Category: Antiwork

Mostly a lurker first time poster, I’m on mobile so sorry for formatting issues… I work for a city government and just changed jobs from a part time 15 hour a week to a “part time” 30 hour job plus benefits. I’ve been working for the city nearly 2 years so I’m well past my intro periods and should be eligible for assistance programs…. This month I suddenly got massively sick, at first thought it was Covid so was covered under our policies, or so I thought… once it turned out it was my wisdom tooth I was told the sick policies didn’t cover it, and I would have to exhaust all my leave before going on leave without pay, and that because I “didn’t meet the hours requirement for the last year” I don’t qualify for FMLA. I also apparently didn’t qualify for our sick leave pool because it…

We had a staff meeting today and my boss told us small tattoos are okay but if we have big ones (he used a sleeve as an example) we would have to wear long sleeves even in summer. Now I only have 2 small tattoos currently, but I plan to get a dream catcher tattoo going down my arm. Obviously that's not a sleeve but I feel like he may categorize that as a sleeve lol. Anyway, I'm just wondering if anyone has these kinds of policies at their workplace, and if you've ever had any issues regarding tattoos.

I'm a single mom who has decided to move closer to my family states away. My in-laws who were helping me have had medical problems lately and aren't able to help me take care of my kids like they were. Work is generally fine but stressful as hell. I gave my work 3 month notice because things literally cannot function there without me. I come back from a day off and vital functions have ceased. No one even knows their email password without me, much less what each of our construction crews are doing. The lady they hired today to replace me is going to make $15k more annually than what they pay me, a person who has worked 6 years with the company. She will make more having worked 1 day than I will having worked years. She will make more money in a training day than I will…

I made good money but never saved it. I didn’t have a safety net saved. I just couldn’t take another day. Now I’m terrified, I have a huge car payment, and a mortgage to pay, and I can’t work another sales job I just can’t handle it. I sucked at school I can’t do that. I feel so bitter trying to apply anywhere, like I’m begging for someone to accept my soul. Because work is soul crushing. A part of me is proud I left, but the other part of me thinks maybe it was a fuck up…

I am working 40 hour weeks in healthcare, sans pay (otherwise known as somehow totally legal clinical rotations for college). I dread it every single evening, slog through the day, then go home in the late afternoon and lay in bed depressed I have to do it again the next day. Even with pay, I just i don’t want to work. I am so over the 5 days a week work life we are expected to lead/ have to live in order to afford the basic necessities in life. I just wanted to rant and that’s about it, I’m sure there’s tons of posts on here about this same thing but I’m brand new and again just wanted to vent. Bye ️

Currently trying to apply to burger king, and one of the things the employer wants me to do is answer this fucking quizlet where it gives me like a hundred words and weird phrases and the two options are “me” and “not me” The fuck does this have to do with burgers? Half of these were just straight up nouns too, like one of them was “soup kitchen” what the hell does that even mean? “Yeah I'd say I'm a soup kitchen kinda guy” who the fuck says that?