Category: Antiwork

Yes, this is a completely serious question. I am a relatively new worker at this place and I’ve been working for about a month and still haven’t been paid. I also am in general very unhappy with the hours. I feel too bad quitting especially since they have me scheduled for other dates but idk. Is it illegal to send a text to my work group chat saying I was involved in a car accident and killed or is that too far /serious

Pretty much just a list of all the reasons I hated my last boss… 1) Changed my salary pay to hourly conveniently when my family had covid in 2020 and I had to miss 2 weeks of work. I only found out when I got a $0 paystub. When I talked to my boss about it, they told me “oh I changed you to hourly awhile ago”. 2) Required employees to claim unemployment at the height of the pandemic 2020 when businesses reopened and we were allowed to return to work. Had us work but stay clocked out. 3) When I signed up on the company insurance plan, told me to tell my dad “fuck you, thanks for costing me an extra $500 a month”, because my dad dropped me from his plan (for other reasons I’m not going into, but it wasn’t his fault) 4) I had a vacation…

So basically, I was supposed to start this new job tomorrow but I decided I wanted to start earlier, so after a discussion with my then current employer and the new company, they said I could start Tuesday of this week. I was told it would be 3 days of training at the facility. I received no communication on to what my schedule was like for the rest of the week or even if I was supposed to work. Well, I made plans for Saturday and Sunday. They just texted me telling me my first day is going to be tomorrow at 10am and that I work Saturday. The schedules for the following week come out on Sundays. I told them I wouldn’t be available Saturday and Sunday since I have prior engagements and they didn’t communicate with me with enough notice. Pics are screenshots of how the conversation went…

Man the last few nights have been rough… chronic insomnia has finally caught up with me big-time. I've managed 4 hours sleep the last few nights and dragged myself through my shifts feeling like absolute garbage. And here I am at almost 4am with work (or not) in 3 hours, no sleep, no sign of any impending, laying in bed resenting the amount of overtime they put on us to cover 3 years of non-stop shortcomings. But for some reason I soldiered on and done my bit to help the public. Because that's who I am, but it's time to help myself. Nah I'm not going in. Or the day after that. Or the day after that one. And no more overtime, money ain't buying my happiness. Roll on 6am when my supervisors phone is turned on

Things are bad at work. Very bad. I expect I will be doing 12-14 hour days in the office (I’m salaried so no OT) until November. No matter how hard I try to keep things organized, projects always turn into a mess with major changes from leadership by the hour that I’m not clued in on. This week I told leadership that a failure was on the way. I said it every day & laid out exactly how to mitigate it. and it did not matter what I said. There was a very condescending email saying I was making unsubstantiated claims and speculating without all of the information. And sure enough, I was right. It did fail. But I don’t feel good about being right. I feel completely ignored. Like no one values my insight. Part of me is starting to think I should just stop mitigating risks entirely. Let…

This did not happen to me, but someone close to me. Someone that works for a very large west coast Electric and Gas company threatened to come back to work and shoot up the place. All the managers and supervisors know about the incident along with the HR dept. They initially scheduled some “Active Shooter Response” classes but have so far rescheduled three times with no actual date on the calendar. As of yesterday, 20 September 2023, no one within the company or the union have contacted the police nor have they made any additional security measures. A lot of employees are worried about what might happen next. Supposedly, the union reps and HR “took care of the matter and that this is a safe working environment.”

So, boss has been abusing employees for a large company for almost a year. Manages their own perception up, but steps on everyone that isn't above them. Comes across as a total arrogant asshole to everyone but doesn't seem to know. Is a very hard worker but has total shite for people skills. Its gotten so bad former workers formed a support group. Anyone think there's any legal liability here? Asking for a friend