Category: Antiwork

it seems like a lot of jobs in my area are only hiring for 10hr work days, is it like this for anyone else? i mean, at this point are we even allowed to have a life outside of working ?

Hello Just wanted to share a recent experience of mine. An in house recruitment lady phoned me to get me to go and interview for a role, I wasn’t that interested in it but the money was very good, it was in sales, so I decided to go anyway, I took a day off work to go since it was about an hour away and went along in a nice suit. When I got there I had to wait for the manager for about half an hour. He eventually came in and offered me a glass of water so I said “yes thank you” and he went off to the other room to get us both one. When he came back he sat down and said “I don’t see any reason why you should get this job”, I was a bit stunned at that and just said “excuse me?” And…

Our company does the fairly normal 3% yearly merit increase pool. That means managers take 3% of the total salary of their teams, and have that money available for merit increases. Even though 3% is a small number, our company further reduces it by not processing increases until April and then withholding 30% of the given increase until October. This policy effectively caps the yearly increase to 1.8%. It’s just another example of our company’s extreme cheapness.

basically, a prospective employer tells you he'll contact you back but never does. I've thought about giving them a week, call or write them to ask about my application and if they waste my time or don't find my application, cut them loose. I'm open to other ideas. Why can't they just say: yes, we want you, or no, hard pass? we'd waste less time this way. Both sides. This particular case is not that easy, because that's a place where I'd like to work. Just for the experience.

I just wanted to vent about this situation because I find it to be a totally exploitative loophole of labor laws. My gf works as a Server at a restaurant in FL. During the tourism season she makes a pretty decent wage, during the “off season” her hours drop to almost nothing and she is forced to take on part-time work to make bills. On top of that part time work, it is MANDATORY that she be on-call and ready to clock in for certain shifts. What does being on-call mean? It means you cannot make plans, you cannot be outside of town, you cannot be inebriated on your own time, you have to basically sit at home and be ready to go in to work at a moments notice, including all of the anxiety of getting the call and being told to come in. Her employer gets all of…

I'm a newly hired employee whose old position has been replaced by a contractor. This new employee is a QAnon believer who spouts nonsense all day. His first day, he told me Hurricanes are man made; I had 2 house destroyed by hurricanes when I lived in Fla for a decade. 2nd week, he tells me that Pizzagate is real and Hillary Clinton is head of a pedophile ring. 3rd week, he says Trump is still President. 3 weeks and the guy has taken minimal notes on how to perform the job. My boss asks me how it is going and I told him I am going to reserve judgment on the new employee. Going on Week 4, if this mentions that the Holocaust is fake, I feel I am not going to be able to control myself and will get violent as my entire blood line was wiped out…