Author: Olivia

Hey Antiwork, I've posted here before that Activision Blizzard King was seeking to force workers to return to office. Workers were given different timelines of return to office plans also known as RTO. Now, sadly the accommodations process has been sending out copy and paste responses at a delayed rate to workers requesting what into they need to meet the accommodation request, to work from home still. I should also stress that “togetherness” has been the touted trait ABK (Activision-Blizzard-King) uses in their wording for why RTO is happening. While on our end all of our metrics have been up. I have seen over 1/5th of my team in Minnesota either quit or be “fired” unlawfully (pending nlrb rulings). This also comes as ABK is rapidly expanding their Austin Texas Office and hiring tons of independent contractors to replace the current full time testers. Sadly the level of work doesn't…

Did anyone hear the npr marketplace segment on GOP pushing for work requirements for welfare? Apparently, there are huge multi-million dollar companies that get government money to enforce the work requirements. They consider the people ‘their product’. The whole story made my blood boil. These CEOs get paid millions for taking advantage of people while simultaneously fleecing the government. How is what they are doing not bondage?

I am a manager at a company with huge responsibilities and recently a policy was shared with me that would require all managers to leave company vehicles at work, and be on call while responding with personal vehicles. As a manager who is on call 24/7 and having had taken other concessions in the past regarding remuneration of my job, this was the last straw for me. I wrote up a respectful letter to upper management requesting more communication on the matter as I believe it is very important that policy changes should be a collaborative process. Upper management decided that a top down approach would be implemented and that what I said didn't matter as the policy was to take effect immediately. I filed for resignation. I was told that upper management shouldn't have to kiss our ass to make us happy. Well, we shouldn't have to kiss theirs…

CEOs and bosses laying off thousands and raking millions, threats of AI replacing people in the work place, more war and after thousands of years of evolution and science and we still can't feed the hungry or house the poor? Seriously why TF are we on this planet if we can't even work together? The new “minimum wage” is 15 dollars or 30k a year but medium income has now risen to 46k, a whole 16k less than what only some of us are making and much less thsn what unfortunately a lot are as well. I can't even celebrate a birthday because bills won't let up and if something goes wrong, even by a little, than I lose my home or my power or my family doesn't eat.

So we recently had a company meeting where our CEO announced that 2 employees that have been working for 25 years will be receiving a $25,000 bonus.. But I've been working here 27 years and all I got when I had 25 years was a plaque. I brought this up to the CEO and she said that “we weren't doing the $25,000 when you hit 25 years. One of the people who received that bonus check today has been working here 26 years. I know my worth. I know that without me, this company would not be working. I take shorter lunches to help customers, and I've been working here the longest. I don't want to beg for money, but my god, that $25k would help me and my family out so much. I want to meet with the CEO and discuss this in person. How should I approach this??…