Category: Antiwork

Decades ago, I had a girlfriend who worked for only one day as an office temp at a hell hole of a company. Her boss “Linda” told her to shred some documents. But Linda was a bit rude. So my girlfriend says okay Linda, I'll get ALL the documents shredded for you. She shredded the documents and then she started shredding all of the other documents in their big file storage room. She spent the day shredding everything. She shredded all of their tax records. She shredded all of their personnel files. She shredded all of their insurance files. She shredded everything she could get her hands on. My girlfriend was quite attractive. So various guys who were working at the facility would find their way over to her area to talk to her. They volunteered to help her shred files. She had several guys helping her load files into…

Alright ladies and gentlemen, I have a story to tell. After reading everything, I ask that you give your opinion. For the past 18 months, I have worked as a server for a particular steakhouse “in front” of your eyes. The job itself was fine, I found that I enjoyed it and was very good at it! I quickly made myself known. This particular place was very dependent on seniority/capability. (You start with 3 table section. By the time I left I had 10-12 tables). Though honestly I tried to help beyond just being a good server. I would make suggestions about better ways of doing things, I would voice the opinion of the staff when no one else wanted to say anything. Honestly the coworkers were great, but the manglement would ALWAYS try to screw people over. The easiest example is their introduction of the SA position. They attempted…

My employer put out a survey this evening to hourly staff, to gauge interest in special lockers for personal items (phones) to go into during our shifts. The lockers would be mandatory, “but each locker is equipped with a usb port for a phone charger to plug into!” Staff can unlock the lockers at designated times (beginning of the day, breaks, lunch, and end of the day). Or if staff had some sort of emergency, the supervisors would be able to get into the lockers. The answer choices were 0-10. 10 was along the lines of “This is a great idea, and will increase productivity.” 5 was “I’m indifferent to this idea.” 0 was “This idea would lead me to seek employment elsewhere.” It went about as well as you might think. One of the staff wrote on the bottom of the page, “I’m quitting just because you even thought…

So full confession, I am management in a family business. But I feel that the folks in here should hear about this, because its the kind of garbage that is being tossed around at my level. I had a couple guys come in and wanted to talk to me. They were from the NFIB, the National Federation of Independent Businesses. Basically, they're supposedly lobbyists for small businesses. Honestly, rimshot at this point. So they had a bunch of right wing screeds they were putting out, which just made me laugh. I suppose assuming a lot of small business people are on the right wing is playing the odds, but not in this case. Asked me what is my major federal concern, and I said healthcare, and that I think its a pro-business point of view to have universal healthcare (its good for fucking everybody unless you're part of the vulture…

Is this a thing in adult (and by adult, I mean a work place where everyone is physically, mentally and emotionally, ok, for the most part adult) work environment? A friend's boss' boss told her that she were being insubordinate to her boss because she challenged her boss' “your guilty” assumption and told him to ask before he accused her. Btw, this is the second boss that is acusing her of not doing something she already did. If you followed this train of thought, give yourself a gold star. Quite actually asking for a friend.