Category: Antiwork

Edit: TL;DR: Waited a 7 months for a promised raise and promotion at shitty organization. Left immediately from high profile project when that didn't come through. Sowed mild chaos and discontent on my exit. Walked away with my bonus and started new job paying more in better environment. I quit my job a few weeks back. I know some of you here are in retail or warehouse labor and you don't want to hear the grumblings of someone making 6 figures but there is exploitation at every level. This happens aggressively to those on an immigration visa. The companies cry “the talent doesn't exist here in the US so we need immigrants.” Those who have mobility use it and they leave bad companies. Those that can't are basically slaves to their immigration status. It's exploitative and wrong and it bothers me. I don't have that problem but it shows the…

Why aren't we posting the names of these shitty companies? Not exactly the people behind them. But the business itself? What change do we expect companies to do if we don't hold them accountable for the actions of their employees? We know our employees will use our social media presence as a way of representing the brand and anything outside of working hours is judged as if we were on the clock, why don't we take the actions of actions that were actually done on the clock by management and put them on blast? Just a question. Because I wanna see change in our capitalistic society.

Anyone else subjected to wasting time each day filling out health metrics on this or a similar app? My company previously reduced monthly insurance costs for the year if you produced a copy of your health screening results (blood test, general physical) but apparently that was too useful and convenient. For the last few years, we’ve had to carrot and stick our way through this pointless Pulse app in order to accrue points for an overall cost reduction on health insurance for the following year. “Did you drink water today?” “Did you eat a healthy breakfast?” “True or false: sleeping 8 hours a day makes you feel better.” “Join a team and dance your way across the globe with steps!” Give me a break. Stop stealing even more of my time and what little motivation I have left for my job at this point.

It's been a year since it all happened. I feel like I can talk about this now. Please be aware that this is a long post. My parents founded a small business in the 80s in international sports media production. Over time, they transitioned into the broadcasting/signal transmissioning business. I grew up expecting to join the company after I graduated. I'd take it over when they retired. At the time, we had three employees (the engineer, myself, and my dad). It was all going well. In 2020, I graduated from university and started working with my dad.  But then COVID came. The sports industry died, and we couldn't pay the bills for rent (the landlord knew we couldn't move due to our equipment on the roof and had been hiking up the rent). They were forced to sell the company. My mum became a 40% shareholder while my dad was…

I work at a fast-food poke kiosk in my local mall. When I started, we often had multiple people working a shift. For some unknown reason, the manager has expected ONE employee to handle the morning/afternoon shift and another employee to work the evening/closing shift on the weekdays. The problem is that lately, we've gotten quite popular, making it hard for one person to multitask (work the register, make food and drinks, prep ingredients, wash dishes). More often than not, we've run out of mixer cups and bowls because of how bogged down we can get (even with two people on shift on the weekends). Multiple employees have complained to the manager, but nothing has been done to solve the problem. We haven't gotten any new employees to help out despite people expressing interest in working and customers complaining that we need more help.

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I am a full time college student (currently enrolled in 6 classes), yet I still have to work 45+ hours in a single week in order to put food on the table. Why does society push towards the standards of fetishizing earning your degrees when at the same time giving little to no aid for students. I am horrified of the thought of putting in these sleepless months on end at the end of my semesters, finally earning that degree, that it would all be for nothing. If there can be protection for students in high school, (which is perfectly understandable as to why due to child protection laws in the work place) than why can't any of said rules transfer over to those who claim as a full time student (15 credit hours or more in a single semester)

I posted this in another thread and felt like it needed its own thread. More of a rant post if anything. Can we stop with the bullshit myth that “working in tech is comfortable” Because it's not. It's insanely stressful. Cause its a straight up LIE. I've worked in “tech” 7 years as a Level 2 Systems Engineer across internal and Managed Service Providers and another 2 years as a Webcasting Solutions Specialist. Here is just a FEW of the bullshit things i've had to deal with in my career. When i worked for Dell Had a list of 15 stats sent out every morning of our performance and if we fell below the line we were constantly brought up by management. People would shun you if you fell below the line Constant scrutiny from management on your tickets and not closing calls quick enough or staying in the queue…