Author: Olivia

Hello, Antiwork. I'm curious about my state's labor laws regarding breaks. At my workplace, the management usually allow us to take a single half-hour break on an eight-hour shift. According to websites regarding Wisconsin's labor laws, employers are not required to provide a single break to any employees over the age of eighteen. Is this true, and, if it is true, how the hell is this legal?

I'm almost at my wit's end with this. Luckily , I work from home these days, but my heart still cares about front line workers. What do we do about these customers assaulting workers/nurses/waiters/ etc? And how do we address the managers that give free food to these felonious assholes? I tried to start a movement to talk about this a decade ago, and my fellow workers had more smoke for me than the men assaulting them. I am not sure how things can change if workers get angry when you suggest punishing people who threaten to rape them, instead of being mad at the lunatic threatening to rape them!

I work at a restaurant where every time you clock out a manager has to join you and swipe their card for “break rule violation.” Meaning they have to legally input a thirty minute break in your hours even though you didn't take one. After a while I was thinking about this and realized I've never clocked out for a thirty minute break during my shift because no manager has ever asked if I wanted/needed one after the 5 hour mark unless I'm working a double. This makes a little more sense for the servers as they can't exactly leave their tables randomly for thirty minutes but as I'm just starting out on the host stand I started becoming really annoyed by this as I'm not making any money from tips and my hourly rate is just above minimum. So now during my 5-7 hour shifts where I work the…

Lurker here. A while ago I saw a post from a user who had automated their entire WFH job into a few minutes of work a week. I'm sure many of you are also aware of this post or maybe others like them. Now they did the coding for this themselves and are still providing the company they work for with the service they asked for, for the price they agreed. But what about the jobs done by people who don't have the ability to write their own code? I operate a small bespoke software engineering company, so what would the reasons be why I shouldn't take clients asking to automate their WFH jobs for a fee? I see this as fair game but have a feeling there is something I am missing. And I'm fairly confident the internet will tell me if I am.

When I moved to Canada, about 8 years ago, I was given a work permit to work at this IT company. They knew that for the next two years I didn’t had a choice but to work for them, or I would have to leave Canada. When I tell people what kind of work environment I had there, they can’t believe me. Btw the company is alive and kicking until this day. We were told to bring toilet paper from home. They wouldn’t buy it. Same thing for water. Tap or home. Not to mention tea or coffee. No AC in the summer – saving electricity (and there were some hot days there). There was a parking in the building. 50$ a month. They refused to pay it and preferred me running outside every 2 hours to move my car. They would make me come work weekends at least twice…

Edit: They have already reported the issue.