Category: Antiwork

Buckle up, peeps. It's a long one. I've (29) been working as a dental hygienist in the state of Connecticut for 6 months now. I am not new to hygiene but I am new to the area. I have never worked in a dental office like this ever in my life. It started out ok. Everyone was nice enough. Some people had attitude problems but didn't seem personal so whatever. About a month after I started the other hygienist (in her 60s) there called the dentist and told her that I was saying all kinds of nasty things about her. Mentioning how I didn't like the office, how I didn't like working with the dentist, etc. She would twist a lot of what I was saying into something completely untrue. The doctor confronted me about this and I was honest saying I don't know why she would say all of…

I work for Walmart and say we need to unionize! Fuck this company, and fuck the corporate shills! Any Walmart employees in this sub, join me! I'm going to start bringing it up at work tomorrow. Unionize!

I’m in a university that’s in the middle of nowhere and it’s known to be easier than most, but the workload is still so insane that I’m getting very close to suicidal. Teachers who made it don’t care about the workload they’re putting out is too much for just even one lecture. They work at their pace and expect you to keep up. But don’t account for mental illnesses or just basic fatigue. Most students just shut up and like any capitalist, fall into the hustler mindset and grind away saying this is how it is. Of course people like me who can’t survive in a place like that seeking answers here is dangerous too but people like to say what they want and fee like they contribute to something. But when it gets to something like 9 pages of math per hour for someone with ADHD or worse, we…

I started a job in a new city and left within the first two weeks. First red flag was the schedule, which in the job description was stated at four 10 hour work days a week (Monday-Thursday) with possibility of Friday on-call days (overtime is paid at 1.5x). First Thursday rolls around and my manager asks me if I want to work on Friday, I say no and he says you should expect to work every Friday for the next two months at least. On what was to be my last day, we are wrapping up a Wednesday when the owner, as he walks out, tells the manager that we have to stay until everything is done (about 2 hours more work) and we have to wait around for a new shipment to arrive before we can even get started (being vague on purpose to not implicate things…). Turns out…

According to my “congrats on 1-year with the company” email, I have performed 91,113 COVID tests so far. The state pays for all supplies, personnel, and overhead… PLUS $50 for each test we perform. That means that I have made my company $4.55Million in the last year. …for Christmas, I received a gift basket of crackers and olives, which cost $36… …and today I found out that my company doesn't provide any maternity/paternity benefits outside of what is required by state law.

Genuinely curious as to where my own awful interview experience stacks up — I work in media, and after an HR phone screening, multiple edit tests, and SIX in-person interviews (with multiple people each time) where I had to leave my own office for over two hours to get there and back, the company called and asked me to come into their office a SEVENTH time, promising it would be the last. I think at that point, even they knew how ridiculous it was getting. And my boss at the job I was trying to leave thought there was something seriously wrong with my health, given the seven “doctor's appointments” I had to leave the office for (pre-pandemic) in the span of two months. The real kicker is that they *did* end up offering me the job in the end … for $20K less than asking. Leveraged it for a…