Category: Antiwork

If you are going to send me a email for an interview and then reject me the next day. What's the fucking point? Send me an interview if you're actually gonna hire me. Stop wasting my fucking time.

I am a 19 year old and I’m tight for cash. I work in the cafe industry and therefore the wages and working conditions aren’t the best. I work at a sub minimum wage rate (I’m UK based and this is totally legal due to my age) and I’ve worked day in day out since September. My employer wants me to work 50+ hours per week, so I decided to look around to see other cafe options, with some offering 11 hours 4 days a week + midnight shifts as required. Any advice on how to survive this?

I graduated with a useless degree, history. Been stuck in retail for 2 years since I graduated. Kinda want to know what options exist

I have worked in hotels for quite a few years and more recently noticed that a lot of people in hotels housekeeping to front desk and resturaunt hostesses are all Argentinian. They are the new minority exploited for labor often from agencies and having no papers and often being paid below market rate which is inherently predatory within itself. A hotel I left an overnight desk agent from an agency was being paid 15 while from the actual company was closer to 20 an hour. The last job I worked my replacement also from an agency makes 14 while agents directly employed I believe are either at 16/17. Even with these poor increases in salary hotels are not full staffed and are more empty then ever. I hope the trend continues and pushes these business to pay more or go out of business. Does any one notice these trends in…

Applied for a job at a doggie daycare and got an email back from them saying they loved my resume and asked if I could do a phone interview the next day at 11am. I said yes that works and they replied great, talk to you tomorrow. I spend the rest of the night and next morning getting ready for the interview and putting of all the stuff I had planned on doing. Then 11 comes and goes and I don't hear from them, I think maybe they're busy and will call soon enough. 45 minutes goes by and I haven't heard from them so I send an email asking if we were still doing the interview that day. 2 more hours goes by and still nothing so I email again. It has now been 3 days and not a single word from them. Really pisses me off because I…

I've worked for a major retail chain for almost two years. I'm a full-time supervisor and have had zero write-ups or oral warnings. While retail provides my primary income, I'm also an adjunct professor at a local university, teaching two classes a semester. When this major corporation hired me, they knew about the 6 or so hours a week that I'm unavailable due to my teaching schedule, but they said it wasn't an issue. Today, however, they sat me down and handed me a copy of a company policy (effective back in 2005 but never enforced) that says I must have open availability and must either resign or switch to part-time (and likely take a demotion). Either way, my income isn't enough to survive. I'm in NJ. What are my options? What if I refuse to decide one or the other? Any advice is appreciated!