r/Antiwork WHY WON'T MY EMPLOYEES WORK FOR FREE??? 

Whenever my boss needed me and knew I wouldn't come in he'd hit me with the "you don't have to walk to work we'll come get ya plus dinner" eventually the price changed based on the day but the guy knew people needed incentive to come in on an off day

The tea story: please call the labor board. You are owed back pay and possibly penalties for all of the meal breaks you weren’t allowed to take.

The tippers found out what the restaurant tried to do with her tips and demanded their money back and then gave it to her and another waitress that served them. The waitress was then let go a little while later but the restaurant claimed it was unrelated. Yeah. Sure.

Waitress: **Has $4400 in tips** *"My tips!"* Co-workers and owner: *"OUR TIPS."* GoFundMe: *"Nope, her tips."*

Company: "Hey, work for us and get a 30% employee discount." Employee: Uses discount Company: "You're Fired!"

that person that got fired for "theft" of a can of tea... should totally sue for false dismissal, 20 seconds in court to show the judge the receipt and OP could win THOUSANDS from that megacorp

I’m a waitress. That story of the waitress getting fired over the large tip pisses me off!! We do not pool tips we I work. It’s a family owned diner that’s been around since 1944. One of the waitresses was given a $1400 tip. The manager did not expect her to give any of it to us. I made almost $3,000 on the week before Christmas this year. Our customers are very generous around the holidays. I did give out some of the tips I made. All of my coworkers work their asses off!

Corporate America really sucks. Had this been in Sweden where I live most of these corporations managers CEO’s would have had to pay a big sum or gone to jail

You wont ever see this rslash but your videos literally make my day better. After I have bad night like last night I look forward to just being able to listen and laugh. Thank you for doing what you doing

1st story amazes me. This "manager" just needed only 3 short text messages and he managed to lose another employee. Master class.

to the guy driving his boss.....what he is doing is (in the USA anyway), flat out illegal due to labor laws. The BS gap in the work schedule unfortunately isn't, but the boss demanding he picks him up and takes him home without compensation is. By law, that can be considered work without pay. In addition, by default, the company is using OPs resources either without permission or by coercion. AND if OP stands up for himself and is fired, he has grounds to sue for wrongful termination. OP also mentioned he worked at a "Big Box" store, so there most likely are superiors to this boss to talk to about this. I wouldn't put up for this and tell the boss it's time to find his own ride and let the chips fall where they may.

Time to reset the “I’m a professional RU-vidr” timer 50 videos a day, though!? ETA: shoutout to rSlash for wanting to help out OP to get a new job. I hope everything works for OP

When I worked at subway I was fired a week before christmas because my *new* manager had personal beef with my manager that just left the company. What makes it worse is the night before I was texting her and she was saying nothing about me being let go and had me walk into work like I always do. I wouldn't even be mad about it if she just had the decency to not lie to me. But jokes on her because she fired me all my coworkers walked out and they had to shut down that location. ❤

Story 1: “What I said then no longer applies.” Yeah, that’s not how the world works. It would have been epic if turned the tables by agreeing to come to work, then when they didn’t show up and Boss calls, throw that comment back at them. Just to show the AH *why* the world doesn’t work that way.

Company: short staffed Person: does work of 3 people Also person: ask for raise Company: lolwut?

There was an incident in my hometown earlier this month where a company attempted to force an employee to come in for a shift when the employee had covid symptoms, and when the employee refused they got fired! Kinda surprised that didn't make it to this subreddit, it kinda blew up on Twitter

Lol, I used to be a manager a restaurant and no joke I had several owners tell me that "if an employee only looks at this place as an ATM they need to be dealt with and they should have more passion for the job" and I had the same reaction you'd think. I was like "yea, it's just a shitty restaurant job of course it's an ATM to them. It's not like waiting tables is anyone's dream job." I mean there not doctors or astronauts no one cares that much about waiting tables and it's not like they get paid enough to care that much either.

