Category: Antiwork

It snowed yesterday, and I slid about 4 times coming home from work. Didn't want to risk it today, so I asked not to come in. Though “if they really need me, they can tell me no and I'll just try my best not to get into an accident” because we are under staffed. Yeah didn't work out like that. They said no, but did offer me a late start, but it was only half an hour. My though process was the roads are still going to be bad, and there will just be more cars and I lose money, so why not just come in? I got told, though text, that my supervisor is very frustrating because of all the w2s calling out whenever in snows and how I'm being passive agressive. Everyone comes off that way over text. I was “passive agressive” because I didn't take the late…

I never call out of work. I have over a hundred sick hours (supposedly) at my disposal. I’m in a labor union, in one of the most progressive states. I have crippling insomnia. I’m just now being told if I don’t show up and stay for at least four hours I’ll receive a point on my record that won’t be gone for a year. It will inhibit any promotion I apply for, no matter how hard I work. Fuck this stupid country and the fucking unfair labor laws.

So I've been unemployed for a bit now(not by choice), but got an interview for a job that was almost exactly the same duties that I had been doing at a previous job that I left just last year. I go in for my interview and nail it, they say I'll I'm the only applicant they've interviewed so far with any applicable experience and that I should get a call next week if they want me to come in for a second interview. So I wait, and I wait, and next week Friday around 2 or 3 pm they finally call me back after waiting until practically the last minute. Whatever, I go in for a second interview on Wednesday and meet the manager. Find out he's replacing almost his entire team in the department I'm applying for because they are unreliable, calling out sick at least once a week,…

Some of you may know that the MLB is currently in a labor dispute between the players and the owners. when looking at the dispute it can easily be dismissed as a case of millionaires vs billionaires. But I think that the negotiations are beneficial to the movement as a whole. The things that the players are fighting for are in some ways similar to things that the workforce as a whole is fighting for. Baseball promotions are based on pretty much merit alone how good you perform dictates how much money you could earn. This merit system is good as you will earn the money you should. However, life doesn't work out like that, and just like you at your own workplace working harder and better than you are paid, Baseball's owners do everything they can do to keep the players from earning the money they are due. One…