Category: Antiwork

(Feel free to remove If it doesn't belong here.) I'm 16 (f) I got my first proper job 3 weeks ago at my local Greggs (British fast food pastry chain) today is my 6th shift and I've already gone home crying, It's mostly to do with co-workers and my training. One particular colleague (32) I can tell looks down on me, he comes into work even on his days off or well before his shifts starts and looks over my shoulders to pick out what I'm doing wrong, when I ask him questions about where something is or what to do he acts like I've asked him the stupidest question, sometimes he assumes I've done something wrong and tries to call me over until my supervisors tell him I haven't and maybe I heard wrong or was projecting but I made a mistake on breakfast and I think I heard…

I will try to keep this from becoming a long rant, and try to keep it coherent. I work in trades, in an industrial environment, and am non-union. I know, antiwork is all about unions, but I turned down an union position because being an apprentice in an union has its own issues, which I won’t go into because I feel this post will end up long enough.I planned on getting my journeyman license on my own, and only then applying to union positions as a journey person. Well folks, the time has come. I’m taking my journeyman licensing exam on March 15th for the 1st time. I’m nervous about it, but even if fail I’ve already proved my hours and experience, and I can retake the exam as many times as I need, as soon as I want. Years of working my ass off and sucking dick (metaphorically!!) is…

So, I have started to look for a new job lately. I'm retired from the service so I can pick and choose where I work. I have also been in the food industry for close to 40 years in basically every position from dishwasher up to Exe. Chef/Manager. As I look around, I want something close to home, part time, but with a livable wage, or since it's Florida, as close as I can get to that. I fill out the online app, state my salary requirements at between 15-17 per hour. Just so happens a local store has quite a few openings, to which I can do all of the positions, as I am cross trained in them all. Arrive at the scheduled time,and have to wait 1 hour. Interview begins. Seems to be progressing well, then we get to the part about pay. I'm told they will pay…

It's generally a bad sign when the two senior people in the department are trying to figure out a way to draw three days suspension so they can have some time off

In Romania the minimum wage is 2$/hr, while in the us it is about7.5$/hr. What the hell. How are we suposed to live?

At today's end I will have had only two days off in a 5 week period. 13 on, 1 off is the rule. This isn't meant to be a brag. I value my time off and did not want all of this OT. Of course there was no one to cover this weekend, everyone else is very busy as well. I sucked it up, but I'm extremely exhausted. My department has finally posted a position for a 3rd man to help in my discipline… 5 years we've been asking for it. Hopefully things get better. I've felt trapped under the work load for a while. Even more so by feeling the weight of being a sole provider. Decent healthcare and benefits are hard to come by, but is it worth this toll on the body? I've enjoyed this subreddit, and just wanted to vent. I guess I don't have a…

I (m30 something (honestly not sure, and not doing the math)) am a shipping coordinator for a building supply production warehouse. In a nutshell; I make sure things go. Most companies with whom I work have people working the same position as I. I call them, they call me, we email each other, it's an orchestrated effort to make sure the product gets to the job site when it needs to be there, not late and definitely not early. There is some natural pressure built in (no pun) to the position as anyone who has worked in the construction business well knows. Well… Inevitably there is going to be the guy (that guy) who wants to do it all themself. They run a business as lean as they possibly can, “you see, it's just me and my brother in law and his 12 year old… I can't be everywhere at…

The rewards are few, the exploitation is massive. I've heard of Managers overhiring Salespeople so that they are constantly feeling underpaid, so they have to stress more about making sales on commission. In reverse scenarios, I've seen organizations under-employ their operations and marketing, to cut costs. This emotionally tortures their current employees who don't have much of a say in the situation. It also doesn't yield the desired results.

Preface: I am interviewing for a job and I have only ever done the 9-5 Mon-Fri BS once and absolutely hated it. It burnt me out so quick. I felt like Saturday was for catching up on sleep or free time and Sunday was to prep for Monday. This new job requires 9-5 and it’s an hourly paying job. I like this job because it pays really well, it’s remote & is easy for me. I’d honestly prefer something that was only 4 days a week, 10 hours a day. Is it wrong of me to think about accepting the job knowing I won’t be happy? Or any tips to avoid burnout?