$12-14/hr is actually pretty common in my state. Geez that lady though.

“Here’s a detailed graph of my contributions and importance” *Gets fired, later takes back all their work* RSlash: You are my kind of person. Let’s talk business

When someone threatens to quit, why would you double down? I swear 90 percent of management weaseled their way into their positions.

I read that story on the $4,400 tip. They gave no reason to firing her and said the not sharing of the tip was NOT the reason. I call BS

Tipping should be a “ooo you did a good job, here some extra”. Not “oh I need to pay a tip so this worker can eat”

"You should be glad you even have a job!" "And YOU should be the least bit thankful that I've helped you get to and from YOUR job." That boss is psychotic.

It’s amazing that The Great Resignation has been going on for months and month and employers still won’t get it through their heads that they need us more than we need them, and that their bullying tactics don’t work on people who make minimum wage

With jobs so abundant, the threat of losing your job is such an empty threat. "If you don't come in, you're fired!!!" "Nice👍"

So, the worst wage theft I experienced was in the Army, for almost a year my pay did not match my pay grade. I was an E-5 getting paid an E-4, which includes Base pay, housing allowance, and food allowance. It took me and my S1 (administration) telling the pay office we'll be going to IG (Inspecting General), the equivalent to any inspection board for everything in the Army, for them to finally process my promotion. I enjoyed a HUGE back pay and live a little bit more comfortably with my pay raise because I was already pinching to save large amounts but now, I sometimes have more money than I know what to do with. Moral of the story: Always threaten or go straight with any inspection board/enforcement agency to get you hard earned money.

Man, that paint company sounds paranoid as hell.

"Manifesting failure" story, dont know what country it is in, but im sure this is unlawful termination and OP should have taken em to court, cause fuck em.

When RSlash was talking about supply and demand, my dad does this all the time. If people don't want to work on certain days, he has to pay them more because his job requires people to be working at all times.

Economists and employers like to say there's a labor shortage but they're wrong, there's an abundance of people who can work, it's just that none of them want to work for poverty wages and subhuman treatment!

I worked for a bank as a teller 20+ years ago and we had 10k go missing. There was an internal investigator that was nick named "The Dragon Lady". She had a death cold stare that would send chills down your spine. We joked that she missed her calling and should do interviews for the FBI.

The labour laws in the US are fn ridiculous! So glad to be in Europe where employees are better protected

The story about the waitress has some stuff missing from it. The guy who gave her the tip took his tip back after he found out that she'd have to share it and gave it to her after her later on and after she was fired he was the one who started the go fund me. Also she found another job so her boss tried to screw her but she pulled a "PRO-GAMER STRAT" and turned 💩 to gold I hope I got all the details in order. I do know she got the full tip from the guy but can't remember if it was before or after she was fired.

A "pay chaser" is an employee that get hired goes thru the process of being trained, workes until they are being disiplined for not working. Then gets fired. This happens in about 3 weeks.

“WHY WONT MY EMPLOYEES WORK FOR FREE ???????????” Because they need money Lol

I've had bosses like this in the past. I almost got fired because of the "customer is always right" mentality. A customer told a store assistant manager that I slammed her paint cans on the counter and threw the paint sticks at her face. Mind you, there was a security camera pointed at the counter. The manager didnt even hear my side. She sent me to her office and apologized to the customer for my behavior and gave her 20% off (the employee discount fyi) and I think she even got a free $10 gift card. My ass got chewed out and she was about to fire me when the store manager and my department manager walked in. Store manager told me I could go back to my department with my manager and needed a word with the assistant store manager. My department manager saw what happened and had the store manager watch the security camera footage. Sure enough, what the customer claimed never happened. The assistant store manager ended up getting written up for giving an employee discount to a customer. They're only allowed to offer customers 5% off product and a $10 free gift card. That assistant store manager did not like me. That was unfortunately not the last incident with her.

