Month: April 2022

We’ve been having staff issues for years and it’s just gotten worse and worse. Two people quit in one week, they then decided to close indefinitely. Gave employees and parents (it’s a childcare center) one weeks notice … we were supposed to get about 30 more paid days off for holidays and summer/winter breaks before the year is up. Now no one is going to be paid out any of that.

Today was my last day at my job! I can't wait to wake up tomorrow and just lay there while telling my work clothes, hair dryer and badge to F off while I remain in snuggled up in PJs!!! I'll probably get up around 2:00 to make some coffee and go hang poolside. The sweet taste of freedom!!!!!!

So I really don't know what to do for the most part in terms of how to get paid. I worked at this gas ran by sketchy ass people, I wasn't getting paid enough, I barely could bring myself to charge people $3 for a single bottle of water so I ended up just not showing up anymore. Payday goes by, I texted the lady who trained me and she asked me if I got my check in the mail, which I didn't so I try getting ahold of the lady who hired me(Kim) and nothing for a few days. I had to threaten turning them in for not paying me just to get a text back telling me I had to fill out a W4 before they could send me a check. I went in the next day filled it out and it took until earlier today for my…

So I work at Mcdonalds in the UK, recently they have been sending me on break too early into the shift. I do long 9+ hours a day, but theres an issue that there sending me on break too early. Managers are walking around with their list of people who are in today, their hours, finish times, etc. I start working, hardly anything is going on, not many customers and 1 hour into the shift I get sent on break and managers say “I need to get your break out of the way” and that in itself I find upsetting. It’s called break for a reason, not “getting it out of the way” as soon as possible. I explain I’ve only been in for an hour and I have a long shift ahead, but the manager dosn’t even look at me waves their hand at me to go. I might…

I seen someone else got hired at Walmart like me and after seeing their comments, I’m freaking out. I accepted a job at Walmart because they’re hiring and my savings are running out (currently 1.7k rn) but it’s for front end and my anxiety is pretty bad but I usually stay at jobs until my breaking point (usually 3-12 months) and I have orientation tomorrow morning but I’m panicking in the back of my head for $12/hr. I currently live with my parents and I’m frugal which is why my savings lasted so long, but I was tired of feeling like a moocher (I helped with bills but not as much as I would’ve liked.) I honestly hate working with customers at previous jobs as I’ve been in customer service for 5+ years and applied for another position, backroom which I would’ve loved but I was offered front end so…

Need opinions everyone please. I was informed today that I failed my pre employment drug screen but was told I could pay out of pocket to retake it by end of day Friday (tomorrow). Why would a company allow my to retake if I failed? Isn’t that the whole point of the screening?

I'll believe there's a massive anti-work movement for real when there is a labor shortage for farm workers, or better when, in the alternative, other people cooperate enough to free them very miserable degrees of wage slavery which they necessarily cling to. We're all in this together or it's not “antiwork” it's “mooch off the work of others”. We can do it. In other words, anti-work needs some concepts and practices about how to do, in practice, socially necessary work without relying on wage slavery and jobs done by self or others.

“Youre just lazy! Thats why you dont wanna work!” I actually have always loved work, ive loved learning, being active, talking to new people. My problem now like many though is work is only a means to survival. How I pay for claim to space to exist. Im not lazy im exhausted, I dont mind giving my time and effort for my community I just wish my community could deliver for me

Was I supposed to be able to predict the pandemic that contributed to the changes in demand in the film and advertising industry? Was I supposed to quit school early to get work before the pandemic? Even though all the employers seem to want trained employees. Was I supposed to train for something outside of my skill set and natural abilities that wouldn’t be affected by a pandemic? Was I supposed to go against my morals and just be an abuser that manipulates and takes advantage of people to gain power? People keep saying it’s my fault. My bad decisions. What did I do wrong? I went to school like the boomers told me to. I did the retail work and compromised my health. I even put myself out there and tried the freelance thing. I feel like I’ve done everything I was supposed to. But it’s still somehow my…