Month: April 2022

Hey everyone! Just wanted to ask for a research paper I'm writing, has anyone left “mainstream” employment for gig apps such as Door Dash or Uber Eats?

We've all seen it. We've all felt it. Where are you at and what's the housing/rent market like there?

My company uses the Bradford factor (BF) to assess your sickness absence patern. Basically the formula is BF=hn² Where h is the number of work hours missed (can also be days depending on the company) and n is the number of absence periods this rolling 12 month period. My work has the first “trigger level” where they review your sickness absence at a BF of 1000. What's the bit problem here you ask? Well if (like me) you have recurring problems that require sickness absence then the fact n is squared screws you very quickly. The other issue is people pushing themselves to get back to work quicker, then not quite being right suddenly again rack up their number of absences rather quickly. I get that it's an attempt to put some objective measure into the process but it just doesn't work for a lot of people who find themselves…

This happend a bunch of years ago but I only found out about /antiwork recently. Coming from a store position me and a other people from different stores applied for a office job within the same company. And what do you know, me and 3 others got hired. In the new position I quickly picked up on the skills that were required and it wasnt before long that I was doing double the work even compared to the older staff (computer skills are hard you know) and even started training additional new hires. I welcomed all the extra tasks left and right because the work was so freaking dull and mostly pointless it was soul crushing. A couple months in everybody was happy with my work and the only feedback I had gotten was that my posture wasnt proactive and I should sit more upright in my chair (this seriously…

And it’s because they must document at home or off-the-clock. They either get no time allotted during the day to document, or they get insufficient time to document for the large caseloads. You know what’s at stake if they don’t document in a timely manner? Your healthcare being reimbursed by insurance. Your healthcare providers don’t want to fail you, and this is being exploited by their employers. So their employers jam-pack their caseloads which forces the employees to document off-hours.

So my work sent me an email terminating my contract while I was on the first holiday I’d taken in a year and a half and then four hours later sent a email saying it had been a mistake. It seems management really do just copy and paste for a living, my name was in a different font and size to really hammer home this email is a boilerplate. Luckily I don’t check my emails while on holiday or I would’ve really panicked!