Author: Olivia

Just before I give any more information please be aware I'm in WA AUSTRALIA so American advice is not useful. So basically recently my younger sister (18) shared a link to the SDA (union) website to a casual snapchat group with other coworkers at her McDonalds. She shared it to let the other workers know where they could get more information about their working rights in case they were curious. The reason the topic was brought up is because they were not given payslips for that week, although this issue was later fixed. She also shared a link to the SDA on her personal Instagram story to talk more generally to her peers about making sure they are aware of their working rights. Fast forward to today, she goes in to work and one of the other workers has screenshotted both the snapchat message and the instagram story and sent…

Hi all, Browsing the posts on antiwork it looks like a trend is for companies that are struggling to find staff are blaming ‘handouts’ as the reason. I’m not from the US so my understanding is probably way off, but I thought that only 2 stimulus checks were sent during the pandemic, which if that’s true how can they be blamed for a company struggling to fill roles? Less than $3000 (my understanding of the amount, please correct me if I’m wrong) doesn’t sound like retirement money to me, is this a common belief amongst companies/bosses or is it simply a scapegoat they can use for the fact that people just don’t want to work for them? Thanks all

It’s my 3rd shift working at a pretty high end popular hotel chain and it’s graveyard shift. the 1 other person who was working with me just left due to health reasons & repeatedly called both managers, neither picked up. They are required to have a manager onsite at all times. I want to put up signs about it just incase but I can’t afford to lose this job or quit because i took it for the pay increase. i know i will not find another job that fits my qualifications that pays this much.

Washington is an at-will state so technically this isn’t illegal. But why is it such a bad thing to not want to get anyone else sick? I have a very weak immune system and I’ve been going to the doctor’s to figure out why. I haven’t got an answer yet but hopefully soon we will know something. Anyways, I work with the public, so of course I’m gonna get sick. The issue is, when I get sick, I become bedbound for at least the first day. But it just baffles me that my boss expects me to come in, especially with Covid still going around in my county, while I’m sick with respiratory issues. But it baffles me even more to know that it’s 100% LEGAL to FIRE ME for being sick. I was gonna quit anyways because I was constantly being discriminated against, but I was gonna wait until…

I work as a line cook/kitchen manager. Yesterday, my Assistant General Manager had asked me to clean the wall behind the fryer whenever I got the chance to do so. So I get behind the fryer and I’m doing my thing cleaning the wall. Suddenly my friend and coworker looks over at me in horror and tells me to go look at my hair in the bathroom because there’s something in it. In my mind I’m thinking it’s some debris from being back behind the fryer. Nope. An entire chunk of my hair is burnt off from the heat behind the fryer. I’m almost immediately in tears. I take out my hair and there’s a huge chunk of blackened hair that falls into the bathroom sink. Everyone saw it happen. I ask to leave because I HAVE to go get a haircut to fix this; I have an important celebration…

Last summer I worked at a popular grocery chain in my region. I worked there about four months before leaving for a retail job that paid me four dollars more. (For college reasons, I need to save every penny). It was my first job in over a year and the first since the pandemic started, and with school returning to in-person I thought it’d be more easier to make shifts, and I had trust in the company to keep track of all of said shifts—so I didn’t track my hours at all, just wrote down the direct deposit I got every two weeks. In hindsight it would’ve been way more easier for me to address this issue had I known how many hours it was off, but nothing to do about it now. Anyways, about a month ago I received a letter from this previous employer that basically boils down…

Hi y'all. So, my family is forcing me to study engineering so that I can get into those soul sucking 9-5 IT jobs. Now my real heart lies with physics, but you know how it is, research takes a lot of time considering you have to get a PhD and it pays less then those IT jobs. These family members and people of society around me go as far as saying researchers are not respected much and pretty much anyone can do bsc but they get menial jobs. Now I'm pretty outraged and kinda sad that my passion is being demeaned. I mean how the fuck do you expect me to forget Physics and Astronomy and just move on? It's not that simple and it shouldn't be!