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Got written up// Vent

Still in my first 90 days. One of my duties is to track the attendance of 75 people, broken down into three shifts. Morning, Swing, and Graveyard. Plus the 5-10 people that do another role within the company, ie maintenance etc. They just started enforcing the attendance policy and gave me a craptrastic excel sheet to record every employees attendance. It is not cohesive, it is a tiny list and half our employees are related, so many have the same last name. I simply could not keep up with people during a two week covid outbreak and made errors on the sheet and got written up for it-we had up to 25 people calling out every day. Today my manager and I sat down and she could hardly manage to maneuver it…and made error after error. I get paid barely above minimum wage, if this is SO important and ties…

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I was asked to resign from my job after 7 years

I have been working at a public charter school for the last 7 years and I have thoroughly enjoyed my job that entire time. Working with kids is my passion and there is so much I have learned about myself in all this time. When covid first hit I considered leaving because I thought the practices in my district were going to get people killed (which they did, but thats not the focus of my post) and I nearly turned in my resignation. I stayed from then and I have poured everything into being a model to these kids in the darkest time we have faced for a long while. But last week, my boss emailed me and said that I was not going to have a position at my school next year. I feel so betrayed and disrespected and the labor situation between me and my bosses has been…

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Laid off for 5 months

I work for a pretty big eclectic company. I joined the IBEW in May of 2021, and I'm not an apprentice, I'm a CW (Construction Wireman) so the company sees me as cheap labor. I work in solar, but since winter is the “slow season” its been hard getting projects to work on. I got a call back during the last week of September 2021 saying I was going to sit for a week or two. I didn't mind since it would only have been a few weeks. But now its going on 5 month and my crew I was with has been working the entire time. Being in the trade for such a short time, I'm not very good at the job. I'm a bit of a slow learner and I've been getting hazed by my co-workers for being new. I've been finding odd jobs to bring in money…

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What Antiwork is really advocating but not knowing is full on automation without the use of money

I don't get why people in this community still want to keep the monetary system when everyone knows that in a few years/decade automation is going to handle most labors regardless of we want it or not. Think about it, in a society without money automation is beneficial to everyone, but in a monetary system automation benefits only the elites!

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This seems heartless and unethical. Prove me wrong?

My manager told me today he's be giving $100 gift cards to a hand full of u.s. employees who worked on a successful project. I asked what about the India employees who also worked on the same project. He said he'd give them each 2000 rupes. I believe that's the equivalent of like $26. I thought maybe he made a conversion error and pointed it out. He says, “It's fine, that's a lot of money for Indians.” This seems wrong. Or am I wrong?

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my supervisor sent me home for doing my job

Hi all, I made a post a couple of weeks back on r/curlyhair talking about my experience with my supervisor (I'll link it below). Today I have a new story for ya'll with the same supervisor, so here we go. Please be warned, it is lengthy. If you've come across my last post then you'll know I work in the laundry department and as a custodian. My supervisor is someone I'd like to describe as power-hungry. If you are not at her beck and call at work 24/7 she will find anything to criticize and reprimand you for. Last Saturday I was on custodian duty. Custodians at my workplace have a cleaning cart and a list of all the tasks that need to be done for the day attached to the said cart. Amongst the duties listed, there is a little note on the lobby clean-up that reads “Lobby by…

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Co worker told me that I need to stay late

So I'm one of two people at a three person site (we only have 2) and well the work is not getting out on time. I told my coworker I get as much as I could out before my shift ended and she was like you need to stay late to get the work done. I was like no my shift ends at 5 I'm out at 5 they want the work done get a third person here. I'm not doing more for less.

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“Need an additional note from a doctor to work with a medical cannabis card”

Anyone know how common this is? I'm not even operating machinery. No forklifts and there's no special credentials required; just a basic entry-level warehouse job. I'm not using anything more complex than an airgun. I'm so tired of ableism in the hiring process jfc

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I was just let go for not “fitting in”

Honestly I started this job about 3 weeks ago. Via a job agency. Everything was going really well. I kick off my coworkers really well. It was for a customer service position, for an metal finishing company, it's an aerospace company. Now I have around 11 years of experience working in customer service. Within that, I have 5 years of sales, 3 graphic design, money handling, hiring process, and background checks. So being in something like this would be walk in the park. And it is. Now today around the time of the end of my shift, I get called in by my ex – supervisor. Basically telling me that I'm being let go for my lack of experience. And when I questioned it, she then tells me that she doesn't have the time to explain why, adding HR has already informed the job agency, they've ended my contract. I…

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My boss got mad at me for taking valentines day off

My boss as always been weird about me asking for days off. Im a daycare teacher and she always gets so weird when i ask for days off. She gets so annoyed when im unable to take an extra shift or come in earlier. One time she asked me to come in earlier, 8AM instead of 10AM. I told her i can do 9AM but not 8 because im taking my sister to school in the morning. she said “Thats not really helping but fine.” that pissed me off so much. about a week ago i asked for valentines day off. She got angry and said “why would you want to take valentines day off?” i said im hanging out with my boyfriend and she rolled her eyes. I would have quit my job already if it weren’t for my babies. I look forward to seeing my babies every time…