Author: Olivia

Why aren't we posting the names of these shitty companies? Not exactly the people behind them. But the business itself? What change do we expect companies to do if we don't hold them accountable for the actions of their employees? We know our employees will use our social media presence as a way of representing the brand and anything outside of working hours is judged as if we were on the clock, why don't we take the actions of actions that were actually done on the clock by management and put them on blast? Just a question. Because I wanna see change in our capitalistic society.

Anyone else subjected to wasting time each day filling out health metrics on this or a similar app? My company previously reduced monthly insurance costs for the year if you produced a copy of your health screening results (blood test, general physical) but apparently that was too useful and convenient. For the last few years, we’ve had to carrot and stick our way through this pointless Pulse app in order to accrue points for an overall cost reduction on health insurance for the following year. “Did you drink water today?” “Did you eat a healthy breakfast?” “True or false: sleeping 8 hours a day makes you feel better.” “Join a team and dance your way across the globe with steps!” Give me a break. Stop stealing even more of my time and what little motivation I have left for my job at this point.

It's been a year since it all happened. I feel like I can talk about this now. Please be aware that this is a long post. My parents founded a small business in the 80s in international sports media production. Over time, they transitioned into the broadcasting/signal transmissioning business. I grew up expecting to join the company after I graduated. I'd take it over when they retired. At the time, we had three employees (the engineer, myself, and my dad). It was all going well. In 2020, I graduated from university and started working with my dad.  But then COVID came. The sports industry died, and we couldn't pay the bills for rent (the landlord knew we couldn't move due to our equipment on the roof and had been hiking up the rent). They were forced to sell the company. My mum became a 40% shareholder while my dad was…

I work at a fast-food poke kiosk in my local mall. When I started, we often had multiple people working a shift. For some unknown reason, the manager has expected ONE employee to handle the morning/afternoon shift and another employee to work the evening/closing shift on the weekdays. The problem is that lately, we've gotten quite popular, making it hard for one person to multitask (work the register, make food and drinks, prep ingredients, wash dishes). More often than not, we've run out of mixer cups and bowls because of how bogged down we can get (even with two people on shift on the weekends). Multiple employees have complained to the manager, but nothing has been done to solve the problem. We haven't gotten any new employees to help out despite people expressing interest in working and customers complaining that we need more help.

​ https://preview.redd.it/rzxaw954v5n81.png?width=753&format=png&auto=webp&s=6fa72a12e755dd280fa1fec47873ac50c33b8e83

I am a full time college student (currently enrolled in 6 classes), yet I still have to work 45+ hours in a single week in order to put food on the table. Why does society push towards the standards of fetishizing earning your degrees when at the same time giving little to no aid for students. I am horrified of the thought of putting in these sleepless months on end at the end of my semesters, finally earning that degree, that it would all be for nothing. If there can be protection for students in high school, (which is perfectly understandable as to why due to child protection laws in the work place) than why can't any of said rules transfer over to those who claim as a full time student (15 credit hours or more in a single semester)

I posted this in another thread and felt like it needed its own thread. More of a rant post if anything. Can we stop with the bullshit myth that “working in tech is comfortable” Because it's not. It's insanely stressful. Cause its a straight up LIE. I've worked in “tech” 7 years as a Level 2 Systems Engineer across internal and Managed Service Providers and another 2 years as a Webcasting Solutions Specialist. Here is just a FEW of the bullshit things i've had to deal with in my career. When i worked for Dell Had a list of 15 stats sent out every morning of our performance and if we fell below the line we were constantly brought up by management. People would shun you if you fell below the line Constant scrutiny from management on your tickets and not closing calls quick enough or staying in the queue…

(Feel free to remove If it doesn't belong here.) I'm 16 (f) I got my first proper job 3 weeks ago at my local Greggs (British fast food pastry chain) today is my 6th shift and I've already gone home crying, It's mostly to do with co-workers and my training. One particular colleague (32) I can tell looks down on me, he comes into work even on his days off or well before his shifts starts and looks over my shoulders to pick out what I'm doing wrong, when I ask him questions about where something is or what to do he acts like I've asked him the stupidest question, sometimes he assumes I've done something wrong and tries to call me over until my supervisors tell him I haven't and maybe I heard wrong or was projecting but I made a mistake on breakfast and I think I heard…

I will try to keep this from becoming a long rant, and try to keep it coherent. I work in trades, in an industrial environment, and am non-union. I know, antiwork is all about unions, but I turned down an union position because being an apprentice in an union has its own issues, which I won’t go into because I feel this post will end up long enough.I planned on getting my journeyman license on my own, and only then applying to union positions as a journey person. Well folks, the time has come. I’m taking my journeyman licensing exam on March 15th for the 1st time. I’m nervous about it, but even if fail I’ve already proved my hours and experience, and I can retake the exam as many times as I need, as soon as I want. Years of working my ass off and sucking dick (metaphorically!!) is…