Category: Antiwork

I know that this shouldn't be a shock to anyone on this platform but I was watching some coverage on the Amazon stuff coming out of Alabama when a memory hit me when they were talking about some “special training”. Back when I started working at Home Depot (HD), they have video training that everyone does at the time of hiring. One of the videos they have a skit of some type union organizer trying to talk to an employee. They say in the video to politely turn them down because unions don't have the power to argue pay and benefits. I'm now in a very different profession and a great company but it really bothers me now as to how much better my time at HD could have been if I were to have been in a general labor union.

I think I've now seen it all. I was debating with some people about minimum wage and one of their defenses was “you get paid for what your worth” and so I asked them if a disabled person or a person who struggles just with basic day to day tasks deserves to be paid less. Their answer was unapologetically yes. This pissed me off so much, I've had a chronic liver problem (primary schrloshing colingistis) and ulcerative colitis since I was FOUR. as you can imagine that hasint left me very many options because my Medicaid has been paying my medical bills for all that time (there was a breife period where my dad had to cover some of my lab work because of his new marriage but that was still when I was a teenager.) And has quite frankly saved my life. this person believes I should be paid…

Well I’ve been with this new company 6 months going on 7. Got some industry certs last month. Wanted to update resume. Went on Indeed and added my certs as well as updated my employment. Got called in the office this morning by my boss and company recruiter and questioned as to why I was updating my resume. I wasn’t aware my employer could see this for one, and for two, how is this anyone’s business but my own? Anyone ever encountered this? Seems like a gross overreach by powers that be.

Initially, I got this job at a pretty popular restaurant in a college town thinking based off the interview that it'd be nice but the head chef always seemed to have a chip on his shoulder when it came to me. For the people he was cool with, he called them bitches and hoes and “Ms.Bitch,” which I never understood but just chalked it up to that being their way of showing their closeness. I came from a shithole restaurant before where my head manager was cutting my hours and I could barely make enough to support myself and my cat, so I took everything under the guise that this was a means to an end, nothing more. I took issue with the fact that, everytime we were on schedule together, he always had something negative to say about me or whatever I was doing, and I noticed this from…

Ive read a lot articles and online discussions about toxic workplaces. Ive come to a conclusion that there is some massive gaslightning going on when an employee complains in a forum that he/she is bullied at a workplace. And then the other people comment things like ”have you considered changing industries” or ”you need to apply elsewhere if you are unhappy in your current role”. None these bullshit comments address the real issue of workplace bullying at all. These are chickenshit self-defeating attitudes. Bullies need to be stopped, with lawyers if necessary. You can have a worker who is very satisfied in the actual job, but is bullied in the workplace. Workplace bullies most often have dark triad personality traits (narcissism, psychopathy, machiavellianism). If a worker is bullied somewhere by these predatory people, why in the hell he should ”change industries” or is labeled as ”unhappy”, when the real issue…