Category: Antiwork

Monkeys run on peanuts, lions run on monkeys

I'm not familiar with this subreddit but my boyfriend suggested I share my story partly because I can appreciate the humor of the situation and partly because he thinks it might help cheer me up. I've been a cocktail waitress for six years now and I started working at this particular bar almost a year ago when they had just reopened after being closed for a year and a half due to COVID. I was a part of their first wave of hires and because I had a good amount of craft cocktailing experience I was quickly made a bartender despite my lack of actual bartending experience. The craft cocktail industry in the Midwest is very much a “boys club” and it's still very hard to cross the ranks from cocktail server to bartender. I've dealt with all sort of harassment from guests groping me to coworkers telling me to…

To preface this; I am a trans woman and I have been socially and medically transitioning now for about 8 months. Around July 2021 I came out at work and changed my name – up until then I was a woman named Skye in my personal life, and a Man in my professional life. Living two lives became too hard so I didn't waste much time between telling my boss what was going on, and making it public across the company with the help of HR (or at least what passed for HR at this company). I noticed my boss over the next few months began to start undermining me and doing things behind my back. It made it difficult to manage my department when my employees were being told to do things without me even knowing about it. I was frustrated for them as well, because I tried my…

I refuse to ever to put a space between “thank” and “you” ever again. Fuck you man