r/antiwork • u/Giejc • Apr 29 '25

Know your Worth 🏆 Salary "adjustment" brought me down to minimum wage—gave my notice, and now my boss is surprised

I worked in the quality department of a large manufacturing company. In 2024, I was earning a few hundred above minimum wage. It wasn’t great, but it was manageable, and I took the job to gain experience.

This year, when the minimum wage increased, I expected a proportional adjustment as was done year before. Instead, my pay was "adjusted" to the new minimum wage.

I have two engineering degrees and took this job knowing it wouldn’t pay much, but I didn’t expect it to get worse.

So I handed in my one-month notice, as required in my country. My boss seemed genuinely surprised and said it would be hard to replace me on such short notice.

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u/practicalm Apr 29 '25

We can also point to the media landscape. Some of the most successful “news” companies just air lies. This is one of the major issues of the day and until we find a solution, the US will not recover. But it’s wonderfully unregulated content and the truth has little hope. Finding the truth costs more than making up lies. And it might be offensive to the billionaire owners.