Category: Antiwork

2 weeks PTO, low wages, no sick pay. Etc.

I worked in a machine shop for a little over 3 months, and it was full of some the worst work culture I’ve ever seen. I decided to work this job Since I’m going to school for electrical work, and I worked building very basic electro-mechanical assemblies. The second I walked in my first day, they’re screaming homophobic slurs across the shop. I’m bi and I have a lot of gay family, but I just said fuck it, I want the work to get something better, even if just for the experience on the resume. I fucked up for expecting different things to happen. On top of school shooting and neo-nazi level jokes, in a crowded ass work space, I’m moving tons of metal, having to move shit without the proper equipment, almost getting hit in the face with metal constantly. In one instance, I had to block a co-worker…

Not in the US, so I wont ask if this is legal or not. Fuck my life, I spend more than 20 minutes a day probably.

I see many poor people have children, and even rich people send their children to live in poverty with no help or assistance. I think that if a parent loves his or her child, they have to do whatever it takes to protect them from it, not pushing them into it.

I work for a large company that will remain unnamed. This company has very recently decided to make some serious changes. The change I am speaking of today has to do with the work hours being moved. Today I was brought into a meeting with nine other coworkers for about half an hour. The operations manager dropped the ball on us that we would be starting and finishing our shift an hour later. It was made to seem like we would be voting on the subject, but it became apparent that it was being forced very quickly. Being on 2nd shift, where we already have an end time of 1 am, we would now be trapped until 2. To say the least, this news did not bode well with me. I was not the only one who felt this way. Speaking with everyone at the meeting as well as another…