Month: July 2022

I drive 45 minutes to get to work every morning. I always leave at the same time, sometimes I get to work on time but other times there’s terrible traffic and I get stuck. According to the GPS, it always says I’ll get there on time when I’m leaving my house, so it can be hard for me to plan how early to leave. I want to note- being late has never impacted my work quality or how much work I complete. If I’m late, I work late to compensate for it, even if it’s just a few minutes. I work hard and I often have to work through my lunch break because of the amount of work I have to complete and the strict deadlines. I do so without complaint. They just placed my coworker on an unpaid leave for multiple days because he was late too many times.…

Fellow antiworkers, I've been working in a same cultural institution of my country for the past 4 years. Pay is not great, communication between the boards of directors and regular workers non-existent, treatment of employees is akin to one in a mentally abusive relationship. Just yesterday I went to my higher-up (a very decent person [one of the good ones]) and asked her what are the long-distance plans for me and other employees from our departament (it is important to note that since mid 2020 our departament is enrolled in an EU financed project that is ending with the last day of September, current year). She (the higher-up) very frankly told me that the director of the institute demanded of her to shrink our departament from current 100 employees to staggering 35. She was forced to evaluate each and every one of us on a 1 to 5 scale and…

I’m starting a new job soon and I’m filling out a lot of paper work, taking a drug test, etc. Is this time billable? I haven’t officially started by my last jobs had me do this on my first day and I was paid for it. In Michigan btw.

I had joined my workplace(hospital) 3 months ago, And I was 12 weeks Pregnant. I decided not to reveal my pregnancy at the time of joining as I was apprehensive sharing such news at beginning of my job as people usually judge pregnant workers as someone who doesn’t want to put in 100% effort here. So now at 24weeks I decided to ask to give me less physically demanding posting (my work is very physically demanding) so revealed that I am pregnant. My supervisor criticised me for not telling this at time of joining and how ethically wrong it was on my part to not disclose this information. How I kind of was dishonest with the organisation and only joined because I wanted maternity benefits. (Which is not the case as this job was my dream job and I had to take a tough decision leaving my previous job which…

So my husband signed us up for his employee health insurance, since I just started a new job and my health benefits don't kick in until October. He sent the paperwork in yesterday, and they got back to him today saying that he would be charged the monthly premium for July. The month that has FOUR DAYS LEFT in it. So we are out almost $700 for 4 days coverage. When he questioned this scenario they said its “standard procedure” but were unable to provide documentation to support that statement. I'm so mad. This is fucking ridiculous. Because it's not like we can just skip it, we have a toddler who we need to get vaccinated against covid and without insurance the cost is several hundred dollars. Because the walk in clinics around here won't vaccinate under 2 years for covid, she HAS to go to a pediatrician for it.…

So I’ve been working as a bakery clerk for a grocery store in my town for about a year now. I have struggled with anxiety for most of high school so I thought a job like this would be easier for me (working in the back). As time went on, more and more issues started to rise and I have thought of quitting more times than I can count. The last straw for me is this: there is NO time to get everything done in the day. At all. I have tried to tell this to my manager numerous times, but her only advice is to “manage my time better” and “work more efficiently”. I walk in at 6am and I leave at 2:30pm, lucky if I can take my lunch, and I work fast. I’m constantly multitasking, which is stressful and ups my anxiety. I’m only ever scolded and…

Here we go! I have a meeting later with my supervisor. She does this right in the office in front of others. I know she'll find some way of making it seem like I'm not performing up to standard. The majority of the issues I have stem from a lack of communication from her. Like I need certain information to complete task and she simply never gives it to me. She horrible, everyone thinks she's unapproachable, yet I have to speak to her to get anything done. The first week on the job she told me “I don't like to talk to people.” That's what I am dealing with. She's also grossly unqualified for the job. She's an IT manager and she has no idea what a hypervisor is and doesn't know the difference between RAM and disk space. The truth is that she has poorly managed the IT department,…

I work for an outpatient healthcare company. I won't say what they do or who they are since they could potentially find out who I am. They are really worried about the recession apparently despite an increase in patients and revenue. To combat this they are hiring as little as possible and trying to do everything remote. Soon I imagine that an average experience here will go as follows: you will be checked in by a remote receiptionist on an ipad from Bolivia making roughly $3/hr without benefits. Then you will go into a room with maybe some poorly paid and undertrained staff member. If a doctor is required the staff will wheel in an ipad on a stick and they will talk to you from 1000 miles away. It will be cold, impersonal and likely lead to numerous misdiagnoses and poor treatment planning, if you can even afford it.…