Category: Antiwork

So I started a new job about a month ago. Asked multiple times when the health plan starts. Was told 30 days. 30 days pass. They said sorry it starts March. Your hire date was Jan 3rd, so you won't be enrolled for another 30 days. I asked, why wasn't that brought up to me earlier? We all agreed on my hire date since I gave two weeks and it was the holidays. They said they wouldn't have had me start during that time anyway. So now my wife and I uninsured for two months. There solution was to convince her to find a better job. (She doesn't have benefits and the employer doesn't contribute to my spouses portion of the plan). The whole situation is fucked up. My boss (who's middle management) asked me what I was going to do and my reply was hopefully I avoid a major…

I had worked for a law firm for over a year. I started off as a file clerk and helped other co-workers around the office in the beginning. Because of my journalism background, they assigned me to talk to every client to get their narrative about what they had gone through in their experience in wildfires. I really did love this job. I was helping their clients cope with the loss they had experienced in wildfires. I worked overtime and tried to show that I was a hard worker, that I was capable to handle any assignment that my boss gave me. Eventually, I was promoted and was told by my boss that he wanted to extend my employment longer than we had agreed. A year into being employed my boss retired and had his daughter take slowly take over. We got along just fine (as a boss and employee…

Don’t get me wrong the occasional good job and thank you’s are okay at times. But recently, my job has been real hectic (ISP tier 1 and having lot of outages in different areas) and there is nothing more aggravating of just getting bombed with calls all day just to keep receiving the same generic (thank you, good job, you’re great team!). At this point I just want to tell them to shut the fuck up and put in more things in place to prevent call queue from exploding.

How did that work out for you? Just curious

So I (43m) get to work today in a warehouse, and the entire team is informed that the restrooms are now locked, and we have to ask for permission to use them because some younger folks wrote on the walls. The company is Expeditors. This is bullshit.

Basically title. The CEO of my company refused to hire someone because they were trans. Another high HR guy bad mouthed young LBGTQ+ people, despite being in a domestic partnership with a man… And other shady not nice stuff like dismantling a female in technology empowerment group because they didn’t want it to be a company bashing sesh. We have very high profile clients, so PR could be useful in exposing these creeps but I’m not sure. My question, how do I take down the nasty people at the top and not ruin the lives and jobs of the people I really like that I work with directly.

Stock holders demanding record profits every quarter are root cause to the economic meltdown. Step 1 was to pay less and less. Now we have hit bottom on that. Step 2 is raise prices, every quarter, until no one can afford anything anymore. Then everything grinds to a halt and you better hope you are on the right side of it. Stock holders need to demand stability for industry and worker if stock holder want their stacks of money to actually buy goods and services, instead of just be kindling for the cave campfire after the global collapse.

I am (was) an appliance installation guy, I got in with this company from a dude I played football with in high school. He’s the lead install man there. I had construction experience for the past 3 years so he wanted me for my tool experience yada yada yada. He thought I would be a good fit for the job. So I took it, and he started me off high in terms of pay hoping I would stay. This is beginning of January this year. My first week, I get bit by a customers dog while I’m carrying their refrigerator on the dolly. I’m on a blood thinner, so I go to the urgent care to get taken care of. From this point on, I ask if we can tell customers to please put their dogs away while we’re working in their home. I bring this up to our boss…