HE won't overwork himself! Short-staffed? Well, we can't invent more, so we focus on what's important and leave the rest for some other time. I've been there for like... 8 months, doing my job properly, not overworking myself, and I got a promotion and a decent raise compared to minimum wage. (I'm in Canada) He's the best manager I've ever had, across all 8 level entry jobs I've had so far.

[@airam1721]

W manager

[@Just-Schizo]

Eyyyyyyyy ❤😂😅

[@nothingtoit142]

Caaaaaaanada.

[@xdankmemer6615]

Im also in canada, where do you work i want to join

[@zenny7479]

Ah well see, you have an advantage over us americans just for living in Canada

[@luna6248]

I admittedly love the self check out cause it means I won't have to interact with humans or deal with the anxiety of being too slow for the cashiers

[@skyblazeeterno]

I did till/cashier work and I suspect you will not be surprised that workers have targets in how many items and customers are dealt with in an hour...a slow customer fucks that up for them

[@oceanman4166]

I once got an offer from iHop to work. The condition was that they wanted me to pay them 15 dollars to purchase a mandatory shirt and hat. Immediate no. Chili's wanted to pay me 3 an hour, openly admitted that less than minimum wage is possible there and that, and even admitted that sometimes servers don't get paychecks due to taxes.

[@radioactivebirbchild]

at least they were honest...

[@xdarin_]

"If you do more than they pay you to do, eventually they'll pay more for what you do" No, doing good will just get you more work. Period.

[@cairox1509]

"Hard work is rewarded with more hard work"

[@skyblazeeterno]

I would add a caveat. Doing good work ON time will gain you the expectation of doing that ALL the time...plus no reward. Doing good work slowly behind schedule will probably get you a warning

[@mindmaster323]

I appreciate that Buc-ees is so up front. I'd work there. $20 bucks an hour for part time over night? That'd be nice. I currently work at UPS and the pay isn't bad, but it could be better. Loading trucks, especially during the Christmas Rush (which lasts 2.5-3 months), is definitely a $20+ an hour job. You start around minimum wage, get a 50c raise after 90 days and get an extra dollar for each year. Benefits and retirement are pretty good too. And, since everyone has worked their way up from the bottom, management absolutely gets it. Union is trying to get starting pay up to $22 an hour and I hope they succeed.

[@AtomicArtumas]

I'm going to say this once again. We are still experiencing an employee shortage. If your job tries to do something... just quit on the spot and, depending on how bad it is, pursue legal action against them. (you'd be surprised by how many things companies do actually ARE illegal, and it's generally really easy to find a law firm or otherwise that'll do the entire suit for you on your behalf without costing you a single penny or a single second of your time beyond that first meeting with them) You can find a job within like 24 hours in most areas. A week at most. And probably end up earning more. Seriously, if you even QUESTION whether or not you're happy with your job, start going around trying to find a new one. And give a serious consideration to your willingness to move to a different area for a job. My family has been doing this for the past 6 months or so and there's a very good chance that we're going to end up just straight up moving an entire state away because... we've found several similar jobs to the one the only person that doesn't work from home has that pay quite literally 4-5x as much. And it's not even a low-end job, to start with, but we're talking going from ~$70k/year to ~$200-300k/year for basically the EXACT SAME JOB, just by moving south like 200 miles. #1: Move away from republican states. Stop living in states that actively try and lower the minimum wage, that have loopholes in every single thing to pay you less, that are against state-run aid programs, that are against state-mandated regulations. They're terrible places to live. If you're not economically stable (middle class, not "have an income that can afford rent"), you're better off living almost anywhere else, and any "benefits" you think you're getting are NOT making up for how little you're making and how bad of conditions you have to work in. #2: Don't be afraid to swap jobs fairly regularly. Your income, job stability and working conditions will improve significantly faster by constantly trying to actively move up in position by applying for jobs at different companies than it will by just working at the same spot for your entire life. This is extra true if the place you're working at isn't part of a union or has an extremely strict corporate promotion/raise system in place. #3: Don't be afraid to (legally) record things your bosses and companies say to you, report them and sue them. Most of the time you're quite literally guaranteed a payout of more than your yearly income. You can legitimately make a living off of getting hired by shady restaurants and then recording, reporting and suing them in some areas >.> but seriously, don't be afraid to do this. It's something SO many people are ridiculously adverse to for reasons unknown to me. If your boss is trying to get you to break state laws... report them. If you're not living in a corrupt republican state, your boss is going to get massively fined and you'll likely get some form of payout from it. And you can even do a lot of this stuff completely anonymously. Similarly... IF ANYONE you know is fudging their taxes - Report them to the IRS. Look it up. There's an IRS bounty system. Stop protecting corrupt idiots and get paid for it instead.

