Category: Antiwork

It's taken me a LONG time to get to where I am now. The TL;DR version is that I went through a severely traumatic upbringing dealing with gangs, murders, multiple forms of abuse, etc. Understandably this continues the cycle, because such behavior is normalized. I never became the monsters I was surrounded with, but the PTSD is alive and well. So I was in my mid 20s before I was actually in a not abusive relationship and didn't have to ask permission to work. I wish I was joking. This means I'm behind as fuck when it comes to navigating office politics. Through my years in retail, I learned not to be so reliable, because people will take advantage. It took a long time for me to let go of the extreme high standards of work ethic and allow myself to be a person. I learned that the better you…

I gave my formal resignation last week because I got a new job. Zero response for over a week and then was told “ I acknowledge receipt of your message and you are training new hire next shift”. I already traded that shift to another coworker and made other plans. Supervisor calls me saying I have to show up because I didn’t get approval and it wouldn’t have been approved anyway. I apologized if I didn’t follow protocol but I found coverage and I will not be there. Supervisor says it’s a safety hazard for someone to work an extra shift. In reality company is just against paying overtime. The call started very aggressive about it’s a privilege to be able to work and I have a responsibility. Threatened with a no call/ no show and write up if I don’t show up. I started to laugh because I remind…

So I left a job over a year ago. Was super toxic. When I first got hired they hired two other people who literally left after a day so it just happened to be me and my manager who also happened to be his first time being a manager and boy did he suck at it. Anyway I dealt with so much bullshit at that place. Both managers used to gaslight me about anything to the point I started recording interactions and phone calls with them. So I find another job who was paying 25 an hour and wanted me to start immediately so I gave my shifts to other workers. Well the worker forgot to cover my shift and I got yelled at for it and fired. I honestly could of probably fought it considering I did have the texts as proof but being they were treating me so…

Just wow. I never thought it could happen at my company because we’re so small and have a great group, but wow HR sure doesn’t care about screwing over their employees. I’m a manager who recently had to provide an annual performance review for one of the employees – her first one. It went really well and everyone was happy. The employee asked about a raise and I said, while that decision is made by HR, I can tell you it’s typically between 3-5% depending on your performance. The employee understood. Keep in mind, this employee received a 5% increase after her first 90 days because she was doing such a great job which is unheard of at my company, but they really appreciated all she has done. Well, when I went to discuss the merit increase with HR they were definitely lowballing the number because of that 5% increase…

One of the benefits of working at my corporate education job was that we got to work half days on summers when ISDs don’t need direct assistance. After Covid, we were allowed work remote Fridays during the summer (yay) but had to work the full day because apparently remote work = not really working? I would rather work the half day in the office. Now we don’t get to work remote this Friday because we had Monday off (a forced non work day)? Like, if you don’t trust your employees to work remote, why are they even employed?

Noticed at work people do not read emails. Thinking about going old school and sending all emails as paper memos. Thoughts?

I’m currently trying to organize a union for my workplace (a movie theater). I did my research, have gotten enough positive feedback from my team, and am planning on calling our region’s labor board office tomorrow. What I want to know is your thoughts/advice on how to go about this. I live in an at-will employment state for reference. I talked to my republican parents about this, and they kind of freaked out on me. Now I’m feeling nervous about it all when I was feeling so hopeful. Please give me your honest opinions on whether I should go through with this and things I should know that research can’t tell me.