Category: Antiwork

Toxic Salon Environment So I’m an esthetician that works for a franchise. My specific locations franchise owner is very…fussy and cliquey. But the problem isn’t the services. It’s the way that our owner is forcing us to do work of esthetician and receptionist at the same time, and often times we’ll be left alone trying to run the whole place by ourselves. This has been happening to me a lot lately. A lot of this extra work is outside of our job description and wasn’t talked about when I was hired on (other coworkers didn’t get this information as well). We also make less than minimum wage and due to the way that we have nobody to answer the phone and how the managers want us to run things, most of the locations my franchise owner has lack clients. These clients also receive discounts every single time they don’t get…

If you are pay falls on a holiday or a weekend, Is it occurred to see our legal requirement that employers pay you the business state before if not, Are they required To pay the 1st business day after?…. Canada

I always fear that I will get rejected or get a lot of questions asked about what's up with the gap in work history. Like I don't understand how to even explain. First gap was due to caretaker then my rec gap is because I got fired from my last job at retail store. So like I do want to get a job but my resume looks wack. I don't have any professional work experience and I'm still in community college. Due to lack of experience, I can't find better opportunities beside dead end jobs. I'm sure there are many opportunities but maybe I just don't know where to look into and there are tons of platform to learn a skill and earn certification, but I'm not sure which market to look into and what's the current trends in job market like which skills are beneficial. I don't even have…

I don't know if this is the right sub for this question, but I just got a full-time contracting role at a branding agency as a designer/creative director. It's great on paper but it's a start-up with 4 people, the founder seems very old school. The schedule is M-F, 8am-5pm, in office, no remote. So thats 45hrs a week. Do I have any leverage as a contractor to push back or flex anything? What are my rights or expectations as a contractor?

In the next few months do you see the job market picking up? People have been struggling getting offers on this sub so I’m wondering if things will ever get better ? Back in May/ June I was getting somewhere, interviews with good companies etc July August and September comes and all these weird weird jobs with weird people and barely any jobs available What do we think?

We're all supposed to be mature women, but my coworkers have really turned up this clicky mean girl bullshit and I am feeling absolutely at my end with it. I've already reported it, and communicated with management months ago. We had a serious meeting, things seemed good for a while, then to my surprise, it's happening again. It's obvious they're friends outside of work, it's obvious they are friends with people from another company that I worked for almost 6 years ago who I got on the wrong side of the queen bee, and long story short – I left that place for this job. I feel completely insecure about my situation here. Should I be mean back to them, or start looking for a different job?

I currently have an amazing role where my manager and I have almost an unspoken agreement that they do not enjoy their job and are actively interviewing for new roles. (They sent me text showing roles they were applying for and asked if I wanted to go with them) How do I best prepare for my new manager to ensure that I retain my current status quo of zero micromanagement from that position. I am hoping that when this new person inevitably starts I am able to instil a culture of ‘this is how I work, this is how the role works’ because they don’t really have much oversight on the inner workings of my role. Or is it entirely dependant on the new managers working style?

I (62m, retired) just took a job as a part time auto part’s delivery driver, 15-20 hours a week. I asked during the interview if they did a pre hire drug test. They don’t. Was honest with him and told him I smoke cannabis most evenings for relief from pain. He simply said that if I’m ever in a car accident they will do a drug test and if I test positive I’ll be fired. I’m not a chronic pothead but I do smoke a couple hits most evenings before bed, never before work or before diving anytime. Was hired, been working a couple weeks now but just wondering… say I’m in an accident, other drivers fault and I’m injured. Am I screwed? Losing the job is no big deal but will their insurance cover damages including medical expenses if needed? Thanks in advance.

That fact that today is Labor Day and the news is interviewing labor leaders about all the wonderful things the labor movement has accomplished (8 hour work days, 40 hour weeks, etc…), and then turn around and interview anti-labor groups like the Right to Work Foundation who are actively trying to reverse any and all progress made over the last 100 years is a travesty and just bad faith journalism.