Category: Antiwork

I'm a 2IC for a small but popular retail chain in Western Australia. We've mostly avoided the pandemic thanks to having a pretty clued in Premier (think Governor but Australian), but recently because of the omicron outbreak we've had to start wearing masks again. Don't get me wrong, wearing a mask sucks. It makes it hard to breathe, and I can get a pretty sore throat after 9 hours of wearing one. But you know what? I push through, because I don't want to put myself or anyone else at risk. Our area manager has a KPI that says he cannot have more than 6 customer complaints per month, or else he loses his bonus. They don't have to be valid complaints, just complaints. Unfortunately, this means he has told us to just ignore people who don't wear masks, and never to ask them to wear one if they don't…

My Fiancé had been in her job for around a month now. The job description had said, she would be working Mon to Fri with every other Saturday off and every Sunday and bank holiday being off. ( United Kingdom ) So far she hadn't had one Saturday off and she generally feels like she neither has personal life nor any time for our relationship. I work as a head chef and part time musician late in to the evenings so as a consequence we are like passing ships. The conversation at home mostly comes down to talking about her issues in work , and it gets very frustrating, repeating your self with advices , and no action being taken out of fear of the bosses reaction. Well today, the bubble had burst and after careful planning, she had submitted her resignation. To my disbelief , the owners of the…

my friend was recently fired from mcdonald’s. she had covid and obviously couldn’t go into work so they replaced her. she went to return her washed, dried, and folded uniform to get her check. they said they wouldn’t be giving it to her until she brought the uniform back dry cleaned, with the tag attached, in the bag. she told me the uniform wasn’t dry cleaned when she got it cause there was no dry cleaners tag attached. are they allowed to do this?

Interviewer: “We notice that you change jobs roughly every so often.We're looking for a long term commitment.” Me: “No problem, as you can see I've stayed with several companies for longer terms, but had different positions within those companies. Interviewer: Oh right… Also, if we continue the company will offer a 6 month contract through a recruitment/employment agency which comes down to at-will employement and when that period was satisfactory they might offer a 6 – 11 month contract with another 2 month probation (but there's a good chance of being offered a permant position afterwards). That's just standard, everyone who makes it through the inital time of recruitment/employment agency, generally won't be reminded of their probation in the next contract, since by then the company will know how well you function.” Me: “Nevermind.”

My impression is it should be the first, but I’m repeatedly being told it’s the second, only for the assumed promise of promotion to be broken and I’m left with a larger work load and nothing to show for it. I’m not sure what to do now, either move to another job and lose all the progress already made, vs stay at the current and just hope it eventually rolls around.

A VP where I work was just promoted to Executive VP even though 2 departments they're responsible for have been hemorrhaging cash, clients, and staff for the last 2 years. I am untrustworthy though, because I don't spend off work time doing off work things with the CEO… anyone have any course work for bootlicking?