Category: Antiwork

Rant: So, my manager and supervisor have been training me for about 3 and a half months now and I’m constantly in a state of second guessing myself because what they teach me they don’t adhere to themselves. I work in the contact lens department, here’s a list of rules they break: The patient needs an up to date sight test in order to qualify for contact lenses…uh, whatever let’s get them in now and do half of the appointment, but hey! You’re really gonna need that sight test. Absolutely grinds my gears because I stand there making the effort of explaining to a patient why they can’t have this appointment until the sight test and then my supervisor and manager shut me down and make me look like an idiot. Can’t issue lenses until they have an up to date contact lens check up…you know what, whatever, just make…

So, I have a question about whether or not I qualify for overtime. I work in Southern New Jersey at a Seaside Boardwalk Resort in the position of Inventory and Receiving. I am a seasonal employee, so I work around 8 months out of the year. I've held this job for several years now. I don't want to give away too much info in case this is seen by someone I work with, hence the throwaway account. I highly doubt this would happen, but better safe then sorry. When I first applied there, I was told my position “didn't qualify for overtime due to an exception” and originally I took this at face value. But after being expected to put in 60 to 70 hour work weeks, and finding out that we are some of the only employees who don't get overtime pay. I'm beginning to have serious doubts. Now,…

Posting from a throwaway account, for obvious discretionary reasons. I just really needed to get this off my chest, get some advice or thoughts, and commiserate. I know this is gonna be long, but trust me, you'll want to join me in hating this guy, lol. Setting: I'm a marketing specialist at a medium sized business. We're not some huge household name, but we're also not some tiny “mom and pop” business either. It's been around over a decade and generates a lot of money for the CEO, who was already rich from other business ventures of his. But this one is his baby, so he's highly involved in it. We're a b2b service. The CEO: He is exactly what this sub and those like us hate. He's filthy rich and thinks he knows everything and can run everything himself. He's literally a poster child for what this sub stands…

I like my company and thrive in my WFH environment (plus get to be with my son), but now my company is trying to mandate monitoring us by using our webcams to see and listen to everything we do. The thing is, I have severe anxiety that can be triggered easily if I feel watched (along with other triggers obviously). Now that I know I’ll be watched, I’ll be in a constant state of stress and I know my productivity will suffer. Is there anything I can do?

Long time lurker, first time poster. How do I tell my boss as diplomatically as possible* that I refuse to start using a time tracking app that also tracks location, and this is a nonnegotiable boundary for me? (*It’s a small town and a niche industry. I can’t burn this bridge or rage quit right now.) We’re doing office type work here; I’ve never had to track hours down to the minute except at places like big box retailers in my teens and early 20s. Boss’s shady CPA who runs payroll put them onto this app essentially just to make payroll easier for themselves without regard for what the employees want or feel comfortable with. Also: My boss is anti-work from home for no discernible reason other than they perceive that they won’t have 100% control when we WFH. Once again, the shady CPA planted a seed of doubt on…

He's worked there for 7 or 8 years, his hearing isn't great, prior management had him stop taking the hearing tests. New management shows up, has no problem with him skipping two hearing tests until he damages something driving a forklift. The accident didn't hurt anyone and wasn't related to hearing at all, but now the new manager is worried about all the missing hearing tests, so threatens writeups if he doesn't go get his hearing tested. Insurance pays for the doctor visit to get referred to a hearing test, but doesn't pay for the hearing test. He brings the bill and asks them to pay but is told they won't. I've been googling OSHA and California law, but I can't tell if they're in the right because they require all new employees to take a hearing test, or if they're in the wrong because he's the only one that…

I'm hoping I can get some help here. Please don't just tell me to quit my job. I work at a gym and noticed that on my pay stubs, there is no Federal Tax Income withheld. It's at 0 where the other categories have an amount taken out. I've already done my taxes, can't do much there. I contacted management and they forwarded me to Payroll. So after a bit of back-and-forth email with the person in charge of Payroll. She called me in the middle of work after I had sent an email with 2 questions and asked if they could be answered in writing . ​ Basically, this is what she told me: – There was a law that businesses would not have to take out Federal Taxes if the employee's paycheck was less than $500 and *I* should have known about it – It was not up…

I was gone at work for a long time due to that I have Bacterial infection that become too complicated. Then I got COVID both were so severe, I have to be off work. I provided doctor's notes and everything.

I’ve accepted a position for a demanding role last week. They practically begged me to join the team with how quick my interviews went by and how they were back-to-back, and they quickly offered me a salary much higher than what I was expecting. I was reached for the position from an in-house staff specialist for them who came to know of my profile from an application I submitted for the company months ago. Now, I’ve started this role and I’m expected to fully immerse myself with the team and to catch up 3 months of work in ~2 weeks. Our project due date is in 90 days about. When accepting the offer it came with a clause that I had to go through an introductory period first (which is 90 days) and that the company could terminate me at any time. I can’t help but feel as if I…