Month: April 2022

Hello all antiworkers! First off, apologies for formatting as I'm on mobile. I work in public transportation for a fairly large system in the western US, in a right to work state. I was just promoted from light rail operator to light rail system supervisor, and was thrown into the midst of a unionizing effort. The operators are represented by the Amalgamated Transportation Union (ATU), but supervisors have never had a union. Last year, the teamsters opened a dialog, and we are set to vote in the near future. This leads me to a question for current teamsters members. What are your experiences with the teamsters as a whole? Have they been able to deliver on their promises? Is their bargaining and arbitration strength as good as they are leading us to believe? TL/DR Public transportation supervisors voting to unionize with the teamsters. Are they worth it?

Dream company didn’t offer me the position so I had to accept an offer from company b who has less than stellar reviews. They are already asking me to do a heavy load of free work before I even begin (building a detailed resume to pitch to clients, record videos of me answering questions, detailing every single project I’ve ever done to date) and I already feel like this is such a bad sign. I am not even on their payroll yet and they are making weird demands of me. I’m in a lot of debt and will need to move apartments in two months so this job was really the only way to be able to stay ahead of defaulting on bills and maybe find a decent apt in a market that has exploded in price. I’m depressed and just need to somehow find it in me to get…

I’ve had to turn down taking others shifts multiple times, although I have done others before. But I never feel actually want to take peoples shifts, I just feel like a bad person when I turn them down. But when I don’t HAVE to work, I’m not gonna work. I feel bad but, I have a life too

I began working for Orange Theory Fitness earlier this year, going into training in late January. Sexual Assault On my first day out of training, a client grabbed my ass. She did the same to many other people that day. The Head Coach who was training me at the time did nothing about any of it. I've suffered 9 sexual assaults in my life, so I don't take this action lightly when it happens to me or to others. I reported to my supervisors and co-workers immediately that a client just sexually assaulted me. They responded, “that's just how she is, she does that.” I reported it many times and was always met with the same answer. They went on to ask me to pick up more hours. They presented it to me as “we need someone to cover all these hours, if you grab 2 or 3, or all…

This isn't really my story to tell but I think its message is prudent, so I'm going to leave a lot of potentially identifying information out. My “friend” recently quit their job. It's a very important one and very public-facing, it's something that every single one of us will encounter at one point in our lives or another and owned by a massive conglomerate. It wasn't a good environment, the management situation was appalling, they were constantly struggling for the resources to properly provide for their customers but they did their best with what they had. Constantly they were told that this massive fuck-off corporation couldn't afford the absolute most simple things they needed to run the business. They were the top rated person in the business by far and one of the most renown by their customer base, as well as the most senior at their location (though that…

My town is possibly gonna be on fire soon and the only thing really keeping me from leaving is the fact that the power in town hasn’t gone out. If it does then I’ll be free to leave because my work won’t have power tomorrow and thus it won’t be a “no call/no show” and besides I don’t have any time to use, sick leave etc. because I caught the flu recently and got my ass kicked so hard it was like fighting a fuckin ninja while blindfolded. The north side and south side of town have evacuated and I’m on the west side. My family is acting like nothing is gonna happen. We’re good for now but I’m sitting here with my anxiety disorder freaking the fuck out, and worrying if I’m sacrificing a job that I don’t even get paid minimum wage for, ~$10.50/hr (apparently it’s supposed to…