Category: Antiwork

Hello, first time poster! I am starting a new job in the a few weeks. When asked, my boss has said that I do not need to bring anything for paperwork for my first shift. (The wording makes me think that paperwork will be dealt with another time.) Is this a red flag? That first shift is during a busy time, and having lurked here a while I am worried that this will turn into something along the lines of ‘you don’t need to do paperwork til after training, because we aren’t paying you while training, but we’re going to benefit from your work during busy season’. Any experiences like this? This is just my first time starting a job without paperwork being done… or an orientation. I like the job, so I’m really hoping it works out.

Applied for a position at a shipping company doing some warehouse work. Got a tentative start date and appointment to have my fingerprint scanned down at their office. Then just a few days before I start they tell me they are no longer accepting applications. I had already given them my person info, I9, direct deposit info as if I was already hired and now they say sorry find a new position? That's so fucked up and im lucky that I was only looking at this as a second job to help pay off debt, but anyone could have left their current job once getting all this set up only for them to be screwed over. This should not be allowed

Hate, hate, HATE the middle-management-CEO-kiss-ass behavior that has led a “normal” workday to now be 7-3, or earlier. Everyone in my office starts work at 6:30. When I first started, they asked what time I'd like to start working, and said I could start any time between 6 and 9:30. Coming from a completely remote job, I said 9:30, doesn't even matter why but I told them anyway, that's just what I'm used to, I can structure dinner around being done at 6, that's when I'd like to work. My manager literally immediately recanted and said “well 9:30 is actually a little late to start” so I said 9. So she repeated again that most people in the office start at 6:30 or 7. I don't her that's not in my wheelhouse and again she insisted most people start at 6:30 and wrap up at 3, so there'd be days…

Honest question, in today’s market, where they are so many layoffs I still see people who are burnt out. I just quitting on the spot and getting no severance pay. Is it because the risk of getting fired for cause thus no severance is high?

So I just heard from my coworker (very small grocery store) that when they work morning shift they need to be there fifteen minutes before the opening hours and prepare things, like: open the store, reheat sausages, count the register, check the dates for the fridge stuff and reduce the price from them. and they are not paid for this because the custmores aren't there yet. i got so pissed about it and told them that it is not fair and they should get paid for it but they think its fair because why would our boss pay us if we dont make any revenue. it is a job meant for a few months at maximum but its sickening. i worked a larger grocery store before that had rights and unions and stuff (not usa sorry) and its actually really weird how it works in the more low-income jobs.

This is my second job this year where I haven’t gotten paid for my labor. Why is this happening and why is it only happening to me in recent days rather than when I first started working in 2016? Is this becoming more common? I know this is against the law anyways but I guess my question is more like, why? I know corporations don’t care about you but can’t they do the bare minimum? Was I expecting too much from them?