Category: Antiwork

Inflation is 7% so make sure you don’t let them steal the same amount of work for less pay.

It was clear that they'd overhired, there wasn't enough work for all the workers so we all sort of saw it coming. I'd had some attendance issues related to depression so I knew that if they did a round of layoffs I was vulnerable to due that. By today I'd worked for about 5 1/2 months in the company, from October to February. They told me they were laying me off and I told them I'd seen it coming and no hard feelings. They then deliberately postdated the “last day” to march 1 so I'd have another month of bennies and gave me 2 weeks PTO to help me look for a new job — this also, “coincidentally,” stretched my time worked so that I just barely qualified for unemployment in my state (which has a cutoff for jobs worked less than 6 months) and made sure the paperwork reflected…

So I have never worked at a workplace where politics are brought up. To be completely transparent, I'm a republican, I'm not a die-hard Trumper or care about the religious aspects that stupidly gets grouped with Republicans, I am just conservative fiscally, less taxes, more spending on military etc, I don't care or have an opinion on abortion, I definitely think Gay marriage is fine, etc, i'm on the spectrum of people who just care about the only thing that actually matters, peace and money. Anyways, my boss is a hardcore Democrat and tells me at my first meeting that white people are basically racist assholes, and calls every white person he works with a racist Trumper. To be completely honest, I don't even care about this stuff or the fact that he hates one party or another. He is actively racist himself towards people who are indian, chinese, or…