Category: Antiwork

So I’m living in Australia, and we are currently going through our worst recession to date. Rent is atrociously high and both wages and benefits are morbidly low. Up until February I was working full time but ultimately left due to some pretty traumatic abuse, so naturally I’ve been on benefits since. With the state of things though I’ve had to start looking for some part time and casual work as to not loose my apartment. I had an interview with a fairly well known business, minimum wage part time position. It was actually going pretty well for most of it, they were impressed with my level of experience at such a young age (I’m 22) until she had noticed that I’m fairly heavily tattooed. Nothing crazy but I do have tattoos on my arms down to my hands so kinda impossible to hide them all. Her attitude towards me…

Hey been wanting to share this but I couldn’t figure out how to word it properly, but screw it. Had 2 jobs before April: retail job and bar job. Got sick of the former due to its toxic work environment and ridiculous low pay for all the backbreaking work I put in, and started a job search back in January. Took me a while, but I finally got hired by Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream back in the beginning of April for an ice cream shop they’re planning on opening in North Park of San Diego, CA, and I was excited to join, partially due to it being in my neighborhood and promising it looked, and also partially due to me trying to quit retail. Because the shop was still being built at the time back then, me and every other person who also got hired were doing the onboarding process…

Header says it all. This was scheduled over the weekend for Monday afternoon. Would anyone like to help speculate on potential purpose to help me be even more anxious than I already am. Who has experienced this and what should I expect?

Hey all, I’ve recently got a new job that I’m actually happy with, 4/10s and good pay, treated right. BUT my insurance doesn’t kick in until June 1st and I’ve had a hernia acquired in the military that was not necessary to be operated on for years but it finally is, anyway they’re requiring me to have a return to work form in the mean time until my insurance kicks in I just can’t pay to go to urgent care atm for a note, I was hoping someone here would have some sort of a template or just any recommendations? Thanks in advance

TL;DR Another supervisor wants to dictate my mother's schedule. Hey folks. I want yall's opinion on this. My mother (call her Mara) and I work in the same office. She's been an admin for one of the department heads for 6+ years and I've heard plenty about this place. Lately, a persistent problem has popped up again. There's this supervisor (call her Beth) who has been hounding Mara about WFH. Now, when the big C started, work (a non-profit research and medical school in the Midwest) decided that department directors would dictate how WFH would go. Mara's director (who was her DIRECT, key word, supervisor) had allowed her to be out of office most of the week. Even after restrictions calmed and most came back to the office. Unfortunately, said director was let go because he was irrresponsible (that's another story) and now the department is in leadership limbo. In…

Hi everyone, I'm a grad student in Bioinfo. In my industry standard PTO to start is 3 weeks, normally increases to 4 after a set amount of time. A “year end shutdown” ( from Christmas-New years, a free week off) is also pretty normal. Just curious in what other industries this is normal. I feel like 3 week vaca is so much more manageable than just 2.