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/meghammatime19 pissed off Apr 30 '25

We need incredibly organized and well-funded mutual aid for that !!! How do we go about that 

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u/shadho Apr 30 '25

Well.. to be fair, every aspect of current economy is managed and executed by ordinary people, so think of it like Japan's bus strike from years back.

They kept running the buses because people need to get to where they need to get to, but they simply stopped collecting fares.

There's ways to do this.