Category: Antiwork

I’ve heard a lot about people saying two weeks is useless. I agree, but why even give an employer any notice or confirmation at all? Is it to get benefits or complete exiting paths of some sort? Especially bad employers, why not just ghost them?

So I had been in and out of hospitals dealing w some serious mental health issues. I was involuntary committed several times in the last year. Each tine, I did all legal paperwork etc but they were getting tired of me missing days. I had to go back to the hospital again last week. I was cleared but my life was hectic. (I live in MI, but was stuck in Indiana) I told boss I'd report to work last Weds. I didn't make it due to some other serious outside issues that I won't even get into right now.. They fired me that day and gave me my last check. I filed for unemployment already, but do I have a case for wrongful termination? Is it worth it to call NLRB/state equivalent? I liked this company a lot, but now I have no income and I refuse to resort to…

Hello, Something so ridiculous happened at the IT firm I am working at, that I can't even… I and 3 other senior devs were recruited at one IT firm in December along with one junior dev – all fine so far (all of us are working remotely). We were just doing some basic stuff, like bug fixing as the development of the new product is supposed to start in march and a month ago there was a first onsite party taking place, unfortunately, I and 3 other devs could not join ( I was getting married that day) and only junior dev went. During the onsite party, apparently, this junior dev got to know our product owner ( the person who recruited us) VERY WELL ( the idiot confessed that they slept together). And last week we received the news that this JUNIOR DEV will be our technical lead. Me…

Not sure if this topic really fits here, but I feel like this community may have some ideas to share on the topic. What made me think about this was the dude who wanted to use ChatGPT as his defense attorney. That got me thinking, from a logistic standpoint, replacing physical labor well would not only require AI, but also potentially overly expensive hardware to actually do the labor that could be well out of reach for a lot to afford. Things like billing, HR, filing, data imput, etc.; typically considered white collar jobs seem much more easily replaced by AI. It seems to me that that could be more affordable by a lot of companies than Robotics and AI to replace low-level to highly skill based labor positions. And I'm talking everything from bathroom attendants to masons with that. I feel like the additional aspect of hardware puts making…

Throw away account because my main one is too easy to trace back to me. I am the director of a home health agency. Due to short staffing that happened right before I took over, I was the only nurse that worked there for about nine months. This meant I was on call 24/7, expected to see all of the nursing patients, and needed to respond to calls within 20 minutes, etc. I am normally in a salary position, but did get paid $2/hour on-call outside of my normal Monday through Friday schedule. When I would see a patient on the weekends, I would get compensated per visit, but it ends up being less than my “hourly pay” would have been with drive time. I was working an average of 50 to 60 hours a week. I did the math and if I were paid like the regular hourly/pay per…

I am a server at a restaurant and a party came in last week, and they asked for a $60 gift card at the end of the meal. I added the $60 to their bill, showed them the original bill and the additional charge for the gift card, and the final total. They handed me a credit card and I charged the bill. They then left $60 and a few $1’s on the table. Fast forward 3 days later my boss texts me saying he has already refunded this customer and now I owe the restaurant $76. I’m really thinking of not showing up on Tuesday. Why should I owe the restaurant anything if I told the customer how they were being charged and the restaurant just gave them the money with no questions asked? I told the customers exactly what I was charging them for and they did not…