Category: Antiwork

I work for a small independent retail business (means they can get away with a lot under the “Companies with less than 15 employees” labor law exceptions) in a major US city and I essentially run the social media for pennies on the dollar on top of my regular retail shift lead duties. I was denied a raise I was promised (verbally, a mistake I will not make again) back in July when I began social media training. Two weeks ago, my manager (the owner of the business makes her play telephone because he knows staff won’t blame her, as the messenger) informed me that I wouldn’t be getting a raise because A) I had gotten one in August when I took over social media (though I do not consider an increase of pay to reflect increase of responsibility to be the same thing as a raise) and B) I…

I’ve been at my current job for 2 years and I’ve been busting my ass to learn as much as I can! I average 50-55 hour work weeks and I have the highest metrics every week (no exaggeration). I am an operations 1 employee which is at the bottom but for the last year I’ve been doing operations 2 work which is the next role up. I am very good at my job and am a big source of help to the other employees. I was denied a promotion in September 2022 because I do my job too well and they didn’t have someone to replace me…The next promotion round is now, February and I’m finally getting promoted to operations 2, but with much less pay than the two operations 2 employees. I would like to add that I also helped trained the other two operations 2 employees when they…

So we have pvp piping that we take down and clean. If you don't take them down a certain way, it's impossible to put back up. My boss just started taking them apart, and I advised him not to do it that way because it will be ten times harder to get back together. What does he tell me? “Yeah, just tell me what to do.” Guys, he sounded like an upset teenager, but I guess his plan was to just put it together in his own way? He was being pissy and aggressive after that, so I told him he was being aggressive. It made me super uncomfortable, so I emailed hr and asked for a transfer, because this isn't the first instance of this and I just saw a storm coming and wanted to get out. Sometime later, he changes his mind. Now it's my job to put…

Incoming long rant: It’s the “anymore” part that gets me because nobody has ever wanted to work. My dad says it all the time which is so ironic considering we’re black Americans. Does he not know why slavery exists? I know Atlantic slave trade is more complex than the colonizers not wanting to work but this country was built on free labor that they didn’t want to do. I’m not saying what we’re going through today (at least not within the states, maybe at the sweatshops overseas) is slavery but i will say most work is modeled after slavery. We’re expected to work our asses off to make our higher ups richer while we barely get our basic needs met. Most workplaces are toxic because everyone’s miserable and playing work politics to make more money to survive. Everyone’s miserable because we’re all in survival mode. So many people are one…

Was struggling and I needed to leave my old job for something that paid more. Landed a 9-5 wfh receptionist job and I'm thankful I found it when I needed but I'm already so drained … it's insane. So I'm wondering if I'd actually have any luck finding a wfh, full time job with less demanding workload? What should I look for ?

After returning to the office after mandatory remote work ended last year, I've noticed a weird pattern with my co-worker, who I share the same position with. She takes off many chance she gets, leaves early nearly daily and uses FMLA like vacation leave. I understand that she is preparing for retirement in the next few years, and moved further away from the office, putting a strain on her commute. Her goal is to come in early, and leave as soon as an opportunity presents. She's the person who comes in earlier than her shift, and Comps lunch to leave earlier, which I am unable to do. I have asked to work her earlier shift, during her many absences, but with little success. She has a husband with “Cronic Pain”, which does not prevent him from calling her 20 times a day to talk about something he saw on TV.…

I was let go from my job last week. Today the HR guy who was a part of the firing texted my personal cell phone to ask me how I am doing and to list him as a referral should I ever need to. What would you do in this situation?

For context, this situation happened to my wife in the state of Idaho. She quit a job and then reapplied to the same job because she was desperate. They said to her “you're hired” at the end of the interview but when she was about an hour and a half into the first day of orientation, they said they can't hire anyone who has previously worked at (insert work place name here) and told her to leave. So, did that place of work violate any laws by leading my wife on into thinking she had a job there but then pulled the rug out from under her and not paying her for an hour of orientation?