Category: Antiwork

Fuck. Sorry, just wanted to vent. Can we eat the rich yet?

I began work as a insurance specialist under someone who has 7 years under their belt, and they were leaving in 2 weeks. I will add this is a private clinic all managed by one physician. It turned out to be a sink or swim teaching method, which I have never agreed with. I would be shown something once, and expected to do it perfectly from then on without any help. I was also expected to give the same exact results as the 7 year person, with the same speed as well. I was even told at one point to just figure it out and not ask for help. This by the physician. Now I have some experience with insurance in the medical filled, but I was not prepared to start this job on my own on day three. I was already expected to go over surgery cost and benefits…

I recently worked at a Buc-ee's location and although the pay was decent, $19 an hour, the break policies as well as the way they treated employees was abysmal. For starters they don't even have breaks, just something called “moments”, which is a 7 minute period that they allocate for you to eat. Then, they get upset if you go to the bathroom for too long. I was literally told by my manager that I was “away from my station for 15 minutes and 7 seconds throughout the shift” for this time I was in the bathroom or assisting customers find something in the store but, I guess the other 3 people in the fudge area can't handle the section by themselves while I help a customer. Lastly, they only provide 10 absences a year even if excused so, when I caught covid-19 I was fired even though I was…

I am serious, right now I am trying to find the cheapest land available and get into some high valued IT trades like database management (SQL/Azure etc). Y'know God forbid individuals can have more free time and prioritize their health more. I would pay people $1000 a week minimum to help tend the farm and provide free housing in return, because I want to help people have a more stress free life, though I really do want to see what others on here think, and if anyone has experience with farming.

As the title says, my department is a few hundred people. We have endless directors and VPs, yet none of them are capable of handling even the simplest escalations. They can't make a single tough decision, so our entire department basically performs at bare minimum performance. People doing the work simply stay in their silo because they don't give a shit. (Who can blame them?) The best is that eventually serious issues can't just be ignored forever, so once leadership is forced to move on it the issue has become far worse than if they had taken 10min to review and fix it months ago. Pretty depressing to watch people being paid $200-$500k/yr do less than pretty much anyone beneath them. There is zero accountability, so I guess how can you blame them. Corporate America is so amazing! /s

something that always gets me about capitalist bureaucracy is the absolutely unnecessary rules it creates that add no value or benefit and literally only make workers’ jobs worse for example, at my last job i was a host at a restaurant, and during the summer, the hosts were forced to stand outside in 90 degree heat and in direct sunlight for 6+ hour shifts. there was a lobby in the restaurant where the host stand was set up for the rest of the year (and people never had any problem finding it!) but during the summer, my manager decided it would be “more professional” for us to be sweaty and sunburnt outdoors. additionally, there was a big umbrella for the host stand to provide a circle of shade, but we weren’t allowed to open it without a manager’s permission, and on several occasions they refused our requests because “it wasn’t…

I was recently turned down by a potential employer because I have a couple of piercings. He initially liked me but was very turned off by my piercings.(nothing even crazy) after talking a minute he asked me “do they come out?” I said “yes sir they come out, but I'm not taking them out, especially for 9 doll hairs an hour.