Category: Antiwork

This leads to incredible instability in workplaces as employees struggle to work with software systems that creates complexity and confusion. Upper management often doesn’t have the background or knowledge to think like a start-up to connect with their intended customers online. They may not know how to update the online presence of their business or what their website should look like. These situations can become highly emotional or people could feel insecure. Meanwhile, websites go unattended to for years and strategies aren’t worked out. Gaining consulting or working with an agency could be helpful, but that depends on the quality and skills of such resources. Upper management may not have realistic expectations of how tech strategies could work, or understand the test-driven aspects of organizational growth in a tech environment. Conflicts easily emerge, and employees are overworked as it is.

My fiancée works full time at as a guest representative 40hrs a week, 8hrs a day. Yesterday her boss told her that she is now going to start automatically deducting 30 minutes a day for all of the employee lunches whether they choose to take it or not. Before, her and her coworkers just ate their lunch when they had downtime. This sucks because that means my fiancée looses 2 and a half hours a week in pay and it brings our total income down a lot. Another dumb part about this is that her boss wants employees to still clock out if they leave the parking lot to go get food and that time won’t be included in the automatic deduction so if she leaves to go get food then she looses even more hours. I did check the labor laws and this is 100% legal apparently

This article states that a third of students are disappearing from CC. I can tell you, as someone who DID drop out the first go and had to return as an adult student (as well as getting the bachelor degree), this article dances around on the exact reason why. Most CC students are poor. Guess what? Most work when they're not in school. When times are tough, the first thing cut is education. Let me be clear — there is NO support for adult students. You are on your own and they tell you that. You better make it all work or you're going to flunk out. College advisors, at least in my experience, have been generally worthless. It was easier to figure out my own classes and degree plan. Most don't care enough to help you or they're too overworked. As for the “employer” tidbit — fuck you! How…

Not sure if anyone else’s workplace is implementing Employee Resource Groups, also known as ERGs. My workplace is pushing involvement in an ERG hard. For those of you not familiar, they are employee affinity groups for those that identify as from a certain demographic – e.g., women, LGBTQ, etc. I was considering becoming involved at work and then I came across something interesting. In an HR consultant blog I saw ERGs being mentioned as a way to prevent unions. In my limited experience it seems ERGs are just another way for the business to say they are addressing equity problems, but not really doing anything about it. Has anyone had a positive or negative experience with these groups? I’m really curious at what others think about this.

More whining from me – sorry! I just had my yearly performance review. Apparently I need to work on my tone in emails. The issues noted were me saying phrases like: “As explained before” “Please see email below” Stuff like that. I, for the life of me, do not understand how someone can complain about this. (I mean, I guess I do? Because everything online is just read with the worst possible intentions it seems. I just think it’s stupid.) It’s a fact. I have explained it before, the information is in the previous email. Why in the everloving shit do people have to take that as some sort of personal judgement and get pissy about it? It’s a neutral statement. In our damn trainings they tell us not to assume ill intent behind an email, but what? Because I’m at the bottom of the pecking order I have to…

Our office has been able to do remote work for the last three years. Last week they told us it's now officially time to come back in. It's Tuesday, I've been in the office for the last hour and a half and two coworkers are having a literal screaming match over pasta. Not kidding. Like there's going to be a fight over pasta. No one has actually gotten any work done. I'd like to think that it's management wanting to watch over us, but I came into the office yesterday and so far this week not a single manager has even acknowledged I'm here. So what's the point of all this? Edit: also got to hear passive sexual harassment to a coworker which also led to another argument. Management has still done nothing and pretty much ignored all the grunts in the office. These are fun times.

I worked a retail job recently and felt that I was a good asset for the store. My girlfriend ended up working there as well, my biggest downfall was telling them that we were dating. Anyway, I recently took up a different position at a different company to earn more money and have more hours as I graduated from college. Not long after I start the new position, I go back to my old job to do some shopping as I still like the store and the products they carry, and they occasionally host a game wherein you find a hidden item in the store and show it to a staff member to earn a dollar amount coupon to use that same day. My girlfriend was with me and I found one of the hidden game pieces. It should be noted here that employees are not allowed to win. Employees…

A little background: I recently lost my job of 2 years after my department was eliminated in a round of mass layoffs. Although I’m salty about having to find a new job and I miss my old role and coworkers, I did receive a decent severance package which has afforded me a little more freedom and flexibility during my job search. Unlike most people these days, I actually was given about 2 months of lead time before being let go, so I had time to line something up. I was really excited about an opportunity to work alongside a friend in an industry that I’ve been wanting to get into, he recommended me to the business owner who seemed equally excited to bring me on so we set up an interview. First he was supposed to call me to confirm a time, but then went ghost for a few days,…

I think governments should have planned ahead decades ago. This includes: Re-engineering our businesses and organizations to adopt new tech Keeping upper management aware of the latest tech concepts Assisting businesses and organizations with making good decisions with tech Implementing UBI and a greater safety net due to uncertainty Discussing changes to organizations such as becoming cooperatives and collectives instead of hierarchies Researching future impacts of tech on job changes and displacement Providing continuing education opportunities at low cost or no cost Providing consulting and additional resources to businesses so they can adapt and compete Creating new ways of working that reduces conflicts or confusion Discussing new work models such as marketplaces, crowdsourcing and project-based research