Category: Antiwork

I have recently started working with a new department and have heard that most of them wake up at 4am and stop working at midnight, skip lunch, work on weekends and do not take PTO or take it and work throughout. I was shocked and grateful that I am not on their team but I asked a few of them why they do it. They told me in many ways, “well yeah we work a lot but we make so much/a lot of money!” I found out that they make $80,000/year on average…. yes that is an okay amount but for dedicating your entire life and losing sleep/free time it is fucking pennies.

My husband is riddled with bad luck, but one thing about him is that when someone wrongs him, the karma comes back hard. (Example: A police officer gave him a speeding ticket and was arrested one week before his traffic court date causing his case to be thrown out.) He was fired just a few days before Christmas and this was when I was out of a job as well. I had planned to buy him presents literally the day he got fired but quickly changed my mind when he came home from work 6 hours early. This was really the nail on the coffin of a miserable 6 months where my husband was promised commission pay, but his manager always found the smallest reasons to put it off for an additional month. Then once this manager finally confirmed he would get commission, he was fired only 3 days after.…

tl;dr: I was drug tested twice after a work injury, lied to, and quit in a very satisfying vindictive way I worked for a factory that made brake components for companies like Honda, Nissan, and Kia as a temp on a “fast track” to be hired on full time. It was supposed to be maybe three months on this program, but I was in it for over a year and a half with no one approaching me to be hired on…. just one of the many things that made me hate this job. Anyway, this story isn't about that. It's about the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back which made me quit with a very satisfying F.U. moment. I had been injured on the job. We had a conveyor belt on our line that didn't work, a work order was submitted to maintenance two months prior and we were…

I recently saw a thread on here regarding the rounding clock and employees that would take advantage of loopholes by standing around the clock after their actual shift start because they couldn’t be disciplined because they punched in within the rounding window. You may thing you are rebels and sticking it to the man, but it’s actually just petulance that hurts everyone else. Like a little kid that was told not to touch their siblings and would put their finger an inch from their siblings nose saying “I’m not touching you!” I worked in manufacturing for a decade with a similar time keeping system. There were quite a few that took advantage. Production quotas suffered, making overtime necessary, and these same children were the loudest complainers when they had to work said overtime because of accumulated downtime. I’m all for meaningful change, fair pay, better health coverage, etc but some…