Category: Antiwork

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?

Asking for friend, I will say the story as them. I work at a public school in CA, my supervisor scheduled a meeting with me at 9am but came at a later time right before my break. They go 20 minutes into my hour lunch break, I say that I need to use the restroom and they continue to hold me letting me go soon after. This caused me to have an accident and it’s been bugging me all day. What should I do? Side note this supervisor doesn’t like me and has made it apparent.

I totally get it, he tells everyone he is on the spectrum so I definitely factor that in. But he is suuuuch an asshole. I have a lot of experience with computers. My mom was IT and a network administrator, I had an email address when literally the only other people I knew with an email addres were my brothers. I built HTML websites when I ran my own business (yes, I'm aging myself ) So I usually just fix my own problems when they arise. I faithfully follow our instructions and sign ot of our vdi when I'm done for the day. But my assigned laptop overheated and wouldn't come back on yesterday. This dick stomped over to my desk this morning and grilled me like a fucking detective. His smell is so bad that it makes me nauseous and he was like, right over my shoulder, I had…

I didn't have anyone else to tell this to and didn't want to forget. And this seemed like the appropriate forum. A few years back I worked for a company that was very closely tied to agriculture. So if Ag was doing good, the company was doing good and if Ag is doing poorly, the company is doing poorly. It was also very Ag like and common to utilize their workforce in a cattle type of way and when times got rough they would cull the herd. First step was to let go all the temp workers, but attempt to keep them on the line by saying when things pick up they will hire them back. Second step was to start pulling back hours, less than full time for some and no overtime at all. Third step was to start dropping days, going to a furloughed 4 day work week.…

I was notified at the beginning of my shift that my pay was going to be reduced. This is because I transferred stores and districts 6 months ago. So the pay is “different”. This is a billion dollar company might I add. They are not doing this because they can’t afford it, they are doing it so they don’t have to raise the wages of my colleges. So why didn’t this happen when I started? They said it was a “hiccup”. They asked me to sign a form, I refused. I’ve also sent in a form for Reduced Wages (partial unemployment) This happened at the most inconvenient time, I moved to a home, rent is $3,000/month and my S/O has been unemployed for 3 1/2 months. I’m putting every extra penny in savings so that we can at least keep the lights on an extra month. Because this happened at…