Category: Antiwork

I work for Walmart and say we need to unionize! Fuck this company, and fuck the corporate shills! Any Walmart employees in this sub, join me! I'm going to start bringing it up at work tomorrow. Unionize!

I’m in a university that’s in the middle of nowhere and it’s known to be easier than most, but the workload is still so insane that I’m getting very close to suicidal. Teachers who made it don’t care about the workload they’re putting out is too much for just even one lecture. They work at their pace and expect you to keep up. But don’t account for mental illnesses or just basic fatigue. Most students just shut up and like any capitalist, fall into the hustler mindset and grind away saying this is how it is. Of course people like me who can’t survive in a place like that seeking answers here is dangerous too but people like to say what they want and fee like they contribute to something. But when it gets to something like 9 pages of math per hour for someone with ADHD or worse, we…

I started a job in a new city and left within the first two weeks. First red flag was the schedule, which in the job description was stated at four 10 hour work days a week (Monday-Thursday) with possibility of Friday on-call days (overtime is paid at 1.5x). First Thursday rolls around and my manager asks me if I want to work on Friday, I say no and he says you should expect to work every Friday for the next two months at least. On what was to be my last day, we are wrapping up a Wednesday when the owner, as he walks out, tells the manager that we have to stay until everything is done (about 2 hours more work) and we have to wait around for a new shipment to arrive before we can even get started (being vague on purpose to not implicate things…). Turns out…

According to my “congrats on 1-year with the company” email, I have performed 91,113 COVID tests so far. The state pays for all supplies, personnel, and overhead… PLUS $50 for each test we perform. That means that I have made my company $4.55Million in the last year. …for Christmas, I received a gift basket of crackers and olives, which cost $36… …and today I found out that my company doesn't provide any maternity/paternity benefits outside of what is required by state law.

Genuinely curious as to where my own awful interview experience stacks up — I work in media, and after an HR phone screening, multiple edit tests, and SIX in-person interviews (with multiple people each time) where I had to leave my own office for over two hours to get there and back, the company called and asked me to come into their office a SEVENTH time, promising it would be the last. I think at that point, even they knew how ridiculous it was getting. And my boss at the job I was trying to leave thought there was something seriously wrong with my health, given the seven “doctor's appointments” I had to leave the office for (pre-pandemic) in the span of two months. The real kicker is that they *did* end up offering me the job in the end … for $20K less than asking. Leveraged it for a…

Title. (tw mentions of suicidality) My experience: I've been dealing with chronic suicidal thoughts ever since I was a child, and I'm currently relapsing pretty fucking hard. Two weeks ago though, I got a diagnosis of COVID and I was in literally a world of pain. I couldn't breath, I had a fever, my head was pounding, I vomited blood I think. It was fucking wild and honestly like I came this close to get hospitalized. But I remember thinking: that's nice I don't have to go to work. And for once in my life, I was free of suicidal thoughts. I didn't have any. I have some feelings of death ideation like oh yeah I could die from this, this is nice, but…. I wasn't suicidal. I came back to work today, and I was struck, and I mean hit by a truck, with suicidal thoughts. For three hours…

I (29m) was called in HR, they said they wanted to ask me some questions. They told me they're having trouble both hiring people under 30, and if they do hire them, they leave before 1 year. This was one of my favorite meetings I've ever had. Constantly just reiterating that the younger generations have higher costs and lower wages than when the “leadership team” was our age. I don't understand what there isn't to understand on their part. People don't work at your company because they find a better opportunity. At the end of this meeting I basically laid it out that they need to either reduce hours while keeping the same annual earnings, or just pay more. I floated the 4 day work week and a 5 day 6 hour work week. Ultimately, I think they'll just ignore everything anyone says, and continue to say they don't understand…