Category: Antiwork

Summer here is 80ish Fahrenheit on average, up to 95+. In previous years we were allowed to wear shorts but management has changed. The policy now is that “Because we're on a hybrid work schedule, the dress code will be enforced during in-office days.” So even though it's uncomfortably hot out, the fact that we're allowed to work from home two days a week somehow uh… provides cooling? Not sure how that works? So putting aside the sheer inanity of this policy, I'm not quite ready to hunt for a new job yet so I comply. I wear shorts into the office and then change into pants for work. Well I got an email today from my manager saying that “Multiple people have complained that you are wearing shorts in the office so I wanted to remind you of the dress code.” Yep. Someone tattled on me because I wore…

A new compliance tool has been released at my work. The registration process of it requires the use of an email. Not a particular problem, except for some reason it won't accept my work email for registration. My coworker then told me it requires a personal email address to register. He told me he just created a new burner email to register and that's it, but i still wasn't comfortable with that. I don't want any more of my personal information connected to work than i have to, even dummy emails. I'm not crazy for this, am i?

I have two coworkers who commit fraud on the daily and aren’t even knowledgeable about the basics of what we do. When they figured out that I caught on, they both staged an incident which they knew would push my buttons and they thought they got me fired. They really tried to throw me under the bus for a work mistake they were largely responsible for. 2 months later I am back. The company is laser focused on them instead and I’m now being cross-trained for multiple departments and in a few months I will probably transfer. Thanks for the promotion, assholes lmao.

I work at a state job and our office hasn't gotten a cost of living raise for ten years now. Well we got an email saying they are no longer offering paid overtime. A bunch of us worked overtime because of the money. So this is the last week we will have paid overtime. Just need to vent because I am sad about this. I do work two jobs to make ends meet.

I can’t work at the Mach speed they want me to. I’ve said I’m stressed about the work because they keep piling more on but it keeps being dismissed as me not “prioritising,” and now they’re hauling me in for a meeting. I’m waiting on a neurodivergency diagnoses and legit think that has something to do with my speed and processing, but the whole reason I’m being pulled into this meeting is because I work extra hours to catch up. I’m so tired of being worried if I’ll be fired for the smallest things. Feels even though I bust my ass I still can’t do anything right.

A few years ago I got hired with the county. My boss was a bit rigid but being ex military it wasn't anything I couldn't handle. About 3 months in, I noticed her attitude towards me had completely changed. She was outright treating me like trash and making my life hell. Turns out that someone had found my fb and notified her that I was a shibari instructor/Artist. When I went to HR about the treatment and told them the cause, they came back with “she denies that this is the reason, and says it's purely work performance related.” So because of this treatment I started ramping up my business and soon enough I was making more money doing shibari than I was working for the county. So two days before Xmas in 2022, I packed my office and dropped a box of things that needed to be done off…

I have been terminated due to my poop being longer than 6” and not being lowered by hand. Anything I can do about this unfortunate situation?

For real, if you want a fantastic anti work anime/ manga check out Zom 100. Whole story is about a dude working in an incredibly abusive workplace that just whittles him down to a nub of a person where taking their own life sounds better than going into work the next day. Then BAM zombie apocalypses happens and he is immediately hyped as shit since he is no longer constrained by capitalism and can finally do everything he wanted to do previously. Manga is fun as hell and it seems like the new anime adaptation is getting the AAA treatment so well worth the check out.

I live in Florida and my job is making us clock out 30 mins for break and 30 mins early. My shift is technically 7 to 3, but bc of the 30 min break, we stay back til 3:30 to get back the 30 mins so that we complete our full 8 hour shift. Now with this new “policy”, we will be only amassing 7.5 hours each shift and that is not fair. Is this legal?? Please help! EDIT: I would like to add that in the break room, there is an example of a “missed punch form” paper. On the example it says: “Punch in: 7:00am” “Punch out break: 12:00 pm” / “Punch in break: 12:30pm” “Punch out: 3:30pm” Im pretty sure that is there for state purposes. That example implies that you are to earn your 30 back.