Category: Antiwork

Felt like this belonged here. The culture of corporate treatment of parental leave in the US is disgusting. Leading up to the scheduled FMLA they constantly assured her of job security. They had her on a really nice insurance plan and 6 weeks paid leave. It just seems so fucked they would pull the rug out from under her days before they knew she would go into labor. They celebrated our child to be as a “company baby” and even threw her a virtual baby shower. The whole job is remote. It feels like a betrayal- she worked hard and the company CEO is a billionaire. They blame the lay off on company expense and financial cuts but it seems designed around her pregnancy due to her excellence at work. I guess we’re just exasperated and tired. I’m a struggling small business owner too and we both just find that…

I work part-time at a franchise-owned Dunkin' Donuts in my city. (For those unfamiliar, it's basically a fast-food coffee/pastry shop) and the managers here are overworked to the MAX. I'm on my third week there and since then about 6 people quit, which basically cut our staff in half because we were already short-staffed. Luckily since I have a second job (and they don't want the trouble of putting me on full-time hours, nor do I) they're not trying to make me work overtime. But the managers are. One of my managers told me she's worked doubles and not had a day off since the 9th of this month. They wouldn't admit it (I think most of them are conservatives) but I bet they'd be retaining workers if they fucking paid us more than $10 an hour and they don't have to make their managers suffer to pick up the…

I (21f) have a phone interview for a customer service representative at a pet supply company on Friday and in the email i got from the person that i'll be interviewing with, he said he encouraged me to ask lots of questions. I have a terrible habit of allowing myself to get steamrolled in interviews because i have difficulties standing up for myself and taking up space in situations like that. I have only ever worked retail before and this is my first opportunity to move into a real career that i could grow in and i want to come off as professional and capable of such a position. i also don't want to be taken advantage of and end up in an unfair position without realizing it. ​ EDIT: all i know about the job so far is that it's full time and $15/hr

So I work a zero hour contract which I finish my masters. I’ve worked supply for my workplace for 8 years and originally worked as an apprentice. I work in the UK so any specifics will be in relation to that. Basically as zero hours I get no benefits HR avoid me like the plague and my contract literally says i have no employee rights. One day I looked back over my contract and saw that I am rightly on a qualified contract, but as minimum wage has recently increased i was currently only on minimum wage in my age bracket (over 23s). I spoke to my manager to have them speak to HR to see the difference in pay rate. Unqualified was something like 50p an hour lower – which would be below minimum wage. So other supply workers with no experience in the field who are employed by…

Background: Happily, I recently got offered a full time remote position where my supervisor explicitly said in the interview that she understands work isn't everything, we have lives to live and family, and that work comes second to that, that she's not a micromanager and will just let me work independently without constant check ins, or any expectations of set hours each day. I of course immediately put in my 2 weeks at my current job which has a very heavy culture of micromanaging. We're on a 3-2 in office/WFH schedule. (I asked to have more balance in my work week since I have a short commute and would have preferred to start in the office each day and have some WFH every day rather than the 3-2 split, but they said no that's not the policy). On days you're in office, you're expected to be in a full 8.5…

I have boundaries and you arent respecting them, trying to reason with capitalists is like being in a narcissistic relationship