Category: Antiwork

Don't know if this belongs here, but my Grandmother was recently hospitalized and I went to see her on my days off. After, I was feeling depressed and feel no motivation to “mask” and go to work. I've taken two days, and my partner is now worried I'm going to lose my job if I take anymore, even with a doctor's note. To be honest, I'm not willing to sacrifice my mental health to play food gatekeeper at a grocery store for $17 and hour (US). I feel like my partner is more concerned with how my employer is dealing with my Grandmother's hospice, rather than me. I just wanted to point out how toxic work culture poisons people into thinking their mental health is a lesser concern than a companies need for staff. It's even coming out of our loved-ones' mouths, and I don't even think they realize the…

The day I feared finally arrived: I had been struggling with anxiety at the thought of going into work and did a no call no show because I couldn't even call in. My supervisor called me and the store called me. But, my heart was trying to break out of my chest so, I ignored the messages and calls and basically shut down. I vowed I would at least give a two weeks notice: but, that place overworked me and gave me so much stress. I'm fairly certain it was a panic attack.

We hear about the CEO's of publicly traded corporations sometimes taking $1 yearly salaries as a show of their company spirit – the truth is that they also harvest gargantuan executive bonuses through “carefully aimed” stock price targets, all made possible by the gaming of the system via stock buybacks. Here's the real story: even the well paid CEO's harvest those bonuses. It's those stock buybacks that have been wrecking the middle class for forty long years… TLDR: Prior to 1982, stock buybacks were illegal. Stock buybacks vaporize all available (and borrowed) corporate cash for the sole purpose of triggering short-term executive bonuses. Buybacks benefit nobody else in the long-run. In the long-run, companies that refuse to do stock buybacks fare much better (Ref #4). Stock buybacks, for the manipulative purpose of hitting stock price targets, have been the primary driver of employer wage abuse and layoffs for the past…

So I’ve been wfh since the pandemic started. The C Suite wants us in the building, but my team lead lets me do what I want. This fine Monday morning, there is a meeting that I felt like it was important to attend in person, so I came in. We have two toilets on a floor seating at least 60 men on a normal day. Maybe 10 people here today right? I go to bathroom at 9am and someone had pissed all over the toilet and left a nasty shit in the bowl. Fuck offices, fuck coworkers, fuck this bullshit country and system. Pay me to rant on Reddit about your Slumdog Millionaire toilet culture. I’m so fucking over it.

He's been working for this company for about 10 years now. Making about $10k more than minimum wage, which is better than most but not great for a man of nearly 50 with a good education and a good head on his shoulders. He started in the warehouse, now 10 years later hes managing warehouse, warehouse office, some accounting work, and doing all customer pick ups. Its a small company, but in the 10 years they have let 3 people go and never bothered to replace them, putting the work on my husband again and again. They bumped him up 10k from making minimum wage about 3 years ago :/. Just last year he made a whole case for a large raise considering his extremely expanded duties and responsibilities, and the fact that he was doing more than one role. They shot him down. He is literally the ONLY EMPLOYEE…

Has the American workforce conditioned us to feel guilty when we use our sick time or vacation time? I won’t lie, sometimes I feel guilty when I call out from work, but then I snap out of it because I know it’s not how I truly feel. Anyone else experience this?

8 hours of work, 8 hours of rest, 8 hours of sleep is normal. Nice and symmetrical. Feels like it gives me time to get done what I need to do during the day. I can even deal with 10s, where I don't have much time at home other than to make dinner and get to sleep 12s are unnatural. The shift drags on no matter how busy I am. If you have a pretty reasonable (read very generous) commute of half an hour, it leaves you 11 hours left to cook, keep up on household chores, spend time with family and significant others, and otherwise have a personal life, all while also getting enough sleep that you don't go to work feeling groggy Fuck 12s

so about 3 and a half years ago I was working for an oilfield company operating vac truck. it was the fall, and I knew due to the size of company and weather in the area, the already slowing work would be coming to a grinding halt. I discussed this with my boss and told him that I was gonna start looking at other jobs opportunities, because I knew the winter months would be too slow to keep me going. he offered to send me for training to get a boiler ticket saying “if you run boiler you'll have so many hours you will be begging for a day off” I agreed because I knew it would mean a wage increase and advancing of my own personal skills. the day before the course, (about 16 hours before it was to start) he called me and said he wasnt going to…

I work in sales and I started to realize I was severely underpaid for what I did. I mean base pay was 30k a year and we had a 2-3 month long selling cycle. I got no help from the company when it came to getting warm leads and they didn't even attempt to train me on the products. I decided to look for a remote job, found one that pays 63k base a year, great benefits, and everything I was looking for in a company. I go talk to HR and let them know that I found a new job and that I am going to be leaving in two weeks. My manager says lets just have you stay till the end of the week and when I show up on Wednesday we decide that it's best for me to stay home. Before I quit I closed a deal…