[@blackie126]

Taxation is theft.

[@ouzeir8439]

9:57 $6 is $1.25 below the national minimum wage in the United States. They should file a lawsuit against that owner.

[@NamelessKing1597]

The service industry isn't legally bound to minimum wage, I don't know what the loophole is but there is one.

[@flumfybud]

These videos are depressing... but they make me very happy that you folks over at EmKay can do this stuff for a living!

[@Josh_the_jester]

4:47 I love this power play. What's the owner gonna do? Sue him for every penny he doesn't have? "You trashed my car so I'm gonna sue you for $500k!" The trucker: best I can do is $50.00

[@turtlesarecool]

Then he sues him for not paying

[@sadraccoonboy]

God it just makes me so glad I left Safeway. I was hired part time, worked like that for about a month before getting thrown on 40+ weeks with none of the full time benefits. When I asked for more time off they’d say ‘well it’s busy so NO ONE gets that right now’ as if that’s supposed to make me feel better??? Then randomly I was thrown out to work at the gas station where management wouldn’t care about us at all. We’d have drunk and high people outside our box all the time, one even starting a tiny fire outside the door and dancing around it. A fire at a gas station. You know. Genius. The last straw for me was a guy who came up to the window, much older than me and the teen girl working that night, and asked when we were off and said ‘:) okay I’ll wait until then’. Management didn’t come out for literal hours while this guy sat there staring, even when coworker had to go outside to do trash. When someone finally did come out and lead him away, it was like well finally, thank god, only to go inside the store an hour later to return the keys and SEE HIM THERE CASUALLY TALKING TO THE DUDE. God I dunno it just seemed super wrong to me. Not long after I decided to leave cuz (as someone who doesn’t drink) I had the thought ‘maybe I should start drinking’. No way I could stay past that. Moral of the story, working for them sucked- absolutely don’t recommend 👍

[@DiggerDeeper01]

Ironic that you weren't safe at a place called *SAFEWAY.*

[@commenter3002]

6:45 You need to include that to be passive-agressive to your bosses, especially after that

[@sweetcherry7759]

*Reminder/Fun-Fact:* Slave Wages = Wages so low that employees are only living Paycheck to Paycheck Current Minimum Wage = SLAVE WAGES Living Wage rn should be nearly $30 pr hr, based on avg cost of living

[@AtomicArtumas]

the fuck do you live that it's that expensive. No, seriously, this is a serious question. I'm comfortably middle class in a relatively expensive but not stupidly overpriced (read: not LA) area, and we average like... $24/hour. Own a house. Have savings. Have a working newer car. Have pets. Eat well. Spend a LOT on entertainment and hobbies. Just because LA, SF and NYC are stupidly overpriced doesn't mean that's remotely the average cost of living in the country. And we could definitely sell our house that's now worth between 6 and 12 times what we bought it for (yay economic booms and inflation...) and move somewhere much cheaper and literally buy a mansion and live like moderately rich people. Hell, we legitimately considered buying a $800k castle we found for sale in Ireland and just moving across the atlantic entirely.

