Category: Antiwork

Throwaway account just in case Quitting my job has been something that I'd been thinking heavily about since the beginning of the year- actually, since October, but in January my boss said some inappropriate things to me (not sexual, just threatening my career with inappropriate language when I did something they didn't like, I won't go into specifics because I have a feeling it would be TOO specific) that just sat wrong. I'd already been miserable for so long because my office could easily be working from home 80% of the time but we weren't because of the boss's personal preference. We sit in a basement for 9 hours a day, when the work we DO get done takes MAYBE 3 or 4 hours. The rest of the time was just trying not to break down at my desk with nothing to do but not being allowed to leave. The…

So my sister works at a waxing salon, and today while she was with a customer someone came in and robbed the store at gunpoint. The manager, who was the only person at the front, gave the robber the money and he left, and nobody was harmed. Afterwards the police came to do their rounds of questions, take fingerprints, and left. The manager called the district manager, and the district manager insisted that the employees continue the workday. For anyone who has worked in in customer service positions and has been in similar situations, is this typical? I think it's cruel to make someone who just had a gun pointed at their face keep working as if nothing happened, but I want to know if this is expected working in customer service, or if the district manager is being a special kind of asshole.

Not sure if this is the correct place for this. I am a single dad of 2. I had been working for this company for 3 years. they recently laid me off on 1/23/22 due to downsizing and budget cuts. they still have not paid me, they owe me 12k. I keep getting the run around being told a date then it is pushed back when the date comes. I live and work in CA. After bills and a recent car repair I'm pretty strapped. Do lawyers for this kind of thing charge up front? They're not a large company but surely should have enough to pay me by now if not I think they may have bigger problems.

I think I may be SOL but I wanted to check. I’m a contracted office manager who’s client location is being shut down. There are no other offices for this client within 200 miles and I have absolutely no interest in working at the other offices my employer contracts with locally. When this office is officially closed can I turn down a transfer to the same position at another location and still be eligible to collect unemployment? I’m in Texas. I’ve wanted to quit this job for a minute so if I can ride out the clock with a dwindling workload then collect unemployment while I look for something more suitable that’d be ideal.

In Colorado. Apparently I didn’t have any, although the program we use that has all of my employment information said I did, they didn’t tell me and I had just found out some time later. Not sure what to think of this but I think it’s pretty shitty?

I work your typical bs 9 to 5 job. I have been stuck in the same position for years. At my last company, I had a great manager but he decided to leave, my company spent EIGHT MONTHS looking for a new boss, and he could NOT have been worse. Basically told me I was starting over from scratch as far as my career goes after working there 2 yrs. I lasted another six months before I said fuck it and left b/c he was so awful. Now, I've been at this current job for two years and just found out I'm getting a new manager again! I hear all the things like “Oh they'll make this dept so much better!” and all that horse shit. Im frantically looking for other jobs now. On to the next wage cage bullshit.

I constantly receive requests for quick, immediate deadlines for pointless information from management and supervisors. These same supervisors/managers, rarely ACKNOWLEDGE a request within two weeks, let alone provide feedback or information. For example, I asked for a wage review in august, mind you I’ve won a department award and a national award in the last two years and they are still REQUESTING INFORMATION. I work for a public agency with a regimented pay scale. If you don’t ask for it when you’re hired, there are few opportunities for pay bumps without a promotion. So some deadbeat guy is making way more money than me putting in way less effort and providing fewer results. How do I deactivate caring and trying!