"Employees are just 'pay chasers'." If you think there's something bizarre about employees wanting to be paid as much as they can get for their work ... do you charge customers for your coffee? You do?! Why, you're just a profit chaser! I'm a firm believer in capitalism. I think it's ridiculous when people criticize a business owner for wanting to make money. But it's equal ridiculous when a business owner complains about employees wanting to make money.

the amount of business owners who are surprised that employees want to be pait is staggering. Do they actually think this is some kind of hobby for people?

US is a wild effing west when it comes to employee rights and how easily they get fired. These stories boiled my blood

04:50 pretty sure you can sue that compoany for copyright infringement as well. I'd consult a lawyer for extra scorched earth 07.35 yep, that's illegal. hire a lawyer, you'll get some serious pay out 11:00 Oh look, another illegal activity. Maybe not in states, but it is in Estonia. Workplace Inspection would have a field day here

I’d love to show up to “pay chasers” lady’s coffee shop and make a huge order. Coffee, pastries, etc. When it comes time to pay I’d say, “Wow, why can’t you just give me my order? Don’t you have a coffee shop because you’re passionate about coffee? Or this just a money grab to you?!”

"Pay us more, it's real simple!" I wish it was that easy, but you know that they don't want to because it'll affect how much money they'll be getting or something.

That “tHeFt Of MeRcHaNdIsE” story made me mad. OP may have a case for wrongful termination.

"Shit on their desk and say you're giving them the other half of the sandwich." 🤣 I'm dead 🤣

The tips thing got real infamous real fast because the story actually makes it infinitely worse. It was that it was a huge group that had two waitresses serve them. At the end of their meal, all the diners gave them $100 each and the sort of head of the group said it was to be split evenly between them to the manager himself. Then he pulled the infamous stunt and the group rightfully got on his ass over it. The girls did get their tip only for him to turn around and fire her over it, leading to the GoFundMe

The guy that has to drive his boss. Drive him several towns away from where he lives. Tell him to get out walk home and quit.

No one wants to pay gas money? wtf? Anyway, OP in the car ride story should use those 4 hours in the middle of the day to find a better job!

Learning to put your foot down at work is one of the most empowering feelings. Worked in a kitchen for a university under a union, contract and all, late nights into early mornings and I lived an hour away on a good weather day, manager's thought they'd save costs by making all workers stay and help clean and close until all stations were done, but absolutely would not pay overtime. I laughed at my manager and said "My contract has me working until 12:30 and responsible for my station only unless you want to pay me overtime, I'm going home." The only reply I got was an angry walk away and a "I hate union contracts." It felt good

Imagine sending an investigator from Cincinnati because your employee uses their employee discount

As someone who was suddenly fired just before Christmas despite never being told I was doing anything wrong these stories are rather reassuring. I've been blaming myself the whole time when in reality companies just fucking suck.

employee:*pays for the product they sold.* management:"filthy thief. you stole that. you're fired."

As the granddaughter of a retired Sherwin Williams I'm able to get 30% off so you were set up.

OP: "So I got fired and I was making 50 videos for them and struggled to find work" Rslash: And I took that personally

I get that it's the OP's material, but if the videos were made on company time with company resources, and they don't have anything in writing saying that the OP owns the material, then they maybe out of luck.

This subreddit is so necessary but also sooooo infuriating... Argh!

I was kind of miffed about working this last Christmas Eve, but then I heard I would be getting paid time and a half that day. I wasn't as annoyed working that day

The first one sounds like my job. The boss has a “you’ll do it or else” attitude. He thinks he can send you to work at any location he controls at an hours he demands. Even if you say no. It’s led to LOTS of people quitting, and he hasn’t gotten it through his thick skull that you can’t treat people like that, for the shitty pay he offers especially and dealing with his yelling and temper tantrums on top of it. He’s short staffed because of it and jobs are in plentiful supply. He’s not the brightest. I’ll be among the people leaving if he tries it with me.

