Category: Antiwork

If we think of AI and it's ever increasing growth in our lives we can be happy about one of the positive things which will undoubtedly have to come out of it. Universal Income!!! It will be impossible for society to operate and function moving into the future without UI. Our lives will all get exponentially easier to a point where machines, systems, software, and robotics will be handling most mundane tasks. Soon it will be in our phones and in our ears and we'll be talking to it to manage our day. Think the movie “Her”.

So I work with an agency, and the guy who gave me work has given me work at a permanent place. Before I started working he told me that he will give me a pay of £120 a day. When my first pay check arrived, I realised I was underpaid by slightly under £10 a day. I told the guy who books me my shifts and he told me he will resolve this issue. I was totally fine by it and thought he made a mistake. The next week my paycheck arrives and I still am being underpaid. I know I am paid a daily rate, but for whatever reason, my check calculates me hourly. So it works out around £15.71 an hour x 35. But I work 37.5-40 hours a week. So I'm confused and tell him that my hours are wrong. I should be paid for 7.5- 8…

so, i’m 19, and a rising sophomore in college. i haven’t had a “real” job before. i need a job this summer to pay for some college expenses, so im looking at temporary and part time jobs.. but the problem is that a lot of these “entry level” jobs like working as a cashier or stocking stuff require you to stand all day. i have plantar fasciitis and it hurts real bad to be on my feet for longer than an hour or so, but it’s not generally regarded as a disability nor is it visible or anything so im worried i’d get yelled at for saying like, hey can i get a chair or a stool while im here? ive heard stories of people being yelled at for sitting while working at the register. man, i’d work from home if i could, but finding jobs seems really hard. it…

It seems simple enough to tell one employee to give them paid time off with a doctor referral if sick with an infectious disease. It would avoid infecting the entire company and avoid losing profits and productivity at the same time. If the employer either refuses or denies an employee to take time off work to recover, it would seem that the company could be held liable for damages if it resulted in the sickness of other coworkers. I currently have evidence that one employee admitted to feeling sick and my manager has also verbally admitted to being sick.

She openly humiliated colleagues of mine and myself in public settings, multiple people have quit because of her, but she’s friends with a VP and HR will not fire her. This is a white collar tech company job. I’ve since left, but is there anything I can do to make sure other people aren’t impacted by her/get her fired?

Recently a fellow coworker quit, some context recently the corporate overlords enforced a new system upon our fair supervisors to set daily goals which were draining all satisfaction from the work. They were specifically designed to each person for example if I do 150 units a day they would set the goal to 160 and if I hit 160 consistently they would set it to 170, all for the same pay. I’m not sure what was said when my co worker quit or why he quit but since he left the goals have become much more reasonable, and the push to achieve them has been relaxed. I honestly believe that quitting is what made them realize to not put pressure on employees. In conclusion quitting a bad situation to find something better can sometimes also help those still in that situation.

This is an update about this post and my entire leadership team’s HR investigation. You can see my original post about the issue here. After they spoke to my leadership team, everything got kinda strange. Slowly, my projects have been taken over and my responsibilities reduced, and no one updated me at all along the way. When I asked for updates or informed my supervisor about how they started treating me even worse, she would just say, “Just do what you can, and don’t let it get to you. Changes are coming.” Well, changes came today. After all of this mess, the anxiety about speaking out, dealing with subtle backlash, everything, I finally had a follow-up meeting with HR. The conclusion? They’re moving ME out of the department because it was “too difficult for me to work with so many moving pieces and communicate with so many people.” They came…

So I was just given a talking to by my assistant supervisor that I leave 1 minute early everyday to go home and gave a big speil on how we are contracted to give 8 hours a day yada yada. Conversation started with, how would you approach someone that is leaving early everyday? I soon realized he was directing the question at me and said well I would ask them if their watch is on the correct time. He then asked me, hey, is your watch on the correct time and then proceeded to say I cannot leave the parking lot until the exact time my shift ends. This is one of the many reasons I left my previous employer, the micromanaging bullshit like this just drives me batshit crazy, especially when I always get to any job I ever had 30 minutes prior to start, even sometimes finding myself…