[@panzerwolf494]

Shop I work at had us doing 12 hour days, 7 day week, and the employees started grumbling about at least getting a day off a week so they could tend to their home lives. Management held a meeting with the crew where they told us in nicer terms, there's the door, don't like the schedule, get out. Half the staff quit. People with 20-30 years with the company just left that moment. So a while goes by and we start having this issue again and again the management tells us all tough shit. Half the remaining crew quit. Management had the fucking brainstorm that hey, maybe telling people to eat shit isn't a great business tactic. So now they don't enforce anything. Production sucks because no one is being taught to do their jobs right, morale sucks because the few of us that know the jobs are tired of having to cover for everyone, people are quitting faster than we hire. Yeah, place is in a death spiral but as long as the owners see those trucks leaving the loading dock they think it's a success

[@MXTX_lv3r]

Last year we had free lunches at school (for COVID, but I did hear teachers saying we should keep it for the kids with less money), but this year they didn’t do that. I didn’t realize until I checked my lunch balance and it was $-379.35! Needless to say, with my dad out of state and my mom having to work part time, I started to bring home lunches…

[@wisteriaaa_23]

They way you paused to read "zig ziglar" 😭😭

[@Imdatrobloxboi]

“If you do more than you are paid to do, eventually you will get paid more for what you do.” Hahah, *no.*

[@damienearl8302]

It's hilarious that they just kinda forget that unless you're lucky, or you just work for an honest business, business owners tend to exploit the willingness of their workers to put in exceptional work for low pay- Like, do people not remember the time when a whole bunch of people came flooding into the US and there was somewhat of a work shortage because of the amount of businesses willing to do just that? It wasn't even that long ago!

[@qazhr]

Yes but this generation expects it way faster then it makes sense.

[@damienearl8302]

@@qazhr Well, no, read the comment above for context

[@imaplaguedoctor2146]

@@damienearl8302 He cannot read real stuff, only stuff that fits to his agenda

[@feuerling]

Only under uncontrolled capitalism could a technology that _gives people more free time by doing their work_ be considered a bad thing

[@anime-mun]

As for how the manager who complained about potential gamer workers? Employers scour your social media now. Thats why if I'm gonna interview anywhere I say to them: "My professional life and my personal life are two separate things. My social media falls under the purview of my personal life - you don't need to see it as it will not be connected to my work here." I advise all of you to do the same!

[@Topbeehler]

I'm pretty sure math was done on this proving not only that living as it stands now is reaching nearly impossible levels but within 10 or 20 years or something like that America could face the largest homeless crisis the world has ever seen when people have nowhere to leave when prices for living is way to high. Assuming you work for a job making 20 thousand a year, meaning a low paying full time job, after taxes that can be anywhere from 16000 to as low as 10000 depending on your area. My parents made 12000 after taxes making 22000 at a factory. Now car insurance cost about 150 dollars in my area a month, out of a 1000 dollar a month job that's now down to 850, not counting gas, which can cost roughly the same with all the driving, so 600. Now we can get to food, assuming you are buying for yourself, and the fact at 22K we're over poverty in my area so you can't get food stamps, if you cut yourself down to just something like ramen noodles at a dollar a package, eat 2 of them a day, that's a monthly bill of 60 dollars, or 1/10th the remaining money. 540 is left and god help you if you have other bills. No Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, so on. An apartment in my area cost about 1500 dollars a month cheap. Meaning you'd be paying 1/3rd of the rent tops for an average 1 bedroom apartment in my area. And that's assuming you are doing everything right and have zero bills aside from food, car/gas, and living. If ANYTHING breaks down or you have a medical bill then you have no money. Livable wage is calculated in similar ways going over cost of rent in your area plus food and basic human needs. We are so well below this that once the older generation dies being nice letting people live with them (In 10 - 20 years) There will be such a large number of suddenly homeless people that it could completely destroy the idea of fair, safe living and the american dream as a whole (Not that it wasn't already pretty dead at this point) What our government doesn't understand is once all these people go homeless. Once we can't live anymore, and we can't survive what else is there to lose? Honest to god I can see millions going to the white-house demanding change and again these people will have nothing to lose so god help the people in charge when that day happens. We've been telling them for years, this is very avoidable but I have a strong feeling that unless they fix the issue and take money from the top to fund the bottom things could end up being pretty bleak for all parties. Just a theory but hey could be fun to see it all happen

[@AtomicArtumas]