The Arkansas waitress thing reminds me of something that happened with my tip when I worked at Panera at the height of the pandemic in March 2020. Shitty manager accused me of stealing $50 from the register which was actually a tip that was given to me by a customer at drive thru. After me and my coworker had to explain to him that I did not steal the money, he proceeded to “teach us kids a lesson” (most of us were teens, I was 17) by taking all of our tips for himself, refused letting us clock out until we admit someone stole from the register. We all just left. Never got that $50 back. Edit: Autocorrect error

I'm trying to become a full-time artist and listening to these during my crappy, unrelated-to-my-passion-day-job is mighty satisfying.

rSlash: People don't work as baristas because they like the smell of coffee! Me: My first job being a dishwasher at a breakfast restaurant mostly because I love the smell of bacon cooking!...they did pay me well enough though

“Why is there a labor shortage and why can we get employees to come work for us?” Well guess this answered that for me

most of this seems its related to how dumb working in an “at will” area is (you can get fired for no reason legally) 😭

Slashy back at it again with a daily upload. Love that for us viewers.

i love these companies penny pinching when it comes to their employees, but will throw out unused stuff all the time... disgusting

No wonder my crew says I'm a good boss, when this is my competition. All I really do is treat them like people who have lives outside of the company. They seem to be mucj happier for it, imagine that, lol.

The whole PPP loans vs. student loans debacle has been living in my head rent free.

The last story is the exact reason I don't bring lunch to work. I'd rather pay a few bucks for food from the store than deal with a lunch thief.

Rslash needs to read books on audible

When you think you -need- a job, you, in fact, don't need it as much as you think.

The amount of people who quit at the fast food place in my town right before finals is scary. One of my friends quit to go be on a modeling contract and the owner keeps trying to get her come back

The waitress story: I was listening to that story on the radio and apparently the issue was very poorly explained. She DID wait on a large group who tipped her 4k, but she didnt share the tips with every waiter or waitress. The big party had bartenders and busboys and THEY were tipped out for helping her. Then she called the guys who tipped her and complained about the tip and then she got fired. That's how the news explained it anyway.

I quit my night job this year, we weren't allowed holiday in December and were meant to work all over the Christmas period bar Christmas day. We already were paid awful for night shift work and they were offering nothing in compensation, no thanks, byeeee

So many of these firing stories would make for great wrongful termination lawsuits, it's killing me

I'm glad I've never had an issue with my supervisors and managers. Though, I've almost quit as my coworker had drove me insane when working together in one place. I'm not the only one everyone has had issues with this guy. He's pissed off so many that my supervisor almost went up to where we were working to give him a row after my second run in with him.

These managers literally think of their workers as slaves its infuriating

What people fail to realize is that federal law dictates that tipped employees if the total of their hourly wage and tips does not equal the minimum wage their employer has to pay them half again of what the minimum wage is. So say the minimum wage is $12 an hour. If the total of their wages and tips equal out to $11.99 then because their pay did not equal up to minimum wage their boss has to pay them an additional $6 an hour. So in that case they would essentially be making $18 an hour. Which is a hell of a lot more than most jobs pay and a lot more than a lot of servers deserve. I would know I work in food service for years and I never felt like I deserved more than ten bucks an hour. And that is federal labor law so if you are a server and your boss isn't honoring that you need to report them to the labor board

Ever heard the term "wageslave"? It's a real thing and if you look up all the papers on it, you'll do yourself a big favor! Great stories today really relevant to today's world. Thank you for all the work you do to bring them to us. Really appreciated.

So, I have this boss, who really sucks. He’s been putting most of his work on me, we’re understaffed and I’m doing the work of 4 people. I’ve told him over and over and over again that we need to hire more people, because I can’t do the impossible, I can’t make schedules for about 120 people at the same time as I write reports on the progress of about 120 people and call them all and have seminars for all of them. So my boss told me to Make things up, I did, cos I didn’t want to lose my job. Meanwhile my boss is embezzeling money from the company, and now we’re under investigation for embezzlement and my boss is trying to frame me. Luckily, I have a recording of my boss admitting to embezzlement and other illegal stuff he’s done. So if he tries anything, he’ll be absolutely screwed.

