“Efficient Workers Get Punished With More Work”: 30 Times This Instagram Account Tastefully Called Out Corporate Greed
How often do you hear "no one wants to work"? Saying this phrase has become a running trend among people in power, claiming that everyone has collectively decided to walk away from their jobs. But the truth is, millions of employees have had enough of being overworked, underpaid, and undervalued by their employers.
People are simply sick and tired of being exploited. They demand that companies improve their experience and ask bosses to respect their wants and needs but are faced with corporate greed instead. And the Instagram account we will call Eff You I Quit is here to bring it all out in the open.
"The labor market is a mess," the creator wrote in the description, aiming to shine a light on poor management and have workers' voices heard. Below, you will find some illuminating posts and our interview with the founder of the account, Bizarre Lazar. So continue scrolling and be sure to share your thoughts in the comments!
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"I launched the account last October after seeing how much upheaval was going on in the labor force," Lazar told Bored Panda. "I found it pretty uplifting to see stories of people saying 'screw this' to horrible bosses and terrible working conditions."
According to him, a lot of people were blaming stimulus checks and unemployment and screaming "no one wants to work anymore". This naturally angered Lazar and made them want to start highlighting why and how these people were wrong.
With 73k followers on Instagram and more than 100K on Twitter, the account gets a lot of submissions from people sharing their experiences. "It’s amazing. Definitely overwhelming at times. I have a few hundred DM’s still left unanswered and more coming in all the time," Lazar said. "All of it is appreciated and I’m extremely grateful people keep reaching out."
The creator revealed that the people who joined him on this project are incredible. "They are super active, communicative, informative, and supportive. People tell me all the time that they keep learning so much from my page and truth be told, I’m learning a ton from them as well. It’s a journey and a process."
"I’ve had countless people reach out saying that my account was the last push they needed to finally get out of their bad jobs. The response has been humbling, to say the least," he said and added that sometimes it takes knowing you’re not alone to take the leap. "I’m very grateful I’ve been able to help facilitate that for them."
The US economy is accompanied by a brainwashing of believing that success is always possible if you work hard and that any failure is the result of your own weakness including a microscopic salary which is therefore not worthy of being increased: just work harder. But I think fewer and fewer people are fooled by that cult.
And the same people who gripe like crazy about the "welfare state" turn a blind eye when these companies ask for government assistance (tax breaks, subsidies, etc.).
Lazar noted that for decades, employees have been viewed as expendable: "Just an unfortunate but necessary costly line item that affects a company’s bottom line and takes a chunk of the profits away from shareholders. I think the pandemic is changing that. Not necessarily in the viewpoint of said companies—their end-all and legal allegiances lie strictly with shareholders—but within the employees themselves."
Chances are, you've already heard of the term the Great Resignation which describes the mass exodus of employees leaving their jobs after Covid broke out. Nearly 69 million people quit, were laid off, or were discharged in the US last year, with 47.4 million walking away from their jobs voluntarily. Workers started looking for better opportunities, finding themselves at an advantage in this tight labor market.
"People are fed up with decades of mistreatment and poverty wages and unless these corporations are willing to provide fair and equitable accommodations, they will have a hard time keeping people on staff," Lazar argued. "It’s a buyers’ market now. People know they have way more options than employers do and they are taking advantage of it."
"The pendulum has shifted in favor of the labor force, finally, and it’s incredible to see people rise up and capitalize on it. The landscape is changing."
You could do your best and barely get rewarded, but do your best on a badly managed project and you're treated like you're the one running the company into the ground.
There more than few jerks in this case. The news orgs and Walgreens.
According to Pew Research Center, feeling disrespected at work is one of the top reasons Americans quit their jobs last year. While it may seem that more companies are starting to carry the label of "toxic work environment", Lazar believes they have always been this way.
"It’s just the nature of the beast, at least here in the US. It’s how we’ve always operated. Only more recently, within the last 20 years or so, have we started seeing obscene disparities in wealth with top brass making 1000 times more than people at the bottom of the organization. This unbalance is a big part of why people are fed up. And companies are slowly responding."