...if you're making 20k/year, you need to move somewhere that isn't republican. No, seriously, I'm not aware of a single democrat majority state where minimum full time is anything lower than like $40k/year, or where there's at least entry level positions in very easy to get into fields that end up paying around that much. (the dining service is amazing anywhere that doesn't allow employers to pay less than minimum wage. Around here you can legitimately make $20/hour+ being a waiter at a small local restaurant or bar... somewhere like Vegas you can literally make between $100k and $300k/year literally just being a bartender.) What people don't understand is it's the [redacted] republicans doing this to people and so they keep voting them in. Nearly every democrat state has a minimum wage that's nearly double the federal requirement. Nearly every democrat state has their own versions of welfare programs that are generally way better than the federal version. Why? Because the republicans vote down every attempt to increase these things federally. My family has made less than $45k/year on a single person's full time job in the last 25 years. Most of these jobs were 100% entry level. Being a waiter. A house painter. A freaking grocery store checkout person. My mother currently works as a physically disabled person doing a part time job that pays over $25k/year doing a job that quite literally takes less than 2 hours/day to do from home on her phone. In an industry she had quite literally zero professional experience or qualification in, that she applied for purely because the guy actually doing the job completely sucked at it and spent maybe 5 minutes/week doing the exact same job. (rip dude's free income, lul) Try voting in the people that actually want to increase minimum wage. Try moving to states that actually care about living conditions. Try finding a job that actually pays something real instead of some horribly underpaid factory job.

[@manasdharpure5789]

8:56 Yeah I can confirm this is true since my mother is a lecterure in a college. They also give very low salaries and there are many I mean MANY delays.

[@DragonbornMike-ym2er]

I bet telling employees to not seek shelter from a tornado would be a decent OSHA violation as its pretty much the definition of demanding an employee to engage in unsafe behavior/actions. They should really get their asses sued to hell.

[@wizardsuth]

Not sure about the U.S., but in Canada workers have the right to refuse to work under hazardous conditions.

[@Cammi_Rosalie]

I haven't been in school since 1994, and that was in a small-town Kansas school. So I'm probably uninformed on a few counts and a bit old fashioned. (And stubborn as a mule) But I remember having teachers that taught IN the classroom. They gave a lecture, the assignments, and then allowed time in class to do the assignments. My English teacher would get up in front of the class and read Shakespeare, in character with "ye olde accents" and all. He would let us pick a character and the whole class would just read along while every student took their turn reading their part. Mr, McD was brilliant! Interactive. positive vibes, approachable, kind, funny, friendly and caring. My Science teacher was an older fellow who was a farmer. We could get him off track by asking him what it was like when he was a kid.. He would ramble on for half the class period, It was great. But did he assign homework? Never. We would just pick it back up the next day. Mr. G was another wonderful, and kind teacher. (he was my favorite) In history class, we were taught, not told. Mr T. was again, helpful interactive and kind. We learned, had time to do the work and actually benefited from it. Now if you messed around, or daydreamed or doodled or whatever other thing, and did not utilize that time to do the assignment, THEN you got homework. You wasted the allotted time given to you, so now you have to use *your* time. Fair enough. Now My niece and nephews are in school. One of these monstrosities in Pennsylvania that have absorbed all the other small-town schools into one big mess of an "Educational Center" The biggest gripe from them is teachers who talk for half the class, then hand out papers to do for the other half, then on top of that ASSIGN work to take home. On the kids' personal time. At home. Taking away family and friends time. Taking their time to chill, relax, play, socialize etc. These kids carry backpacks that are so damn heavy, with all the asinine bullshit they get assigned to do AT HOME, its ridiculous! I have seen a few times where my nephew did not have time for dinner, because these teachers don't want to budget their class time appropriately, and assign so much work that they kids are forced to do it at home. NO! Just fucking NO! FUCK THAT! School is school, home is home. Teachers, do your job in the allotted time. Don't overburden these kids with a full period of work, then expect them to go off on THEIR time and do even more. That's no different than these sleazy-asshole bosses who demand that their employees work their shift and then go home and work even more. No! I'm glad I don't have kids in school. I would be up there every other day ripping someone a new ass. Spring break used to be Mon through Fri. Kids had 9 days to relax. Now this year they made it Thurs to Tues. They took 3 days off the break. Schools are still going into June, when I would be on summer break in May. Many of these schools don't even shut for summer. As a school-van driver, I drive kids to school all school year, then drive the same kids for 75% of the summer too. No wonder these kids are so pissed off and want to act out. Their most important years are being robbed by the schools with hardly any time for themselves to be kids. They are TOLD shit that they will likely never use in real life. But none are TAUGHT how to budget a bank account, change a tire/oil, how to drive, how to fix a faucet, do laundry, You know things they actually need to know, along with necessary school topics like the How to freaking READ and SPELL. But nope. Lets add the alphabet to math instead, and then fuck that up with that "common core" stupidity.. I listen to my students. I hear their gripes. To them, the school is a mill. The meat grinder scene from Pink Floyd The Wall video. Just churn as many warm bodies out as possible, with minimal effort as possible and collect the guaranteed union money. Sure some teachers do get the raw end of the deal. But many of them sit in the classroom, don't offer any kind of help, just running their classroom mill, thumbing their twitters and have the nerve to assign homework. Fuck that. My niece & nephews would have LOVED my English, Science, and History teachers. But all they do is piss and moan about theirs.

