Category: Antiwork

I’d been with my company for 13 years. I started as a temp on a production line and had been promoted multiple times and was currently working in a salaried role in an office area of our company when we got an email Monday afternoon announcing the company was laying off several hundred employees globally to achieve a cost reduction percentage. The next morning at 8am I received an email telling me I was one of the employees being laid off. Several others I work personally with who had also been with the company for a long time were also let go. This all happened while our private company’s billionaire owner doubled his net worth over the last few years during the pandemic while the company continued to induce more and more cost-cutting measures that were blamed on Covid and were supposedly temporary while telling us that we’re a family…

This is more of a vent than anything about job hunting. I’ve been out of a job since December, and I keep looking for jobs but it’s so difficult. I don’t have a car so I’m reliant on my mom but she’s always helping my sick grandma so she can’t take me to night shifts. Literally 90% of the jobs in my small town are retail so as soon as they see I can’t come in all the time they ignore me, and I don’t know what I can actually apply for anymore. One of the most frustrating ass things is being completely ignored. About 5 of the places I applied to won’t ever even deny me, they’ve just kept me as ‘under review’ for months. I don’t get why a simple no you’re not hired email or call is that hard? I live in a small town, it’s not…

Title says it all. I work for a mortgage company and have 2 main bosses. They’re co-branch managers basically. We have maybe 15 people in my office. Or we HAD that many. Over the last several months they’ve laid off 4 of the most important people because they “couldn’t afford to keep them on.” They also told me just last week I couldn’t get a raise, and that at this point I should be happy to just have a job in this market. Today the other boss remarked to me that we wouldn’t have had to fire the people if we didn’t have to pay the other bosses wife 5k a month. I was taken aback. The lady doesn’t even work at our company. I make HALF as much as her. Her name comes up in the company directory though. Wtf. Her husband (the other boss) is crazy hardcore about…

So my workplace tried changing my roster from 6am to 6:30am start and end half hour later. The problem with this is I would be missing out on half an hour of penalty rate each day. I took the proposed roster change to my union and they helped me to dispute it. Unfortunately there was no opportunity to leave the roster as is but we found a resolution which involved working an extra hour on Sundays to make up for the lost penalty rates. This resolution means I don't lose any money (I actually end up about $2 per week better off). I added up how much this was worth to me over the course of 1 year and it would have been almost $1000! I'm not thrilled about having to do an extra hour on the Sundays if I'm honest but it's a lot better than losing that 1k…

We all got some tiny ass yearly raises today and I was talking to everyone seeing how much we all got and discovered that our key holder never got her raise from being promoted last year. They told her she’d be getting more but they only gave her the standard raise everyone else got. She’s been making the same as everyone else this entire time. We wouldn’t have found this out if we hadn’t talked about our paychecks. Remember that it’s illegal for a company to tell you not to talk about wages and that they’ll do absolutely everything in their power to screw you over.

i work at a fast food chain, and for a couple months now there’s been a leak in the back that just builds up and multiple employees have slipped on it at this point, i know a work order has been put in and they’re just not doing anything to fix it

Just started a new job powder coating I've only worked a couple hours and I like the crew but there's one thing that screams neon red flag. The boss during the interview told me that he doesn't like attitude from workers or overly aggressive crew mates, which I understand everyone wants to feel safe at work, but then he went on to say that he PREFERS to be short staffed because he thinks there's more work that gets done with less drama or some bs like that. I'd like to give him the benefit of the doubt and say he meant he'd rather be short staffed than work with people who might be problematic but I dont think thats what I heard. As I was working with the crew everyone admitted to being short staffed but not knowing about the bosses preference. The boss also went ahead to say that…