You see, they realized that without knowledgeable and loyal staff, they are in a fine mess. "The better you treat your employees, the better they treat you, go figure. Employees can be brand advocates or your worst nightmare. Corporations need to act accordingly."
"More and more companies are starting to come around with higher wages and better benefits. It will take a while before the total soul-sucking corporate mantra dies if it ever does, but at least we’re starting to move in the right direction."
Constitutionally speaking, the act of taxing them does violate the representation clause and should therefore be declared unconstitutional.
However, shining a light on these issues might help bring change. "I wouldn’t be here if I didn’t," the creator said. "Movements don’t take place in the darkness. And labor is having one hell of a movement right now. It takes people talking about these issues for them to ever sort themselves out. Silence in this regard is not a virtue."
Lazar stressed the importance of people understanding their worth. "Work relationships are like any personal relationship. If there isn’t balance, mutual respect, and understanding then it’s a toxic relationship and no one wins."
Teaching is the worst paid profession for the amount of work you have (including emotional labour).
"Don’t allow yourself to be taken advantage of and don’t trap yourself in an abusive relationship," he suggested. "You can’t grow as a person if the organization you dedicate half of your waking life to is holding you back. There are tons of resources available to workers. You have rights and protections. Allowing bad bosses to treat you unethically or have downright illegal practices has consequences."
"Know your worth, protect your rights, and better yourself and your situation. You’re not alone in this struggle. It’s always scary to put yourself out there and change things up but in the end, it will always be worth it," Lazar concluded.
That would mean the value of oil would have to drop and companies would raise their prices to compensate. And investors would reduce investing in oil. I don't think we're pointing the blame at the right people. It's more than just oil prices. Every resource is increasing. Lumber, paper, meat, metals, water, energy, gas, transportation, produce, you name it. Somewhere down the line someone is living in luxury without a care and laughing at us minions.
Just look at the CEO to median employee income for corporate america. Ranges from 150 to 1 to 500 to 1! But the interesting thing is really the median employee income: again, from $30K/yr to $150K, depending on the industry. Would love to see the same ratio for federal, state and local governments.
It's hard to believe but there are businesses in North America that treat their employees well. You just never hear about them because they never have to advertise for workers. When they do need new employees they have enough resumes on file to cover them for the next 10 or 20 years.
One of the biggest reasons I quit working for a certain armored truck company. I had a family emergency and gave them 2 hours notice that I wasn't coming in. I had to make the decision to pull the plug for my uncle since I was NOK. Then a month later I had to go to ER because of my gallbladder. Manager called not to ask if I was OK, but if it was under 30 days since I called out last because of my uncle. Only called to see if she could write me up.
This reminds me of my former employer who, after cancelling the yearly (relatively small) summer party and almost cancelling the christmas party, went ahead and swapped our christmas bonus (in the form of a gift package or something of the sort) for a bottle of 3 euro water from a brand they owned.
Consulting: There may not be money in the solution, but there is in prolonging the problem.
My husband had a very sweet boss who really appreciated him. She approved a generous early retirement plan for him ... a week before she left to take a better job. We will love her forever. ❤️
I've just stopped showing up. Didn't give them the dignity of a notice. They called maybe once or twice on the first day and that was it. So, didn't look back. I assume the feeling was mutual.
Instead of just quitting, people need to have a long talk with their employer/supervisor telling them exactly how they have disappointed you over and over again. Make it a reverse interview where you calmly explain why you have sought employment elsewhere in full detail, and then before you walk out, tell them they are fired from your employment
Despite the fact that we've worked from home successfully for 2 years now, my employer thinks it's important to come back to the office so we can "collaborate". WTF? My Boomer parents think that's a great idea because I need to "get out of the house more." Right. Like sitting in a windowless office for 8 hours a day is going to be great for my morale? There are many (smart!) companies out there who have gone completely virtual and they're hiring.
If you have to lie about your vacations then there's a serious problem with respect to boundaries at your company. Couldn't work there.