[@dany_fg]

I saw once a someone with two full shopping carts in the self checkout, I was there for 5 minutes and when I left they didn't even get to half of the first cart. there should be a self checkout limited to 5 or 10 items because of people like that

[@Jackladox]

I just discovered this subreddit. I love it. It shows what I should and shouldn't do when I manage my store. Unfortunately some management for businesses loves to abuse their power. No wonder why I can't get more people hired. People's past managers are jerks

[@halooord]

Damn, $7.25 an hour? I could only dream, working at a call center here in SEA, getting paid about $10 a day, receiving calls from Karens thinking they know better because they are in America, sometimes we get fed up, sometimes we do become rude, and some say "They pay you $10 an hour to be rude on the phone!? Let me speak to your manager, right now!". Ma'am, we are not paid enough to deal with your bullshit all because you're divorced, and someone pissed you off, does not mean you can berate me all day on the phone.

[@KYSMO]

This subreddit is honestly both extremely enlightening, and extremely terrifying. This subreddit just shows how messed up our economic situation is right now. Love hearing Robin call out nonsense from out of touch employers. I am lucky to have a great employer right now, but I had some nutcases in the past, as well.

[@Meximagician]

12:11 Nope. In America (and a few other places) modern employment contracts have an arbitration clause, meaning that any legal action by employees against the company needs to happen through a private court. Corporate arbitration is more expensive, the results are not made public, and class actions _simply do not exist._ They suck, and if every one of these private courts burned to the ground immediately the country would be better for it.

[@AtomicArtumas]

This... isn't... at all... accurate. CERTAIN companies, sure. Not all. Not most. And they're still generally able to be superceded by a normal court. Because they usually aren't actually legally binding, they're just tied to certain benefits or whatnot. Which... is also not actually legal in most cases. Me and my family have definitely sued a fair number of employers, including within the last couple years. The vast majority of employers don't... do this. At all. In most fields. Stop living in backwards anti-non-rich people states or something.

[@FenrirWolf203]

3:40 They tend to have apps that allow them to look if the e-mail account was used in social platforms, from that they've got a profile where they can start digging in order to get a picture of the person they are interviewing. Sometimes it's scary how much information someone can get from you without your knowledge. It's why I think people should have a secondary e-mail only for work, to avoid this type of things.

[@maironv6479]

The salary ranges (at 10:40 ) are actually a good thing since these are long-term positions. It allows the workers to hold the same title for years and still have salary increases that match their professional growth. I'm pretty sure, considering the overall good conditions, that they have some guaranteed salary reviews every once in a while

[@TheBigbean500]

6:22 they can only hire enough people that apply. I am a cashier at Walmart, we have 2 self checkout areas and registers. During the day, almost all registers are open and staffed by students and elderly who don't want to work at closing. Then most nights, we only have 1 lane, and the 2 self areas. Walmart can hire as many employees as they want. But they are limited by applications they recieve.

