Category: Antiwork

I work in Florida, live in the west for labor law context. I am a service lead, I hire contractors to go fix things. (Keeping vague in case I get fired) My pay is 18.03 but was verbally told 19.20 “salary” but still signed like an idiot. My issue is with On call. I’ve worked here long enough so now have to be in the schedule or get fired for missing work. So now this is on call. You get $25 for that day, I source two jobs and don’t get another $25 until I source another job. 3 jobs to make $50. Sounds decent at first until you realize you also have to catch up on other peoples work for them after hours. Which can take over two hours depending on the day. And sometimes you can’t even source a job, which means I could spend 3 hours on…

hopefully someone knows the answer to this and can help out.. i figured i would ask here rather than a microsoft or tech support reddit because i hope you understand where i’m coming from. so the tldr is i’m hoping to leave my job soon (i don’t know what i’ll do next but it’s toxic as heck and a bunch of people already left and even more are leaving as well and i don’t want to be the last one). we have one drive at work and i’m currently moving all of my stuff to a personal usb stick/thumb drive/whatever you want to call it and deleting everything else. my question is though, if i delete everything from the recycle bin both off the desktop and off of one drive is there any way my employer can recover my files? thanks and i hope you understand where i’m coming from.…

A few times I came close, created a profile, uploaded the picture then looked at it and hated it, the picture, the name, my description, I wouldn't hire myself, and it's depressing. To be fair, I don't want the job either, I just want to feel wanted.

I don't understand it. How are people so obsessed with doing management work with no authority or extra pay? They want to be able to have a position of power with no backing. For what?? I have co-workers who actively fight to do extra work, they're not getting paid extra, and then they can make management decisions that can cause issues with others work plans because it works better for them? Like they're the top shit flinging monkey? Actual management turns a blind eye and allows them to do some of this bullshit and then I rail against this, then I am not a team player? Everyone just decides their own rules and I'm supposed to just go along with it? God I fucking hate this capitalistic country. I am so angry that calling out this behavior makes me look like the crazy and irrational person.

I’m so frustrated I’m honestly trying to decide if this job is worth it. I got a new job in a medical call center with the agreement being WFH after on-site training of 4-6 weeks. The office is 45+ minutes away from my home but I decided to take it as it was a (small) raise and temporary commute until I could work from home. It’s been 8 weeks and they keep delaying letting me work from home. First it was that I needed to do some specialized training because there were system updates so that added a week then they delayed it due to “late starts”. The company policy is that there is a 7 minute grace period before and after your start time. And with driving from so far away traffic would sometimes result in me being 1-3 minutes late so within the grace period but apparently the…

E.g. you work 1 hour of OT on Monday. You do not put it on your timecard. Boss lets you leave 1.5 hours early on Tuesday, and it's on you to lie on your timecard and say you were actually present all day Tuesday when you weren't in order to take this “PTO”. Makes the boss look good to keep overtime down. No real papertrail to indicate it's happening. Staff complicit, and bearing all of the risk. No way to justify hiring more staff, which we desperately need. What's a worker to do?

Ladies and gentlemen, Today, I want to talk to you about workers' rights not just as a legal concept, but as a fundamental aspect of our shared humanity. When we discuss workers' rights, we are not just addressing a set of regulations or policies; we are affirming the inherent worth and dignity of every individual who labors to sustain themselves and their families. At the core of the fight for workers' rights lies a profound understanding that work is not merely a means of survival, but an expression of our humanity. It is through work that we find purpose, create value, and contribute to the betterment of society. Every worker, regardless of their occupation or background, has the right to be treated with fairness, respect, and compassion. As human beings, we are interconnected, and the well-being of one affects the well-being of all. The conditions in which workers operate, the…

TLDR: I feel like my boss is trying to learn my skills so he can throw me away and do everything by himself. How do I make sure that I'm not being taken advantage of? I'll try to keep this short. I am not exactly an employee of a company. Rather, I have this friend (or boss) who designs websites and then I convert the design into an actual working website. I then get payed a fixed amount every month. There are no job contracts, it's a purely personal transaction. Disregarding the pay which is quite smaller than I want it to be (around US$ 5,300 yearly) for my job description (which is not limited to web development, and includes server administration, full stack software development, language translation, among others), he's an understanding person and while nothing is perfect, it's good working with him. Suddenly, I learned that now he's…