Category: Antiwork

I work at a small,family owned restaurant. It recently changed owners about a year and a half ago,and since that,it has been hell. An aunt,mother,and daughter bought it. The daughter was the manager. She is the worst boss any of us have ever known. She regularly screamed,cried,and cussed in front of customers. She berated employees. She had intense mania,and could go from loving you one day to screaming and having you cry the next. She ran that restaurant into the GROUND. We had horrible reviews on food,lost our entire kitchen staff 4-5x,and in addition,we frequently were told that we may not get paid the next day because we were so broke. Towards the end,she’d never come to work,and claim that she was doing bookkeeping. Which she never was,because after she left,we found that she hadn’t paid taxes or done books in a year. In addition,she also tried to make us…

yesterday morning i called in 30 mins before my opening shift because my apartment flooded. while i know 30 mins isnt really a lot of time to find a replacement, i obviously wasnt planning on the sink pipe bursting. i feel like most of me and my moms belongings getting absolutely drenched was a bit more important than a 3 hour opening shift at a grocery store. today i went in and manager asked what happened yesterday. so i told him, and showed him photos of all the water everywhere. he seemed annoyed about me not going in. “[coworker] was all alone, why couldnt you have just come in?” like, if it was that important, why couldnt manager had come in instead?? mornings are usually pretty slow anyway. i didnt even tell him that the night prior i hardly slept because i was so nauseous and in pain from a…

I have a new job lined up already. I start in about a month. I'm just pondering when I want to crush my management's soul with my email. I'm not gonna admit that I am the best employee, but I know for a fact that I'm pretty good at what I do compared to the rest of my colleagues. Management knows. My colleagues know that as well, and they have told me that they'd nominate me for the best employee award if it came down to that. But we have too many concerns and issues on our floor that has been escalated to management. Yet management does not even bat an eye at trying to resolve those issues. They're literally concerns that affect direct customer care. Like most other jobs, we are overworked, understaffed, and micromanaged. I want the best for my colleagues, but I want this company to go…

They're another reason HR departments are toxic bullshit. I applied for an inbound calls job. I was short-listed within a day and offered the tests. That's when I knew I was fucked. I have serious performance anxiety. The tests were as follows: The usual highly transparent and “no right answers, toxic positivity required!” Personality test. Passed because I know these HR companies only hire yes-men. A language and comprehension test. Answers were timed. High score. Mathematics test with little hidden gotchas hidden at the bottom of each illustration. I missed one and only noticed it halfway through the chapter of questions. Also had timed questions. Average score. A data analysis test. It was literally this: 10110- O11II1 – 10110- O11II1 2025552 LLYXYX – 2025252 LLZXYX But these are seven to twelve other lines of data like this, most of them longer and you have sixty to forty seconds to guess…

So, I have been chatting with my neighbor for a while now. He's a socialist, but he doesn't know it. For the longest, he was hardcore red. Trying to shake things up and make a change. The whole time, he was agreeing with what I said: better wages for working folk, medicine for everybody, the whole shebang. I would avoid buzzwords while chatting with him, like socialism or anything else that would set off the propaganda machine that he was used to. Tonight, while explaining the struggle, I found straightforward language that could appeal to what seems like anybody: Workers VS Suits. Once I put it like that, all the puzzle pieces fell into place. Old guard and philosophers know bourgeoisie vs the proletariat. He knew the struggle we've all dealt with. Maybe it's time to update the language and make it accessible: Workers VS Suits. What do you think?