[@skyblazeeterno]

So you are claiming they employ everyone that applies?

[@TheBigbean500]

@skyblazeeterno probably not EVERYONE, but definitely most. They aren't afraid to fire people quickly either.

[@skyblazeeterno]

@@TheBigbean500 I agree it's most but having a relative that's autistic lying and bs are just alien to them

[@GeneralGayJay]

I love this subreddit. It makes my blood boil and gives me a good gym session. Better than music.

[@Norinia]

5:10 I remember when I was 11-15 and really wanted to get a job stocking at the grocery store to pay for my hobbies. I was denied that because I wouldn’t accept the idea of being forced to go clean a toilet in a mens room that someone just had explosive diarrhea coated. You know, like a store is legally required to call a biohazard team over for because that is a massive bio hazard. (And besides that, I couldn’t get how stocking equals scrub the toilets. And destroyed diarrhea coated toilets at that.)

[@MothmanOfficialWva]

Imagine calling people entitled because they want a place to live.

[@fluffyou9276]

*need a place to live

[@xmmatheog]

1:39 for someone who works for a company that has this exact same issue, it is a pain in the ass. The managers never look at the days you've booked off for holiday, and you either have to get it covered and not get paid or call in sick and not get paid because they won't do anything about it. It's so stupid

[@mewtwothepewpew]

Berating a man for not coming in on Easter Sunday, is the most disgusting, unreal scenario I've come across this week.

[@AtomicArtumas]

IMHO, just because it's a holiday, doesn't mean anyone should be given special treatment over it. You're not forced to be religious. Not every company is religious. Not every employee is religious. Not every customer is religious. Just because you believe some ancient fanfic is the word of some magical sky daddy doesn't... like... matter. I don't expect anyone to give me special treatment for celebrating various things on their anniversaries or special days, like star wars day, mario day, pi day, etc. I fully understand a manager being like "it's just a random date, come in to work still, we're going to be busy". The entitlement of religious people is honestly the biggest reason I can never see myself ever being religious. I don't want to end up being so entitled that I genuinely expect special treatment aligning with my beliefs and get genuinely offended by people that just... don't care because they don't follow the same beliefs. Like, imagine seeing a reaction like yours to someone being told they're expected to come to work on Shakespeare's birthday. "most disgusting, unreal scenario I've ever seen that someone's expected to work on some random day that some dude from a couple hundred years back was born on". Or... the day france was founded, despite living in australia. Or... pi day, march 14th. The actual [redacted] is so special about a book supposedly conveying the words of a magical sky daddy that to this day no one can even prove existed that it warrants such massive levels of entitlement, that it warrants getting offended over, that it warrants legal protections?

[@mewtwothepewpew]

@@AtomicArtumas Work every hour of the year if you want robot, what's it to me?

[@wiggard]

​@@AtomicArtumas my G Imagine not giving your employees a day off when they have a religious event that happens once a year that they spend with their family that is known and done worldwide.

[@desstai6138]

Used to work at a movie theater as a manager. Movie theaters are scummy to their workers. You don't get extra pay for overtime, you are not required to provide any breaks, you are not required to pay extra on holidays even though movie theaters are open on all major holidays. It's a terrible gig. As a manager it was expected that I would not have an actual lunch break and just eat when I could. Usually worked 10 hour days sometimes I had to pull 24-48 hour shifts on nights of big screenings. All of this is 100% legal because it's seen as "entertainment industry" and anytime anyone brought up overtime or holidays the owner would email them with just the page from the Labor Laws that stated that movie theaters are exempt from these. Had to finally quit because I couldn't afford rent or to eat food or really anything. I had to borrow a thousand dollars from my parents just to be able to not get evicted from my apartment..... oh and as a manager I was making 8.20 an hour and cooperate would deny my raise requests because they couldn't afford to pay me.

[@donald12998]

That bucee sign is both decent wages, and fully transparent, so i like it.

