Category: Antiwork

Due to some circumstances I've had to start looking for waitressing jobs to pay the bills. I've had a bunch of bad experiences so far but the worst has been about 30 minutes ago when I was told I'm too old for the job, the owner said he's looking for a “girl between 18-25 tops but you know, can't say things like that on a job ad these days hurr durr”. He continued by asking me if I was married, I said I'm engaged. He said “well you're engaged and in your 30s even if I wanted to I can't hire you because you should be focusing on having kids and if you get pregnant I'm gonna have to pay your maternity leave. Why should the government punish me for you having a kid? I'm doing you a favor really” Ok you mofo piece of sh1t. You're in a position…

I am the hostess at a restaurant attached to a hotel. Let me preface, I actually really like my job, the pay could be better but it's not bad but the hours are great, even in the off-season, and they have really great benefits, and management has always been straight with us. I hate our Call-Out policy. Ours is 2 hours advance, minimum. Our restaurant opens at 7:00am, my shift starts at 6:30 am. I get up at 5:30 am. The manager for the morning is also scheduled at 6:30 am. If the 6:30 person calls out we're supposed to call front-desk so they can leave a message with the time of our call and then we also email to GM of the restaurant as well. Today, and I mean right now, my bowels have decided to go all Ark of the Covenant on me and I've been stuck in…

You should absolutely be on your jobs subreddit/unofficial forum/et cetera advocating for better pay and work reform. Use reddit as a litmus test for how others are thinking about your job. Use what you know to deter, talk out new employees from joining. We can control the narrative and effect the outside world, but only if we do it together. Look at the Gamestop situation as inspiration of what's possible if we act together.

Tl;dr: There's no tldr, I'm just exhausted and frustrated and this is me ranting. Feel free to ignore. I've been working for my company for just over 2 years now. In the first 1.5 years, I was one of the (if not 'the') top performers in my team/department to the point that just after 15 months in, I was one of the 3 senior most people in my department and I was being pushed into a more leadership role. During this time, I was regularly putting in extra time (in some cases up to 12 hours a day). I wouldn't take sick/personal days and even when I did I was usually always available and was putting out fires. This was so frequent that it actually became a joke amongst my colleagues. 1.5 years later, I got the opportunity to go to grad school in a different country but finances were…

It's easy for people like Kim Kardashian to 'work hard'. For them, work consists of fancy dinners with clients and wearing designer clothes in front of a camera. For the working class, work is often miserable, alienating, and oppressive. How hard one works is not just a matter of personal choice and character, it's mostly determined by one's circumstances.