Category: Antiwork

TLDR at the top: 8 top comes into my restaurant and is all things listed in title and gets upset that I stood up for myself. Why do people think it’s normal to treat waitstaff as cannon fodder and say things that are just not socially acceptable. I am a 24 y.o. transwoman pre hrt but I am already out to everyone. I came back from a break at work today and immediately got sat with a group of obnoxious drunk folks. They start cracking derogatory gay jokes amongst themselves before I get the chance to greet them. As I greet them (welcome them to restaurant and introduce myself) they immediately snap at me saying I don’t match my name and call me a mans name. Ive had this happen before because someone was ill informed so I let it slide and corrected what he said. He immediately replies asking…

I just feel so burnout and overwhelmed that I can only find jobs in my area that will pay around 15 dollars an hour. My girlfriend makes around the same so that means we can maybe only afford 1300 in rent combined? The MEDIAN average for rent in my area is around 1700 so yeah we can't afford that unless we split a small studio. Even 1500 a month would be a stretch to split if you are doing the “you need to make 3x your rent in order to qualify for the rent. I just feel defeated I don't know what to even go to school for because I just lost all motivation and ambition to move forward. I just feel stuck every day waking up and working at a job that;s not helping me achieve my goal. I am so close to just telling my family I have…

Who here feels hopeless over the state of the world, and how hard we have to work and barely making enough to get by?

I despise my parents. Thanks to them not wearing a condom, I now have to live a pointless life just to be exploited and serve as another one of society's drones. I never signed a contract saying I wanted to be a part of this rat race, but of course just being alive forces me to be dragged into it. I'm almost done college, and I'm not looking forward to starting my journey as a wage slave for the next few decades. Well thats only assuming I can find a job in the first place. Just to put food on the table and survive, I'll have to beg for a job like every other drone in this rat race, via job applications. Even if you do manage to land a job, society will still find a way to judge you based on your salary or prestige. Just getting a job…

Is it legal for my boss to force me to stay for a 30 minute lunch every time I clock out even 1 minute past the 12 hour mark (even if it's not my fault and reports takes longer than expected)? For reference I live in California. Recently I've been told by my boss that it is required of me to have to take a second lunch due to California law requiring 2 separate lunches after 12 hours worked. I find this unfair and quite frankly uncalled for as I am placed into a position where I have to take additional time out of my day to subsidize my company's inability to properly handle staffing. Although this additional 30 minute lunch is paid, it doesnt negate the fact i have priorities to attend to immediately after work as well as getting enough sleep for my second job. Having to take…