Category: Antiwork

I wake up at 6A.M.. groggy, I get up and flip on the light switch. The power is still on, thank God. I walk down the hallway to the kitchen where my decorations used to hang. We had to sell them to pay copays for my son's doctor visits. No breakfast as the fridge is empty. Pantry only has a few packs of ramen and rice and spaghetti noodles. No sauce. Black coffee it is. My wife takes me to work as I can't afford to get my car on the road. I may just sell it to pay down the maxed out credit card. She turns the key. She wonders how many more miles we can stretch the gas if we draft a tractor trailer on the highway. I get to work early and just stare at the building anticipating the day. I kiss my wife and say goodbye,…

I wake up at 6A.M.. groggy, I get up and flip on the light switch. The power is still on, thank God. I walk down the hallway to the kitchen where my decorations used to hang. We had to sell them to pay copays for my son's doctor visits. No breakfast as the fridge is empty. Pantry only has a few packs of ramen and rice and spaghetti noodles. No sauce. Black coffee it is. My wife takes me to work as I can't afford to get my car on the road. I may just sell it to pay down the maxed out credit card. She turns the key. She wonders how many more miles we can stretch the gas if we draft a tractor trailer on the highway. I get to work early and just stare at the building anticipating the day. I kiss my wife and say goodbye,…

I wake up at 6A.M.. groggy, I get up and flip on the light switch. The power is still on, thank God. I walk down the hallway to the kitchen where my decorations used to hang. We had to sell them to pay copays for my son's doctor visits. No breakfast as the fridge is empty. Pantry only has a few packs of ramen and rice and spaghetti noodles. No sauce. Black coffee it is. My wife takes me to work as I can't afford to get my car on the road. I may just sell it to pay down the maxed out credit card. She turns the key. She wonders how many more miles we can stretch the gas if we draft a tractor trailer on the highway. I get to work early and just stare at the building anticipating the day. I kiss my wife and say goodbye,…

I've been trying to find a school that's closer to home. I had a phone interview last week and the Assistant Principal seemed super excited about my skill set and what I could bring to the classroom. Interview was supposed to be today at 10 am. I arrive on time and check in with the receptionist/secretary. And wait. Waited and waited. This isn't a fucking doctor's visit or a blind date. Someone could have let me know, “Hey sorry we are running behind, thank you for waiting!” or whatever. The place was practically empty, but I could hear people talking from offices behind the reception area. So after a good twenty minutes I got up and told the receptionist I was no longer interested in the position. And I left.

thoughts and experiences in the U.S. ??

Hey, I asked today if I can reduce my hours but not my work load. My boss told me that is not possible, but he can give me more work as it seems I have capacity! and that was that… I feel penalised, what's the natural next step?

I’ve been working as a domestic worker for a single family for 8 years now. Pay and benefits are great, but my bosses are rather toxic ppl. I’m rarely addressed and when I am, it’s usually for purpose of ritual humiliation and mockery. My work was never reviewed, or given any feedback (except negative when they find an opportunity to do so). Basically I feel like I’m working in a vacuum. I’m solely responsible for technical maintenance and hygiene of their 20K sqft home, plus additional properties. They haven’t fired me yet, so I guess they are satisfied with my performance (in their way.) It’s a “new money” millionaire family, they’ve inherited family business and now just skimming off profits and living off stock market dividends. They have at least a 10K other employees who are severely underpaid (from what I overheard). As much I’m enjoying my salary and benefits,…

I’ve seen a lot of posts about wage theft regarding being “on-call” to answer emails, calls, and text messages from supervisors and coworkers. I want to be non-confrontational since I just received a promotion but I feel as though I should be paid when answering emails or messages on days that I’m not scheduled to work. How do I go about this or am I wrong since answering these communications only takes a couple of minutes? It would feel silly to clock in to respond to an email but all the minutes I spend will add up significantly after a few months.

Is it bad? I want to learn new things that I don't use in the area (I don't have the software to use) but that are related to what I do and are important in career development, during the time I have nothing to do. I stay at work from home most days and I have my personal pc nearby, I could even do the Teams trick of having a meeting with myself and using my pc but I don't think I'm doing anything to have to hide it, besides not being practical to switch between computers. The only thing is that I want to use the courses I bought and for that I'm going to use my personal email to log in, which I don't even think is absurd, since the company even offers udemy for employees but I don't want to have to do it there. But tell…