Category: Antiwork

This might be long but point me to the right subreddit if I’m in the wrong one. A year ago, I started working at a hospital in the activities department for patients with dementia (playing games, music, shopping/movie trips). Literally the best job I could ask for. I love it still a year later but this is what’s getting in the way of me being truly happy at this job. Administration requires our department to give the secretaries a break three times a day. This is annoying as hell itself and I guess wasn’t a requirement in the past until a new administrator was hired. These are supposed to be two 15 minute breaks and one half hour break. They never follow these rules and always take over an hour and it interferes with our real jobs. We complained about it to our boss but nothing happens, she usually doesn’t…

Had a conversation with my boss yesterday about how a process change requiring us to verify email addresses (which you can't really by just googling it..) was stupid. Today I got fired because that inanimate text process change had its feelings hurt. Filing for unemployment!

I work at a security guard company and they have a no cell phone policy. I ignore it since I'm mostly at a dead site and rarely see my boss every other week. I see other guards can bring laptops, gaming devices, and cell phones to entertain themselves and managment does not seem to care about it. What are some jobs besides security that will allow you do be on your phones or other electronics when the work day is slow?

I've recently been promoted to an executive position at my company. I'm currently working on fair pay and capacity issues. A lot of stuff here is bashing employers, but it should really be bashing leaders at these employers. If you're leaders aren't listening, keep that in mind and REPLACE them (if you can). I've made suggestions and improvement discussions based upon reducing capacity and increasing compensation and I'm looked at like a wizard. The fight isn't just in the proletariat, but with those people that can effect organizational change.

We’re both longtime contract employees without job security. She has been trying to get our job duties officially changed and to point out problems with the ways I’ve been working. We work between two departments and she tried to make changes several months ago and one dept said no. Now she’s got the other dept scheduling a meeting with us to discuss her suggested changes. We could each just keep doing our work without issue as our jobs don’t intersect. In fact she could just make changes herself in her own work (we have freedom as long as the work gets done and follows certain requirements), but she insists on bringing me into it. She has talked crap on me in the past (per a trusted coworker) and I feel she’s trying to show me up now and to take over some of my hours (hours are not guaranteed by…

I work in retail part-time as a college student. There are things we do such as events (take product from our store and take it to someplace else such as the country club or the ballet or schools to sell) and flips (where we put our new product). I’ve been working there for 1 1/2 years and I haven’t gotten the opportunity to do either, while new hires have been. My manager is also passive aggressive towards me and makes exceptions for other employees (such as her own cousin). She never gives me the opportunity to do things that I’m perfectly capable of doing. I was only staying mainly bc it would look good on my resume that I stayed with a job for quite a while and because a couple of my friends worked there (who don’t work there anymore). I have to take 7 classes next semester as…

When real accidents/problems come up in life to target us in our health, wages, food, housing, dwindling free time, etc, I’ve come to understand there’s never a fight. A brief outcry maybe when something terrible happens like a car accident or injury such as “my prayers are with you.” But beyond that, I genuinely feel alone vs anything I have to accomplish or overcome. I’m smart enough to handle it, but what’s the point in surviving to survive?