Category: Antiwork

My last post regarding this director ​ So, for some context, I live in Illinois and I work at a daycare. Last Friday, a baby had covid and infected all the infant room teachers and most of the youngest children. We were already short-staffed before the exposure, and now with so many teachers out, we are even more understaffed. I'm sure many people already know that according to Illinois state guidelines, if an employee works a 7.5-hour shift, they must have a break no later than 5 hours into their shift. Since I open the daycare at 6:30, that would mean the latest I can take a break is 11:30, if my math is correct. Well by 10am, I knew I wasn't gonna get a break cuz my director had me join a zoom meeting for training that lasted 10-12. By the time the meeting ended, I was just about…

I work in a small wood shop with only 4 employees. The shop is a mess, my boss is always stressing everyone out, and the pay sucks. I got a job offer with much better working conditions and significantly better pay. I accepted the offer and now I have to put my notice in tomorrow. My boss can be a little volatile, and when he calms down, passive aggressive. He’s not going to take it well and my coworkers are probably going to take on more stress. Any suggestions on what to say?

What a load… I just got offered a job making a ton of money, all I need to do is pass a background check. I went through with it, feeling good, entering my information. The next day, I get an email from the place doing the background check. They couldn't find information on the place I made up that I don't actually work at, obviously, and requested some more information to complete the check. I sent back an email saying I provided the phone number and name of my “employer,” a friend of mine who is willing to pretend to be my boss, and saying that I'm not comfortable sharing my payment information. I haven't heard back yet, but I'm stressing the fuck out and I don't normally feel stressed. I've been depressed all day thinking I just fucked myself by lying. The worst part is that it isn't really…

For background I am 20 years old, graduated HS in 2020 with an AP diploma and am not attending college because I don't think it's worth the cost. Maybe I'm wrong, I'm still not sure yet. I was recently laid off working as a design engineer due to a “low workload”, and my parents, whom I live with, asked me what I look for in a job. Apparently “appreciation” and “not being exploited” was the wrong answer. They kept going on and on about how I work for a company and that I need to do whatever they tell me to keep the business afloat, and that I should be lucky to have a job. It's funny because my father is a captain at JetBlue making around 200k a year and my mother works for American Airlines making around 65k a year, both in their late 50's, obviously on the…

I started a job about six weeks ago. Upon agreeing to take the job I was told that the manager was going to be with me for my first week during every shift to help train me. Every single day during the first week that I showed up I asked coworkers where she was and she was not there. And they told me that they would be helping me learn how to do everything. So I was confused. So basically they were asking the other employees to train me and show me shut but they weren’t getting paid to do so…. Soooo they didn’t give a F and I didn’t learn shit. So every time I did something wrong(bc I had to figure everything out myself) I was reprimanded. I was pissed about all this but got Over it since the pay is amazing and I make my own schedule.…