Category: Antiwork

Last year I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer and still currently undergoing radiation treatment. Additionally just this year, I found out that I have Sjorgen's syndrome which explains my fatigue. After that I found out I have multiple spine diseases like foraminal stenosis and bulging discs in all three sections. Oh and did I mention I drive 90 minutes to work each day for an 8 hour desk job? I rely on this job to pay for overpriced treatment from the medical system, along with a second job. I think I paid over $600 for an MRI and $471 for my first appointment with my urologist. I am almost done with this debt for a $491 electric needle test by my neurologist that I didn't ask for and didn't know was going to cost so much, which yielded no little results.

Long story short, I was recruited by another company to come work for them. Did the interview, got the offer, did the drug screen and background check and both came back good and was given a start date. Less than 24 hours before I was supposed to start they sent an email saying the offer has been pulled because I worked for this other company which apparently is also them 5 years ago for 2 days before they changed my schedule to something I didn't agree to and couldn't make work. Now I'd assume all that info would've came up in their systems before an offer was even made. Same phone and address as I had back then so wasn't on my end. When I did the application for them after the recruitment there was absolutely no mention they were even affiliated with the other company. They asked the typical…

For every three or four people on r/antiwork who complains about their boss and being broke, there exists one person who is a boss and is not broke.

This happened like two weeks ago. So, I work at a Mexican food place that operates like a Subway. (Like a line of different foods you pick what you want from in a bowl). So, apparently I’ve been giving people too much meat. But, in my defense, when we all got in trouble last time for doing too much meat and had to use the scale to weigh it, I was on vacation for most of the time. So, I was making someone‘s food, and apparently my manager was watching me. She said it was entirely too much meat and just started berating me about it (there was a customer standing there). And my coworkers could hear it too. Now, every time I make something she’s watching me. Idk, maybe I’m just being really sensitive but I don’t like her now lol.

At my retail job they provide paint supplies for employees to obviously paint. There are no listed rules, but it's generally been done for an art contest. The past few days I've just been painting because I'm here way earlier than when I actually start. Yesterday I painted a piece that was a black background, red eyes in the distance, and very blocky/cartoons swords in the foreground, some of which had blood on them. I left that painting under one of my other paintings when I left for the day, planning on doing more today. When I arrived, my painting was gone. I spoke to a manager and she dodged my questions with one word answers then left. Later in the day when I asked her where it was, she said it was in the manager's office and once again left. Can I get punished over this? The art is…

My sister and I work for the same large company and their parental leave policy is abysmal – you’re allowed 6 weeks, but whatever you don’t have in annual and sick leave is leave without pay. She’s two weeks in and out of leave. Our entire agency gets emailed when someone out on FMLA exhausts their leave so people can donate some of their own. Between me and the coworkers I know have donated, she’s got another 150 paid hours. But it’s so dystopian that that’s what it takes.