Category: Antiwork

I was under the impression that “2 weeks of paid vacation time” a year meant that I’m legally allowed to be able to take the vacation time without having to trade shifts for every single day of the vacation. My current workplace is making it so that basically no one can use their vacation days. I can only trade days with a very small number other people of my same role (we’re short staffed of course ), so in order to take a week long break for example, I have to convince like 2 or maybe 3 other people to sacrifice their days off to work my five shifts, then when I come back I get to work 6 or 7 day weeks to make up for the days I got my coworkers to cover for me. Nobody’s happy about this, can someone tell me if this is even legal?!…

I feel like when layoffs start happening and other companies see this they can also make cuts too and not be the “bad guy” in these situations. I also feel like with the layoffs companies can continue to not give raises and/or meet employee demands. It seems like even competing companies “stick together” and gain leverage over workers and start to take back what we may have gained through covid workplace changes. So back to my initial question… how long till we losr any and all leverage we may have and are told to be lucky we have a job in these times?

I don’t know if I should post here, or r/aspergers. My bosses boss (she leads all of us) asked me today to make sure that each desk, over 5 floors has a chair (I am fine with that) then asked to make sure 4 chairs are around 3 tables, in open plan meeting areas on each floor. I do that, but the problem is I can’t time/figure out or stop people in the building from grabbing a chair, from wherever they want, or their own, taking it in into a meeting room, using it, and not bringing/putting it back, to where they took it in the first place. So I finish putting the four chairs in each section, go to the next floor, do the same thing there, go to the previous floor, and all the chairs have been removed or placed elsewhere, making me feel anxious, thinking that if…

I think what r/antiwork represents more than anything else, is the failure of the capitalist incentive structures that were put in place to keep the working class complacent. Since the 1970s, the advent of computers and better technology gave employers an excuse to decouple the rise in wages with the rise in productivity. Thus the former have stagnated and we find ever more insidious ways of keeping the workers in their place. The article posted regarding how debt keeps workers in the US from striking is an example of this, as well as the unanimous vote of the government to shut down the rail strike and forbid paid sick leave for those workers. What I think is good about this is the insane desperation capitalists seem to have now. All economic news outlets have their hot take of the week about how the working class is to blame for X,…

This isn't anything new to anyone. Layoffs just keep coming it seems. However, this was my first time ever getting laid off. I was so worried it was going to happen, but my boss reassured me it wouldn't and, even if my position got terminated (which it did), I'd be able to go to our collections department. Well, he found out myself and 2 others on my position were getting laid off minutes before I went into a meeting with his boss to be told about this. And no, we couldn't transfer to another department. Thankfully, though, they gave us our final paycheck and we're getting severance pay. Now I've been in call centers for 8 years so all I know is customer service. But I'm so tired of being on phones. I want to expand my skill set, but I have no idea what I want to do next…

The bar where I worked closed down last Sunday (1/15) for a remodel that would take 5 days. The goal was to be reopened by that weekend. We were only given 3 days notice, as we had planned for this many many times but it kept being postponed. So they didn't want to tell us ahead of time just in case it wasn't happening again. Sure, fine. Sucks to miss 5 days of work (about 3 shifts), but we all figured it was a necessary evil. Come Friday (1/20), we hadn't received any updates and no schedule had been released. So I reached out via group text to see what was going on. I was told by management that the remodel would extend through the weekend. Alright cool, thanks for letting us know. Now today (1/23), we get a text saying we will not be open at all this week…

Pretty full day, a variety of fun but the cherry is my mothers health has taken a turn for the worst. Long story short she has ALS and a late stage symptom hit today and my father and Iare gearing up for the shit show. Die to this i wanna get FMLA to cover my ass for the unexpected things comming. I get three days bereavement but wannaplay it safe. Ive been told to never approach work first for FMLA as theyll typically try to fuck you. How do i get this jump started? I apologize if this is the right sub for this, ill remove it and post somewhere else if needed. Ill do my best to respond to questions but ill probably be a lil slow at it.