Category: Antiwork

I work for a private health company that deals with people on the spectrum. My boss is a very interesting person. She does a lot of sketchy stuff and tries to get out of giving her employees benefits/pay. I’m not too worried cause I’m sure that she’s gonna get sued by one of the employees soon. I started off as data entry, in which I would copy and paste data to different websites, and then undo it because the boss lady didn’t like the way it looks or whatever reason she gave. Two months into me working there she comes to me with an offer to take the place of her HR person, and if I ran out of things to do in that position, I could come get extra hours doing data entry. I took it because I was bored. Well two weeks into being the poorly informed HR…

So I’m a low-level manager at a global manufacturing company. I disagree with how my company treats and pays its hourly associates on a whole, but one thing we do right is pay employees double for working on holidays. Supply chain demands we work on MLK day? Ok, but we’ll pay you twice as much for your hours worked that day. However, TIL staffing companies don’t pay that out. We hire through temp services meaning everyone has to work a set amount of time through a temp agency before being hired on to our company. MY company pays out holiday pay to everyone. The way temp works is we pay the temp company (plus a premium for finding the employee) and the temp company pays the employee. In summation, we pay our temp associates double time for working holidays, but the temp agencies (3 out of the 4 we employ…

I started a new job as a machinist last week and I’m on my second week and I’m already being humiliated by HR and management. Right now I’m training as a machinist, it’s 46 hours a week which I’ve never done before. I graduated college back in May and the job market has been such trash that I decided to take this opportunity since the money is pretty decent and so are the benefits. However, I am not used to this much physical labor and being constantly on my feet. Nearing the end of week two, I’m finally adjusting to it and I’m not as physically tired anymore. Yesterday, while my trainer was fixing something I decided to sit down for a few moments to rest my feet and body. The trainer thought I fell asleep, I very much wasn’t asleep. I was well aware of what she was doing…

I used to work at 7 eleven and I only worked there for less than a week. One day a manager made me do all the dirty work in the store and she barely lifted a finger while I had to take multiple trash bags out to the dumpster (at least 12) that were filled to the brim and many of the trash bags were filled with juices from slushes,big gulp drinks coffee, and energy drinks. The same manager who brought her infant daughter was openly mocking me asking if I was okay even though a few trash bins were so full, while pulling them out the bins they tilted over. Im only 5’1 and I pulled a stomach muscle bad while trying to keep the trash bags away from my body. That same manager asked me to clean the bathrooms later on that night and offered just to mop…

I work at a cafe as a baker, I have been there for a year. I don't have a lot of contact with the other staff since my work area is downstairs and I am the only baker. It has come to my attention that there is a tipshare pool for the kitchen staff that I was never told about and I have never seen any tips from. This cafe does a lot of business in the summer and I was working 12-16 hours a day producing baked goods and they all sold very well. Does anyone know if there is some legal reason that I could just be arbitrarily excluded from the tipshare right out of the gate? This is in Minnesota. Thanks

Listen to that bs lol. Our team used to be separated by accounts so you would only take calls from the accounts you was working on and you knew most answers to their questions. Management thought it would be better to have everyone answer everyone's calls and told us to just figure it out on the spot lol. So on top of getting questions about things I never heard about, when I email someone and tell them to call me back, I don't even get the call. It's hilarious and sad at the same time.

My work has been cutting everyone down to 1/2 shifts per week, no more than 5h per shift. Our projected earnings for February are $200,000, while our labor budget is roughly $3,200 per week. Even the managers are scrambling, they don't have enough money to schedule a minimum crew for the store. We have 2 people at a time in a full size retail store. We only opened 2 months ago, and our budget is 1/5 of what it was opening week.

I finally quit and decided to drive by for some French fries. When the worker at the window recognized me she said, “It's just me and the manager for the after-school rush. You can come in and work if you want.” I was fricking gobsmacked. One of the reasons I quit is because they kept understaffing the second biggest rush of the day, and as a wage slave, you were supposed to buckle down and not question why that shift was chronically understaffed. EDIT: I went by after the lunch rush when they were slower to see an old friend.

I'm a housekeeper at an assisted living facility in NC. My supervisor told me we're expected to go into vacant bed bug infested rooms to clean even if they haven't been treated. Is that legal?