Month: March 2022

Picture this; you wake up in a fabulous mood at 6 AM. It is already sunny and 75° out. Knowing that it’s going to be a fantastic day outside you get a little sad because you have to go in to work. You get to work and your manager confronts you. Your numbers need to be up, you weren’t doing this right, you need to do this now. Nagging you over unimportant shit. You take a deep breath. You think about how beautiful it was waking up with no stress and you let your boss finish speaking. You say to them “ It’s such a beautiful day outside I think I’m going to go enjoy it. I quit.” Then you just leave. Later you need to think of the future but for now you go out and enjoy your day. Enjoy the freedom of nobody bossing you around, no anxiety…

I work at HomeGoods and for the holidays it was a nightmare. It's a small store and we were getting 5 trucks a week with over 1400 pieces on them (we can handle 2 trucks averaging 600 pieces per week). Our “backroom coordinator”, just a fake position for a poor kid that takes the blame for things not getting done in the back with the promise of authority and higher wages but actually gets neither, walked out multiple times due to the stress. Our store manager would come back and bitch at us at least every hour and tell us we weren't going fast enough. She would make condescending remarks and say passive agressive comments like “boy it sure is moving slower than molasses in the winter back here”. We were all making $11 an hour, only because that's what new hires walked in at and they had to match…

I have a feeling that current events, such as the invasion of Ukraine by Russia will have most viewing r/antiwork as well as the newer subreddit that recently spawned after the Fox news interview r/workreform as evil communist propaganda / anti-capitalist propaganda and only drive people more towards the same corporations that had once overworked and underpaid these people. People are simply seeking an alternative to work where they aren't literally dying, mandatory working 80+ hours a week at 1.5x pay, proper work-life balance. There's a good following of members on Reddit though we still need to earn followers outside of Reddit — those are going to be harder since those are the follower I am talking about in this post. The type of followers that live in Small Town, Iowa with a population of 2,974. I promise if a single person from a town like that saw any of…

This happened almost a decade ago. I was working for a small local marketing company that paid us via direct deposit. One pay day morning I woke up, checked my account, saw that I hadn’t been paid, and immediately texted my boss and said (politely) that I hadn’t been paid and wasn’t coming in until I was. I got a call a minute later and was told I’d have a physical check in my hand as soon as I walked through the door. I knew it was just an innocent error/mistake, but homie don’t play that.

SOOO after a talk with my boss yesterday, it turns out I am taking too many bathroom breaks. I take medication that makes me very thirst; therefore, I have to pee a lot. I usually take 1-3 minutes every hour or two. Apparently that is too much time off of the phones. I asked if I should just wear an adult diaper. I was told “well, I won't tell you what to do.” So, I have bought my first pair of adult diapers so I can keep this job. (I need the money and am looking elsewhere in the meantime) To preface this, I have a disability and we have been on forced overtime for 2 months…and will be for the foreseeable future. I asked for a MINOR accommodation (just 40 a week under ADA reasonable accommodation). Boy was that a mistake. Now I can't take ANY breaks outside our…

You see it in so many ways. When meeting someone new, we usually ask them what they do for work way before we ask them what they do for pleasure. People will give someone automatic respect and trust without knowing the person based on a job title. It has almost become embarrassing for women to say that they are a stay at home mother. As though they aren’t valuable or respectable unless they have a career. I think the majority of us are still okay with working. We just don’t want work to be the top priority in our lives and we want recognition for the sacrifices we are making(not spending time with our families, friends and personal passions).