Category: Antiwork

Went to Chipotle for an early lunch with my kids today and was greeted by a sign: “Due to staffing shortages we will be opening at Noon”. Okay great, more “shortages”, guess we’ll come back another time. Fast forward to tonight, wife and I decided to get dinner there instead. Placed an order online at 5:10pm, showed up at 5:40pm. The doors were locked, yet peering through the glass showed a full crew of staff working furiously inside. One of them saw me standing there awkwardly holding two kids, came up front and opened the door. Employee: “Our system was down and just started working.” (Employee starts taping up “IF WE DON’T HAVE YOUR ORDER CALL xxx-xxx-xxxx FOR A REFUND” signs) Me: “Okay, I ordered online, do you have an order for ?” Two people start looking through the pile of printed orders and can’t find my name. “Sorry but…

so yesterday i felt ill in the morning and i decided to go to work anyway. not knowing i had a 103.4 fever. i was working all day yesterday and my shift ended at 4, they told me i could go home at 3:30 because they saw how pale i was, and i said “it’s okay, i can do this.”. i worked as hard as i could accidentally dropping a fryer basket because i was so weak i couldn’t hold it up with one hand as i can usually do on a day im not sick. obviously. i dropped it back into the fryer and hot oil burned me all over, i looked up and everything started spinning and i fainted. it was about 3:45. i was taken to the ER and they told me i had a fever, which i didn’t know i had, and strep throat. they asked…

Hello everyone, here's a situation: Jessie the employee who works at Johnny's Pizzeria got back from a paid FMLA and after two weeks working, gave a two weeks notice letter. Meaning, Jessie's last day would then complete the 30 calendar day return to work period. As the U.S. Department of Labor states: An employee who returns to work for at least 30 calendar days is considered to have “returned” to work for the purposes of the FMLA. My question is, can Johnny's Pizzeria recover all of the health benefit premiums and/or salary paid during Jessie's period of FMLA leave?

Getting new federal law to protect workers rights should be the goal. It's nice to see unions getting support but unions are not as always as innocent as they appear on the surface.

I’m upset and need to rant, might delete later. I work at a smoothie place. We’re purposely understaffed, so naturally when people call out, it’s near impossible to find a cover. Despite being a full-time student, I literally make myself available as often as possible and I’m scheduled more than most of my coworkers minus the managers. I don’t need the hours, but my manager asked if I could work more and I said sure. I am the go-to person for covers. I took a 2 month leave of absence because I was bedridden in the hospital. When I came back, I covered 6 shifts in 2 weeks. I worked 13 days in a row. One girl who asked me, told me she didn’t want to ask me because I had just came out of the hospital fighting for my life for 2 months, but our manager told her to…

Hello, I figured this would be the best place to get honest, real feedback. I just got a major promotion at my company. Something that I’ve been working toward for over 15 years. It’s an amazing opportunity and the company is fantastic. Needless to say, I want to make the most of this. A little about myself; I’m 40 which is young for this type of role, and I don’t have the most experience. I’m a likable guy that can work with anyone and I have an absolute passion for problem solving. I was managing “my team” a year before I got the actual promotion and I have a great relationship with them. I hate meetings and mass emails. I prefer to talk to people one on one so I can have a direct connection with them. Everyone on my team has my cell number and I encourage them to…