I was losing all faith in humanity... And then gen z showed up 🤗💗💗
Does anyone even understand the gibberish on resumes explaining the most basic of tasks? It's sad when you have to go to the job resource centre and have someone tell you your resume is too simple and spoon-feeds you every word in your job description to make it more appealing to some hotshot who's just going to toss it in the trash.
Olive oil will cost you too much. Skip the olive oil. Just shove it as-is!
This is just the business not wanting to close and deeming themselves essential
Heck...I was out for a week with emergency surgery to remove gall stones and my gall bladder and my fricken boss is calling my house telling my parents I would be fired if I didn't get back to work. That was until my father went to visit him at his place of work and told him that if I returned to work too early and became seriously ill or injured for checking out of the hospital against doctor's orders, that he had a very good lawyer and a reporter of the local paper that would be getting involved. Not only did my boss back off, I never got yelled at by him at work again.
Does that include retroactively? Cause I still have nightmares about a job I left 30 years ago.
Do you require them to be present and active as part of their job description? Then yes, you should be paying them.
Wouldn't have to buy lunch if coworkers didn't have sticky hands.
It would have taken less time away from work to just print "I am jealous because I have no friends"
LOLOLOLOL I'm almost 40 and have $0 saved for retirement. I don't make enough to save anything.
To bad kids have to suffer due to the lousy way teachers get treated.
Hey, vending machines are dangerous, they kill more people than sharks every year.
And all just to block that kid that keeps tweeting his flight plans! 😋
I have fantasized about doing exactly this, more times than I care to admit...
I think I've found the original article, which refers to a "now infamous email". However, there's a whole world outside Kansas and the US to which this headline alone means absolutely nothing. So here's the link I found https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en/article/4aw8p9/kansas-applebees-leaked-email
From this I deduce the employee has been tardy too often and has only started working on it since a week and is kinda rude to customers. That deserves a talking-to, in my opinion.
The two most insulting things in this article, #1 Bloomberg thinks you’re poor if you make less than $300k, and #2 you have to ‘buy’ a subscription to Bloomberg to read the actual article.
Sometimes I think the whole working class should file for bankruptcy at the same time. Sort that out !
According to the Australian government, they'd prefer us to die rather than reach an attainable retirement age.
If you want a 2 week notice when an employee is quitting, provide a 2 week notice when you're firing someone.
New Rules! Any bonuses given out should start at the bottom of the workforce, moving upwards. The bonuses will be the same percentage of the persons wage not matter what level they are in the company. CEO gets a bonus worth 50% of their yearly, then the janitor gets a bonus worth 50% of their yearly wage. The highest level in the company is to be paid no more than 100 times the wage of their lowest paid employee. 100 times is a lot right? Wrong apparently as in the mega corporate world some of them get 1000 times or more in their wage packet. If your lowest employee earns 25,000 a year, and the boss is struggling on 2,500,000 then the boss is a greedy twatbasket and needs to be rid of.
Wells Fargo is doing the same; telling people that everyone has to go back into the office but not having a permanent desk. I and a co-worker have been working from home for 8 and 15 years. We are 3 months from RETIRING and told that we may get fired for not going back. Well, they can fire me if that is how they treat long-term employees..
New Rules! Any bonuses given out should start at the bottom of the workforce, moving upwards. The bonuses will be the same percentage of the persons wage not matter what level they are in the company. CEO gets a bonus worth 50% of their yearly, then the janitor gets a bonus worth 50% of their yearly wage. The highest level in the company is to be paid no more than 100 times the wage of their lowest paid employee. 100 times is a lot right? Wrong apparently as in the mega corporate world some of them get 1000 times or more in their wage packet. If your lowest employee earns 25,000 a year, and the boss is struggling on 2,500,000 then the boss is a greedy twatbasket and needs to be rid of.
Wells Fargo is doing the same; telling people that everyone has to go back into the office but not having a permanent desk. I and a co-worker have been working from home for 8 and 15 years. We are 3 months from RETIRING and told that we may get fired for not going back. Well, they can fire me if that is how they treat long-term employees..
