Category: Antiwork

I know there's a lot of posts on here where the response is ALWAYS to give the bare minimum notice – 2 weeks no more. But…. im thinking of a giving a 4 week notice, not to help my employer by giving more time or anything, but because I want them to stop giving me cases. I would literally say, “I'm leaving in 4 weeks, x is my last day, I'm happy to finish out the cases I have and complete all documentation in that time. However if you keep giving me new cases, I'll have to focus on those and won't have my documentation completed by the time I leave.” For context one of my reasons for leaving this job (social work/case management) is the unrealistic workload which has led to my burn out. So my rationale here is to make the case to my supervisor that they shouldn't…

After over a year working this job, and many empty promises, I got a raise! An entire 25 cents! Boy oh boy do I feel appreciated! I have an interview for a different job this weekend, so hopefully I can leave this place and never look back.

Love the corporate spin — “in-sourcing” IT & part of that plan is all company help desk services are moving to India. “Dedicated, uniting, exclusively support, deliver value” U.S. companies need to keep work in the U.S. My Gen Z’r is in IT & it is concerning.

I can’t be the only one who has been canned after complaining about undelivered benefits. Employer is a millionaire but made excuses for delayed in benefits etc… when I confronted him he terminated me. This was after a meeting with HR. No one will help. I’ve contacted law firms but not a single one will take my case. It seems like a giant cost-benefit analysis (they can’t make 6 figures so they aren’t interested). There are other things to address like (sexual, racial) harassment and even leaving an unattended fire arm with full magazine in the clinic. I have proof of the fire arm but no proof of the harassment. I work as a health care provider and was told to paint walls, put together equipment, and other tasks way outside my job duties. No benefits were delivered. What are steps I can do to get some resolution to this?…

I work in residential construction as an operating engineer. I'm an apprentice on the tlb/backhoe and getting paid about 50% less than what the laborers are getting paid. I'm subcontracted to the builder from a landscaping company, and my boss says to do what they tell me to do but stay in the machine. Sometimes I will get out (like if I drop something or the machine needs maintenance) but other than that I never get out. Some of the other operators do but they choose to do so and they don't have to. I don't have forks on my machine but was expected to stack a bunch of stairs in a hard to reach area. The steps kind of fell over and my foreman informed me that I have to get out of my machine to stack them properly if they topple over. I told him if he wants…

Just yesterday there was a post with many posters writing something like “When I apply for vacation it's just telling the company when it is” and many agree. I just don't get it, from the employee or employer side. Things need to be planned, and there might be a conflict in who takes vacation when and not everyone will like it but that's is when the manager needs to decide Then there is also some posters talking about how great vacation policy is in Europe, but it's no different here. We also need to apply for some dates and the manager needs to approve it and then manage the schedule. I mean, how would it realistically work otherwise? That is literally her/his job, to plan resources and work, but that requires you to know what is up and coming. can someone explain this? Do I miss something or are people…

I’ve given a lot of thought to what anti-work really means since I’ve been on this sub, and I can’t help but but feel like the name “anti-work” is a misnomer. Not just a misnomer, but completely contradictory. The owners are the ones who are anti-work. They’re the ones that treat labor as cost and weaponize their resources, position, and connections to devalue the real capital of work to exploit people who only have that capital to offer. Almost everyone here is a worker and most of the frustration here is the conditions in which we exchange our work and the (lack of) bargaining power we have to negotiate compensation for it. We’re cost. The need for us and our labor by owners is antagonistic to them. Just a Thursday morning thought to all of you complaining, entitled, lazy workers who “don’t want to work.” That isn’t what this is…

CONTEXT. I work in an NDIS provider in Western Australia. I have never met the Director/owner but I've met her husband who acts like the Director and does the pay runs(sorta) but keeps saying he's not the Director. I have a branch Manager who doesn't want to be listed as part of the organisation but keeps meddling with the business as he js a secret stake holder who workes for another NDIS provider. THEY RUN A SHITSHOW. I along with all the other staff get paid irregulary instead of a specific date every 2 weeks. I don't even know which clients are on board and which are not, when asked, I get vague answers. I have never met our two main staff and their documents are missing because the previous HR did not keep their documents and did not maintain any contracts of employments with them, they've simply been working…