Author: Olivia

I don't get why childcare is so undervalued. https://preview.redd.it/q9i2b437m6i81.jpg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=12608f63d5a9e2c61440b39ca22ccec496d855ed

So I’m a deli clerk at Walmart , I’ve been there about 6 weeks , in those 6 weeks I’ve never gotten more then 1 day off in a row, this morning at 05:00 one my low end managers texted me “would you like to come in today at 1pm”. If I say yes it’ll eliminate the first time I’ve had two days off . How do I politely tell her absolutely fucking not?

Anyone in the same sinking boat as me.. I can barely keep my measley $4,000 savings in the bank. Working 44 hour weeks just to put a roof over my head and maybe save a teenie bit.

I was asked to do a continued education course once a week, two hours a week, for 8 weeks outside of my normal work hours. They are compensating me (minimally) to attend this training. A day before the training the instructor sent out an email with a few assignments: Google form to fill in, personality survey, and an article to read. I didn't do any of it because they aren't paying me any extra time for homework. Thoughts? It shouldn't matter, but I work in public education where I'm already expected to do car rider liner, stay for sports and work gates, and all the extra bullshit we do like buying our own supplies, etc. that I'm never compensated for.

Would you like your daughter to be treated like you are treating your employees? Would you like her to be fired for asking for a contract?  If she was presented with a better opportunity and she could still stay for one more month so it was legal for her to go, would you like her boss to force her to leave on that day, so he didn't have to pay her last salary? If your daughter was more sensitive, would you like her boss to put her down and tell her she's replaceable and not good enough? Would you like her boss to change her hours all the time, sometimes without a day's notice so she never can get some real stability? Would you like her to sign her resignation in advance without a date? Would you like her to miss some extra work because her boss brought somebody new just because…

I switched industries recently and didn’t even think about searching if there was a union available. On my first day, all the new starters were sitting through various speakers and presentations including one from the union who we could text for more information (it felt very discreet haha). I didn’t need to text for information and hopped online and signed up right away. It’s just really nice to be part of an industry that first of all, has a union at all, secondly, even offers union representatives the chance to promote new starters, and thirdly, embodies the true r/antiwork beliefs (we are not all lazy unemployed dwellers of our mother’s basements). TL;DR: I joined a union, it was great.