Category: Antiwork

Someone close to me is a nurse and it is impossible for her to feel an ounce of empathy for just about anyone because she’s so overworked from her job. I get it, the job sucks, capitalism sucks, but damn- do you really have to take it out on the people you love?

I work for an unnamed security firm and I told them I can try to request time off to work an event but wasn’t sure I could. They said thats fine and got me a guard card (took my finger prints and test) for the state that the event was in. The problem lays where they called me Monday to ask me when I’m showing up, I told them Friday evening is the earliest. I called them today to ask where I needed to go tomorrow and they said if i don’t show up tonight I’m going to be billed for the hotel room they got and the guard card fee. Are they allowed to this ?

I've recently come to realize just how much of a farce management really is. I basically just report the same thing every day in my meetings and no one bats an eye or follows up. I can work on the same thing for weeks at a time without anyone noticing. Management never has enough work anyways and I could complete all of it without my team in a week. Anyone could do it all in a week. We're just not interested in being rewarded with more work or seeing a coworker let go because there isn't enough to do. Management thinks they're hauling a** and keeping us busy. They see our metrics continue to tick over and they see the completed tasks increment regularly. They hear the buzz words they want to hear at our meetings and we all keep what we have to say brief because we're so “busy”…

This is the problem with everything in the world now, if you are not rich you don't exist.

I have been very happy in my job for four years and never raised a complaint. I’m self employed even though I work for a company and rely heavily on commission. My diary is at times empty but I am busy enough. Of course the more clients I have the more commission I earn. Ideally I want to be working more there which they are aware of. We have a relatively new manager at work who has been recruited to help grow the company. He is now bringing into the company someone he knows to do a similar role to me. This person is more qualified than I am and therefore will bring additional skills which is great. But… I have been really keen on a new skill I have been offering and hoped to really develop my knowledge and expertise in it, it is a high ticket item. I’ve…

One of my best friends (whom I also worked with) recently quit from the job we had. She was in a different role than me, and my boss looked for a replacement but couldn't find one she liked, so she offered me the position as I'm technically the next step down and have the highest seniority. When she initially sat me down to offer me the role she didn't have salary numbers at the time, but I accepted believing she would pay me at the same the previous person had since we both have the same experience, have been here about as long (she had me beat by 2 months) and are both learning the role from the ground up. However she just emailed me salary figures and lo and behold it's about $900 a year less than what my predecessor was making. To me that's no small amount. In…

I work for a maple company in Vt. We had a particularly bad season this year, and we didn't produce nearly enough syrup to turn a profit. With no warning this week, all of the sap house and woods crew employees were told that they (myself included) would be subcontracted out to a construction company as manual labor and truck drivers or you have to quit. This includes full-time staff, which I am. I have been told that we would be paid by our company, not the construction company, so we aren't being laid off. I was hired as a full-time employee. I know state law can be tricky, but is this legal? I would like to find a different job that suits my skill sets, but if I quit, I dont qualify for unemployment. I already sent an email and left a message at the state labor department, but…