Category: Antiwork

I won't say where I work in the interest of job security (long story short is that the company I work for has given me reason to believe that if this is traced to me that I will lose my job and I cannot afford that) but I have a bit of story here to tell, and I'm curious if my active suspicion are misplaced or not. So, about a week ago, I had to use the restroom. Where I work (I will say it is a truck stop setting) we have an hourly check on our restrooms. My need to use the restroom coincided with one of those checks, so I hopped on our radios and asked if I could go use the restroom and while I was up there I would take care of said check. Was told no, and no attempt was made to come cover my…

An anonymous survey of our team of 5 has been requested, critiquing our manager for his boss and he to go over it. Are they trying to fire him? Can I just ignore it? Cause God knows it won’t be hard to figure out who is who… and the head of HR will “be the only one who sees and will create a list of themes to share with the manager and his boss”

I want to strike, I want to revolt, but they don't do anything if we don't convince people that what we want works for them too. How do we build a mutual aid network to help those afraid of losing work?

I’ve working in an engineering company for almost 4 years. I don’t want to say what kind of company for confidentiality purposes. The first two I worked as a test engineer and I definitely learned a lot as my boss really wanted to teach and pass on the knowledge. Then I decided I wanted to get some design experience so when an opening in the engineering department I applied and got transferred. My new boss told me that I’d be getting trained in the first few months I was there but during my two years in the engineering department it’s been a real struggle for me to learn how to design anything. One of my biggest hurdles is getting anyone of my co-workers to explain steps in the design process to me. I always get a partial explanation and when I try to dig a little deeper I either get…

So my girl and I work in the corporate live events industry in Utah and there's like 3 big companies that actually produce those big 10s of thousands of people events Then they pay a mix of labor companies and individuals on 1099 contractor basis which is another giant pain in the ass that's definitely seudo illegal but not the current issue So labor coordinator from labor company X (call her Brittany calls me and we're friendly enough that she unloads some information about why me and my girlfriend haven't been getting as much work lately. Apparently she's been friends with the labor coordinator from the main big company (Karen) for a decade or more and they talk still but apparently Karen HATES MY GUTS for unknown reasons (I've had very few interactions with her and I've never fucked up an event or given her reason to feel that way)…

There’s two types of people. One that has worked his knuckles to the bone to achieve success or the other one that’s privileged. He has success handed to him on a silver platter. They both have one thing in common. They’re out of touch with reality as they just tell you to your face “get a job you bum, it ain’t that hard”. I was prior service and i got into an argument with someone who didn’t support the military telling me that “if you can’t find a real job then there’s something wrong with you”. He says this to denigrate people who join for social safety net. Is it common for people to blame poor or lower class for everything? Tell them that they’re lazy and looking for handouts? Where’s this misplaced hatred coming from? It’s easy to say “finding a job is easy” or “you need to work…

So I recently got a new job a few months back, and during my interview I explicitly let my manager know that I could only work at 7 earliest on the weekdays. I don't currently have a car because my last one was totalled the day before my interview and I rely on my parents to take me to and from work. My manager has slowly been scheduling me earlier and earlier and I was scheduled for 5 this upcoming week. I emailed her and pointed out to her that I literally cannot work at that time, and now she is making me find someone to switch shifts with or find someone to cover my shift. I don't think that it should be my resposibility to do that. I don't know how to handle this and its becoming frustrating to me, any advice would be appreciated.

In the US, individual strikes are a protected right of workers, regardless of union membership. It is considered retaliation to fire someone in the process of a strike, and said retaliation is illegal.