[@HER0_]

4:43 gigachad response

[@GamerErman2001]

2:55 OK that manager definitely deserves to be fired. His management caused them to be understaffed at that time and then he blamed an employee when they were just doing what he told them to.

[@soggysocks1238]

My dad's company literally told him, "Well, no one's quitting, so we aren't going to give you a higher raise. In fact, you're lucky we're giving you 3%, 2% is competitive"

[@lorivaldez4839]

This subreddit is gold EmKay! Y’all rule 🎉

[@BaronVonQuiply]

01:10 $10 for uniforms. If you require your employees to wear a stupid shirt, you supply the stupid shirt. I worked at a place that tried selling us store-branded clothing. One of my co-workers wore a baseball cap and was regularly told to remove it, so he inquired about buying the branded hat. They told him no problem, but you still can't wear it at work. So what's the point? They thought their department store was so popular that people would pay to advertise it.

[@Blade_of_Violet_Chaos]

Yo, 18 an hour at a car wash making 40+ hours? That's more than I make now fixing those cars they're washing

[@Zephyrt3mp3st]

It is looking more and more like the "grind it to a halt" is the best option. We do that and they have literal days to fix it or go bankrupt.

[@bruhchannel1216]

11:30 dang a business which cares about its employee's

[@Rainok]

Interesting how a place that actually pays good is also draconian

[@InvasionAnimation]

0:44 as someone alive before 2009 that is bull. Apartments were still in the 1k range.

[@jessya775]

The more videos you guys make on this sub, the more I think the US is, like, 5 minutes away from a french style revolution

[@Lumakid100]

Wouldn’t be surprised if it happened. I live here and hearing these horror stories makes me ashamed of my country.

[@bersekovitch]

The Happy Lard package really did my day

[@twotailedavenger]

9:30 Trickle-down economics are a very real thing, and they DO work. The problem is that we've been drawing the diagrams representing HOW they work *upside down* this whole time.

[@AtomicArtumas]

They work in a closed economy. We aren't a closed economy. There's a reason the same sort of concept actually generally worked during stuff like the roman era. Because the rich people still have to actually spend their money back at the same people they earned their money from. But when a rich person earns their money in america and then spends it in italy.... that.. doesn't work...

[@Rocky_Module]

At 12:57 I'd cheer with them as well, some of the houses are so overpriced you might as well just trade then your kidneys

[@Norinia]

I remember when we used to hire people based on the schedule they could do, not the schedule these psychopaths imagined in their heads and lied about until the contract was signed.

[@derpious267]

I am 17 and really not looking forward to dealing with this stuff...

[@owenjolley351]

*If the job search is getting you down then just remember that Prince Charles had to wait over 70 years for his first job.*

[@Eric-jh5mp]

Actually cheering for a housing market crash on first though made me think "wtf" then immediately after I was like "holy shit that's actually kinda a solution to so many problems!"

[@skiffy8121]

"if you dont show up youre automatically fired" uhuh, screenshot it, get in touch with a lawyer, theyd loooove to get paid for that

[@tttITA10]

You know... for a country in which guns are sold at the supermarket, the US seems to have way too many problems related to the exploitation of a huge majority by a very small minority.

[@GamerErman2001]

6:03 Honestly a lot of the Walmarts I've been to seem to have the same number of people running checkouts while also having staff monitoring the self-checkouts and helping customers that can't get it to work right so they either hire more people now or they downsized other types of staff.

[@chesno611]

you know... the more i watch these antiwork videos the more i get concerned for leaving college am i going to be ok? what type of work environment am i going to end up with? will i even be paid enough to make the past 19 years of my life (at the point of next year) worth it? and it sucks that i cant just.. feel safe with working.

[@TeaSippingCommunist]

3:12 I thought manager and psychopath were synonyms

[@NashTheBlade]

0:39 One major reason that I can think of why that exists....Look up Airbnb....I would seriously question the legality of that company's existence...Biggest reason why...Ever since Airbnb existed, and found out people were making money off of it even though Airbnb's methods were questionable at best with how they deal with safety checks...The owners of apartment complexes saw this as buisness opportunities and started using rooms for Airbnbs and started charging hotel rates for those people, which ended up raising the rent for every single tenant in the projects...Just get rid of Airbnb, please!

