Category: Antiwork

I feel stuck, like everything I’ve worked for amounts to a zero sum game. I’m 41, been trucking OTR for almost 5 years and it’s just not worth the sacrifices vs the pay. I’m rarely home, I’m stressed to the brink usually, it’s a dangerous job, you have people praising you for the job yet no one wants to do it. Some in the industry would like to put our foot down and demand better wages, better benefits but then it’s always, “but if the food and fuel and medicine stop moving, people will die” well then logically shouldn’t we be paid more if we’re so damn important? When I was a in high school, people asked why the CEO and the c level managers and execs were paid so much. “Well, they have high stress jobs, barely see their families, and they’re very important to the running of society”…

My jobs module is exactly 8 minutes. What's worse. All the psw nursing, rn, admin mods used terminology without any explanations prior to mentioning them. Then there were tests for these people that I HAD to get over 80% in. By contrast. The 8 – 1 minute to read pdfs for the cooking job have zero tests. This is why they can't get people to work in these places. Anyone with even a little test anxiety, or English as a second language, or a distain for anything medical would've had to quit before their first real work day.

Customer: Hey I just wanted to return some tile. I bought it awhile back. Me: Okay let me see if I can find it. Finds it So it looks like this was bought back in 2019. We have a 90 day return policy… Customer: Well it looks like you still sell it. Me: It’s actually discontinued and the other tile you brought in, while we do still sell it is outside the return period as well. Customer: At the other store they take back my returns all the time. I’m a builder with over 20 years experience. Me: Well that’s great and all but we actually use a third party service that verifies returns automatically and it can’t be overwritten by anyone… not even a store manager. Allow me to even show you and try to put it through. Scans everything Customer: Lemme stop you there I’m going to just…

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I’ve been a lurker here for maybe half a year and I love reading through this sub to remind me to not go back to the civilian world and finish out doing 20 years, since the civilian sector seems shit in today economy. My overall question though is, why not join the military??? Obviously you can’t join after a certain age and there are medical qualifications, but other than that you’re good. Don’t say “oh because I might go to combat and die”, then go into a military occupational specialty (mos) that is non combat related. Also your medical/ dental is free (not the greatest treatment for those yearly sicknesses) but you’ll be taken care of. You get tuition assistance(TA) which pays for your college while you’re in (got my associates, working on my bachelors), plus your spouse gets something similar to TA called MyCCA (or MyCAA) which pays for…

Having started work before anyone had a mobile phone, and only important people had a pager, employees hourly and salary would use a landline to communicate. Calls would be for things like calling in sick, coordinating a shift trade, or asking to come in earlier than otherwise planned. Seemingly it worked out. If someone didn't call in or show, you wrote it down. Exceed the written threshold, they were handed or mailed a letter terminating employment. It was frequent in entry level jobs when switching, or when something bad enough happened that it was somewhat obvious they were not going to come back. “No-Call, No-Show” was a common refrain in line manager vernacular. Employee's became skilled and ensuring they “sounded sick” when they called. Today, some employees that assume that because they have the personal cell phone of a co-worker or supervisor, that a text message counts as calling in…