Category: Antiwork

I work for a big construction company in the Midwest. My previous company got absorbed. I’ve been forced to pull there trailers with my truck, even got in an accident on company time in my truck pulling a trailer for them. That went on my insurance, that didn’t feel right. Some days I’m going to 4 or 5 different places to do my job. I never signed up to drive my vehicle like this. Thankfully they offer gas and mileage compensation. I was just informed yesterday that apparently I’m not supposed to be getting both. I was told by the big boss to go ahead and get both from the start. I’m just worried he’s gonna say he never told me to do that and the company will come after me for money

I can’t believe jobs expect us to give them our labor, but most of them don’t have the decency to let us know directly they “aren’t” hiring us, they literally just ghost us. It’s frustrating, and I’m supposed to respect them?

I work in tech. Like many tech companies recently, they opened up to remote workers. I am a 5-hour flight from the main office. There's a kick-off event happening in 11 days. I asked several weeks ago whether we would be required to attend in person. My experience is that usually a company gathers its employees in person at least once a year. I was told that the company wouldn't be bringing in the remote workers for this event. Yesterday, my manager sent a message saying the company had decided to pay for our flights, hotel, and food, up to a budgeted amount. 11 days notice seems very little to me. From my perspective, it's disrespectful to expect employees to suddenly scramble to arrange child care, pet care, or to cancel plans, after the company failed to organize properly in advance. I know my perspective is biased because this last…