Category: Antiwork

I've been in manufacturing basically all of my working life. I just turned 40. I get paid maybe $10 an hour more than when I started like over 15 years ago. In 2016 I went to school for welding. There weren't any decent jobs doing that where I lived so I went back to the place I left. I'm welding now but even with all that work experience, it hasn't seemed to benefit me in any way. I want out and I have no idea what to do anymore. I don't want to be sweating and getting burned all day for pretty close to nothing. I may look into a community college program that's medical related or something. Maybe even something technology based. It just seems almost insurmountable to start over again. How did you get out of this line of work? What do you do now?

My manager had a heart attack on Friday. Mid 30s, he's fit, does BJJ. It sounds like he's probably going to recover, but not all that soon. Before work even started today his boss is reaching out to me to see if I can step into his role. Business is cut throat. Don't ever prioritize work over yourself or your family.

Throwaway because my normal username is connected to my public profile. So I've worked in education for a long time, and used to help run a summer camp. Months ago I got hired to be an assistant for a summer camp director at a pretty well known kids camp for a few hours a day, basically helping her manage the counselors, be her eyes and ears while she was doing administrative work, helping during the busiest time of the day, etc. I was one of the first ones hired for the summer. A week into the camp her two main assistants (basically co-directors of the camp) were fired for innappopriate behavior, and I was asked to take on a more full time role, but I couldn't due to other commitments. The camp was feeling the strain of being a little short-staffed. A couple weeks later (during some slow days at…

So I have been working full time at a minimum wage job in alberta for almost a year now. They have this pay schedule that makes no sense to me and sometimes we only get payed once a month. There are alway two “paydates” a month like the 7th and 22nd kinda thing which change every month and on top of that our cheques come 4 to 10 days after those dates. There is no way to create monthly budgets and pay bills/rent on time when my pay just comes whenever. Did a little research and it seems like it's legal. But just never encountered a place like this in my work history, its usually always paid on 1st and 15th. Anybody have any advice or even know if this is legit?

Hello I was recently fired from one of the top restaurant franchises in the world for asking for my pay. The owner let’s call him P is a not the best at keeping his employees happy. He has fired multiple managers in the past few money because of them not saying yes to everything he wanted. In around march i was promoted to a busser coach position along with another one of my coworkers. This promotion came with a increase in hourly from 4 to 6.50 a 150 dollar signing bonus for completing training. and a 150 per person trained bonus aswell. It took me fighting tooth and mail with management to even get my raise to 6.50. it took months, they locked me out of my paystubs so i couldn’t see how much i was getting and told me that it was never a thing. On Saturday which is…

Title pretty much sums it up, but has anyone else encountered this. My state has terrible rights and is insanely bad on protection of workers. APPARENTLY, it’s our policy that if you come in under 39hrs, they will deduct the difference from your vacation time. You don’t just get to be paid less or be short because I’ve tried. Every time category is separate in our system so we have our Vacation Time(80hrs)/ Sick Time(accrued at 4hrs per month) and then at the 1 year mark, you are awarded 5days of PTO. Has anyone else had this happen at their employer? I came in last week at 37 hours and I’ve now lost 3 hours of vacation time. There are many reasons why you could be short on hours, but my vacation time was supposed to mine to use how I needed it right? Thoughts?

So burnt out of work I've got it down to a science to try and do as little as humanly possible here. We're slow on work so it's not like it's entirely noticeable. Each task takes about an hour depending on complexity of said task. take 2 bathroom breaks in the first half of the day with about an hour inbetween each to make it not so suspicious. Take the lunch and slack off for the next 30 minutes while the managers are taking their full hour lunch (we get 30, used to be an hour before they cut ours in half for whatever reason). 2nd half of the day I just repeat what I did on the first half. Bonus points if one of the machines fail and I have to put an insane amount of time into it because they're old and our Maintenance team doesn't know how…