Category: Antiwork

The head of my department is requesting that my coworkers and I drive an hour to a convention center this coming Sunday morning to help set up my companies booth. We have to be there by 8:30 am… I went last year to help set up and ended up not really needing to do much at all. I left early and apparently that didn’t sit well with my boss. I didn’t care. I’ve not shown up a couple times to “help set stuff up” to a few other things and have been told that I’m “not being a team player” by my manager. Sorry I don’t brown nose the boss, but to me, this off the clock stuff is strictly volunteer work and I’m not willing to volunteer my free time for a job I don’t even like. Would like to note that I don’t even get to attend the…

Last Saturday my husband had an aneurysm and was admitted to the hospital (he’s doing good), and the following Monday I went into work to explain that I needed time off (at least 3 days) and he goes on to tell me that my department was really hurting for production and I should focus on coming back to work asap. I’m sitting there gritting my teeth because production was the last thing on my mind at that point but whatever. I went back to work on the yesterday and my supervisor told us we can work less hours if we want to “take a break” lol. This place makes me feel like I’m losing my damn mind.

Just wanted to share some good information about my work since we get so little in this sub! My manager pulled me aside to let me know that he appreciates everything I do, and I’ll be receiving a pay raise to $18/h starting Thursday. I started 6 months ago on $15/h. Didn’t ask for any raises or promotions; it was an unprovoked token. This manager (GM) is also constantly buying drinks, food, snacks, and candy to leave in the back for employees to grab for free. Holidays are all volunteer based, they listen to scheduling requests, and employee complaints are taken seriously. GM actually had a sit down with the managers telling them that they need to get up and help employees more often due to some complaints. IMO, managers have since been great at coming to help during rushes instead of just watching (helped before too, just not as…

Hey Antiwork, I've posted here before that Activision Blizzard King was seeking to force workers to return to office. Workers were given different timelines of return to office plans also known as RTO. Now, sadly the accommodations process has been sending out copy and paste responses at a delayed rate to workers requesting what into they need to meet the accommodation request, to work from home still. I should also stress that “togetherness” has been the touted trait ABK (Activision-Blizzard-King) uses in their wording for why RTO is happening. While on our end all of our metrics have been up. I have seen over 1/5th of my team in Minnesota either quit or be “fired” unlawfully (pending nlrb rulings). This also comes as ABK is rapidly expanding their Austin Texas Office and hiring tons of independent contractors to replace the current full time testers. Sadly the level of work doesn't…

Did anyone hear the npr marketplace segment on GOP pushing for work requirements for welfare? Apparently, there are huge multi-million dollar companies that get government money to enforce the work requirements. They consider the people ‘their product’. The whole story made my blood boil. These CEOs get paid millions for taking advantage of people while simultaneously fleecing the government. How is what they are doing not bondage?

I am a manager at a company with huge responsibilities and recently a policy was shared with me that would require all managers to leave company vehicles at work, and be on call while responding with personal vehicles. As a manager who is on call 24/7 and having had taken other concessions in the past regarding remuneration of my job, this was the last straw for me. I wrote up a respectful letter to upper management requesting more communication on the matter as I believe it is very important that policy changes should be a collaborative process. Upper management decided that a top down approach would be implemented and that what I said didn't matter as the policy was to take effect immediately. I filed for resignation. I was told that upper management shouldn't have to kiss our ass to make us happy. Well, we shouldn't have to kiss theirs…