[@ellasummers9671]

As someone who works in service and actually knows how the self serve machines work and why they come up with certain errors and how to fix them without needing a staff member's approval. I will say the machines are actually very very efficient especially when I just do a quick shop. Its also very easy for the younger generation to get the machines to work because they just keep clicking and pressing things until they get it right. The older generations have more trouble because most are technophobes and they just give up immediately and call for help. I've gotten into the habit of explaining some of the errors so customers can learn to adjust their packing and scanning process to avoid the errors instead of just blaming the machine or me or my company or my managers or me or capitalism or me.

[@wizardsuth]

Oh, yes, it's very efficient getting the customers to do unpaid work instead of hiring people and having to pay them. Which is why I refuse to do self-checkout.

[@ellasummers9671]

@@wizardsuthI'm sorry but do you as a customer want to be paid to do your own shopping. LMAO. Do you need your mother to give you pocket money to clean your room as well?

[@ellasummers9671]

@@wizardsuth Well yes it is actually. From an analytical standpoint self checkout allows for 12 customers at a time in my store while only needing 1 employee to operate the area. If that same employee was plonked on a register and had to pack bags serving only 1 customer at a time that's 11 other customers that have to wait to be served instead of the latter where there is no wait time.

[@TheLocomono9]

Personally with the job market opening up I decided to switch from a service industry to medical. So I’m doing my part to grind that economy to a halt

[@your-local-anon]

I'm so early the dinosaurs haven't gone extinct yet omg

[@BoxInThisLapVR46]

Famous last words

[@BGDMusic]

yes

[@pokegullig]

​@@BGDMusic a- a gay dinosaur? 😰

[@BGDMusic]

@@pokegullig ye

[@insanecatman13]

@@BGDMusic does BGD stand for *B*ig *G*ay *D*inosaur?

[@quagger6919]

babe wake up emkay just dropped

[@eyeseer1]

Depresses me that I have worked with a school custodian who has worked 20 years to his job but still lives in his truck from 2014.

[@AesherYT]

the buc-ee's thing at about 10:30, he didn't even notice it said weekly, and thought it was hourly

[@ravenlorans]

A Menards I worked at Hired me at (The Time) $10 A Hour to work in in the Back Bays/Lumber Area/Stocking/Yard. That $10 was only after a Extra $2 for qualifying to Run a Forklift. I Could ONLY Work Part Time because I had a Back Injury... So 20hours a Week... Rent was Cheap back then so I could live.... Survive off of $10... BUT If another part of the store needed someone, they would take one of us to work in that part... Catch was, that part of the Store only paid $7.50 and We had to Clock In, in that part of the Store and Only Get Paid the $7.50.... Even IF we had to use the Forklift.... They went through 5 Different Store Managers in a Year, Countless Back Bays/Lumber Area/Stocking/Yard Guys in that year I worked there. Most because they would Fuck Around and Fucked Up the Forklifts ( too many ways to post here ) Or Left because they would have Money taken from their Paychecks to cover the 20ft Long Garage Doors they would Drop form the Highest part of the bays you Need a Forklift to get instead of the lowest.... Then they Hired a New Back Bays/Lumber Area/Stocking/Yard Manager. Red Military Cut Hair, Irish and Swastika Tattoos Asshole that Dropped My Hours from the 20hrs a Week to 4 and would Bitch me out for shit I wasn't even Hired to do and was Not even Working at the Time, So After Cussing me Out in front of a group of Customers AS LOUD AS HE COULD and In Front of the Store Manager, I told him in a Calm voice, "Fuck You, I Quit!" Store Manager keep trying to get me to stay and and and.... They Fired the guy a few weeks later because NO ONE Wanted to work around him and were walking off the job because of Him... They gave him the Power to Fire anyone He wanted and He Fired Half the Back Bays/Lumber Area/Stocking/Yard Staff in the first two weeks he was there... And they wondered why shit wasn't getting done.