Category: Antiwork

This is kind of the opposite of what this subs about but I figured someone here might have some experience with it. I’ve been having trouble finding a second job and I have been starting to wonder if it’s possible to work a second job at the same company. I work in a production environment and I got lucky with the position I got but there’s a lot of work in other areas that’s less physical/less skilled that I’d be interested in. I’ve thought about asking my department manager if I could start doing some other work around the plant, possibly at a different wage. Does anyone have any experience with this? Is it possible to have two separate positions at the same place to avoid overtime? They’re kind of cheap but there’s a lot of things I’m interested in learning so I wouldn’t mind taking a pay cut for…

I became sick at the start of the first week back to work and asked for sick leave for the week. I work as a designer at a prestigious consulting firm, and am one of 2 designers on a project. For context, I started off asking for Monday and Tuesday off, worked the Wednesday as I’d gotten multiple emails asking to finish off some urgent work, then took Thursday and Friday off as well since I wasn’t feeling much better. On Friday, my manager texted my phone at 12pm asking if I can work the afternoon to get some stuff done as the other designer is taking longer than expected to finish a task and is going on leave the following week. Is this considered out of line or toxic work behavior?

So I work for a small DBE company, and there are no more than 5 people working here. Time keeping isn’t a real thing and if we show up and do work, we are paid. PTO is kept track of on a whiteboard and we progress from there. Employer wanted to touch base on why I had more PTO than he had expected and I explained to him that they were added up from travel days when he gave me the next day off after coming home, but I inform him I would still come in and save the day for PTO. He had requested us to work on December 26th 2022 and January 2nd 2023, 2 observed holidays since the days before landed on Sunday. All this totaled to more days than what he had thought initially. He then requested that I keep a list of 2023 holidays so…

My boss is super money hungry and told me I need to stop telling customers we’re closing in 5 min so they don’t feel rushed while ordering their food as it can potentially cause them to leave. I told them that’s unfair to me since I’m scheduled for a certain time and I only get $5 every 30 min I stay past closing. How am I in the wrong to tell customers to stop coming in FIVE minutes before closing at a FOOD SERVICE PLACE.

I work for blank Credit Union in Colorado Springs. We’re the red logo credit union. Just look at all credit unions in Colorado and look for it. Our company is about to cross the $10 Billion dollar mark. Meaning they’re cutting costs. They cut out benefits and they cost more now. They reprimand us for overtime yet they told us they would fire us if deny new bank accounts close to closing, meaning we are being forced to stay past our closing times, meaning we incur overtime. They cut Christmas bonuses. They are forcing us to sell credit cards that’s are inherently misleading to the buyer, yet I’d we don’t produce, they will fire us. They’re firing people for minor mistakes, and leaving those branches understaffed, almost as if it’s to cut labor costs. They’re not even hiring for promotions anymore. They force us to do jobs we don’t have…