Category: Antiwork

Recently the owner of my company swore to us there would not be any more layoffs at my company. But then literally a week later another huge layoff happened (we’ve already had several this year.) Obviously I am ticked off and started googling potential types of recourse people might have, if any, and I stumbled upon this thing called “Promissory Estoppel.” Based on my very limited understanding, it sounds like it’s a term for when an employer makes a promise to an employee and then breaks it and the consequences are detrimental to the employee. Obviously you have to be able to prove a promise was made, but it still feels like it fits a lot of the stories on this sub. I am just curious if anyone has ever tried to argue this and what the situation was.

I've had to attend multiple staff development meetings over the past three years and bristle whenever I hear the solution to stress and burnout in the workplace being “take deep breaths” and, “practice mindfulness”. It's never: Pay people a living wage”, or, “universal healthcare”, or, “paid leave/adequate PTO”.

A company that I started working for this year in January failed me on my PIP, after I received approval for WFH for my cancer treatment, and I found another company that hired me in less than a week from the interview. But I erased and combined my short stints with my previous companies so that they would judge me based on my skills and responsibilities, instead of my poor relationships with my previous employers. For several years I have struggled to keep a job. When I was in college, I needed credits in order to graduate, and I struggled to make it into the big companies, but I worked for smaller ones, but I was hired as a temp/contractor where my employers had no intention of retaining me or offering further training. I struggled for a year after college to find a job, because I graduated into the pandemic,…

Due to their mishandling of an inclement weather day this week, we “fell behind” schedule and were informed tonight (Friday) that we have to work tomorrow a full shift or get pointed. It should be illegal to mandate a shift without at least a day advanced notice.

I am tempted to apply. ​ https://preview.redd.it/94x170y5mrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b3fbe62ce55b88804277bf1bdeab019f05fa165 ​ https://preview.redd.it/n92ijqw8mrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b024bd72abc377e61c8557def44126f2f6de4a08 ​ https://preview.redd.it/vw3mdkbbmrlb1.jpg?width=4656&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0d88c5597478eca26ea8d2ffbc69d862cda7d303

I've already got another job lined up, and I'm amazed at how much my GAF meter has plummeted. I work in a brick factory that has productivity requirements for the employees. Normally I wouldn't mind that, except for the fact that we aren't allowed to take any downtime for mechanical failures or other such issues that aren't the employee's fault. This leads to being penalized (usually by being put on a PIP) for not meeting quota. Recently, we had a meeting where it was heavily implied that if we don't leave our break (2x 15min) or lunch (1x25min) early to address problems, then we'll be held accountable for any quota shortfalls. Seriously? Our breaks are paid, but if your production quotas are so important that I can't take 25mins out of a 12-hour shift to eat, there's a problem. DAE think this is ridiculous, or am I being unreasonable?

How am I supposed to find someone in less than an hour when there are only some people with available phone numbers, half of the people I text are busy, and a third of them don't respond because I only gave them an hour's notice? When you're sick, you're SICK. You can't be going in and potentially infecting not only all of your coworkers but also everyone who comes into the store to buy the food that YOU MAKE. There could be customers with disabilities who are counting on my manager not forcing contagious people to make their food. My manager is the one who schedules as few people as possible so she doesn't have to pay people. Why is it my responsibility to make up for her refusal to prepare for this?

I feel like every little bit helps. Anyone else have small things they do?