Category: Antiwork

This has been running around in my head way too long and I just need to get it out. I’m sure there are other people who feel the same way. I’m currently working at a company that doesn’t treat their employees like canon fodder. I’ve worked there for about 8 months. I didn’t have these anxieties until my direct supervisor went on medical leave. I worked in retail before I moved over to health care. The worst time in retail was working the front end at a grocery store that I will not name. I also worked pickup at this store as well. On the front end, the manager was micromanaging, condescending, and just generally awful. When she left for the night the entire store was more relaxed. We could breathe again. I thoroughly enjoyed her days off and vacations. The manager in pickup was a literal ray of sunshine.…

This happened a few days ago. A co-worker had a medical emergency at work, collapsed out of their chair and died on the floor in the middle of the work day. While this is distressing and horrific enough to see, what's infuriating for me is that the company barely even stopped the work that was going on. They kept everyone working, with the exception of the immediate people dealing with the emergency, until they absolutely had to move people because EMTs needed to move the person. This person collapsed and died on shift, and my employers treated it like the person was an obstacle to be cleared so that work could continue. I don't work for a tiny company. I work for a fairly large, “Progressive” corporation that acts like it loves its employees. I knew it was an act before this, but seeing this situation really proves to me…

My sister/roommate worked at a retail company for about a month while the company was still establishing that location. I saw that because she says it was super disorganized—there was always some complication anytime basically anything happened, and they never had anything for her to do. The manager in charge of her paychecks isn’t even the manager of the location, but in California instead. Anyway, she quit around early November, probably around 6 weeks, so 3 pay stubs worth, in. But she never received a direct deposit or a check. At first they told her they had mailed it, and that was a complication on our end. We had never received a mail key from our apartment complex and honestly hadn’t thought about it, so when we finally opened the box it turns out it had said “vacant” on a card. We fixed that, and she emailed the manager in…

So beyond frustrated right now. I've interviewed with 3 companies in the past month, and this is the second one to pull this crap. It was a real hassle for me to go to this last interview. My car is breaking down, really shouldn't be driven but I had no other way to get there, and I skipped a really important event to take the interview. Got there only to wait 45 minutes past my interview time, then realized that what they needed was different than what I expected. I probably could have done the job they needed, however, they advertised as full time when it was actually part time. Like literally ON THE APPLICATION SITE it said “This is a full time job. If you are looking for part time, please apply to this other site”. And of course, it was the company/job I was the most excited about.…