Maybe it is unfair for employers to deal with people like Doreen Ford

Me expecting awesome "I quit" moments, What I actually get: People getting mistreated, Me: I didn't sign up for this.

I got sent home from Hooters once and ended up getting fired (also for being “late” at 4:59 even though we had to show up fifteen unpaid minutes early so technically I wasn’t late) because my co workers hair extensions were tangled in the back and I came up behind her and tried to fix it for her and she’s like stahhhp and I was like “sorry it’s ratty I was trying to help” and she fast walks crying to the manager 😳 I really thought her and I were friends and that it would’ve been nice to help geez never again now you can go around with a booger for all I care

RSlash : the vigilante who helps those who have been screwed over ❤ I frickin love how he offers a job to OP and in all of his videos, he helps anyway he can, with advice, critique or even job offers.

So, the story about the guy who gave rides to his boss had an update from OP.

I listen to these whenever I'm in the bath or shower. I can always find a laugh when people are being stupid in these posts.

I saw that on the news about the waitress.. I was floored.. The guy that gave her that tip came back into the restaurant, took the tip back and then gave her cash since they wanted to take it..

When I worked at a restaurant the bar and the servers had to tip everybody out, that included the hostesses (me and a few others). The bar always did but there were a few waiters that would either not do it at all or give a penny. We got so mad to the point we stopped seating in their section (approval from the manager). They started giving us our tips. We were the ones sitting people in their sections, don’t screw over the people that bring the people with tips. Owner didn’t like us either and when we all quit he tried to keep our tips from us

second story OP definitely should have sued that company. Not only for the drive but also for *HOURS* of unpaid labor, especially if they were putting out 50 videos a day

I absolutely love these anti work videos because I love hearing rslash go off on late stage capitalism. That said. I kind of wonder if this sub isn't like ... Raising his blood pressure to unhealthy levels? Like I love it but take care of yourself man. Also Hi Unnamed Editor!

I am so glad most of this employer behaviour is flat out illegal where I live

I think Dr. K from Healthy Gamer GG said it right when he said "we aren't so much as having a labor shortage, as we are having people who realize they have better opportunities and more choices for work". Especially with people realizing that they can easily work remotely from home, that means you can be employed anywhere so there have never been more opportunities for people to find the kind of work that they really want and for the amount of pay that they want.

Listening to these stories, I suddenly find a surprisingly convincing argument for the world being so backwards and fucked up.

Sub aged poorly It was nice while it lasted... At least now we have r/workreform

There's a reason I get paid 200% on holidays and sundays, cuz no one wants m. I do tho, free double money, let's goooo

Honestly I recently moved back to the US after 20 years in Europe- the lack of employee rights scares the holy crap out of me. Living with constant anxiety about 'on demand' employment and employers with the power to deny your unemployment just sucks..

Thank for Anit-work for ended year and bring up to get many workers a lot of hope and booted up.. Don't ever allowed them taking you down!!

Someone stealing my food is my biggest pet peeve. I would have walked into that meeting and tore my boss a new one for stealing my lunch. I give a flying fuck. That’s unacceptable.

HELLO ANTIWORK VIDEO I LOVE YOU

RSlash : the vigilante who helps those who have been screwed over ❤ I frickin love how he offers a job to OP and in all of his videos, he helps anyway he can, with advice, critique or even job offers.

Thanks again rslash I had ptsd flashbacks for 2 days and nights, you and my doggie Ginnie helped me through again, thanks 😊 I'll try to not sound like a choosing begger when I say Hey rslash, how bout some Free Therapy!!!!!

There's not really a labor shortage. Unemployment is almost back to pre-covid levels (4.2% currently). There's a shortage of people who will do thankless jobs for little pay (minimum wage) and/or no benefits. That's just called having self-worth and companies that make billions in profit being cheapskates.