Category: Antiwork

Story time. I worked in a position for 5 years at a marketing and branding company. Branded companies. Did video editing. Designed and managed websites. etc. Made $20 an hour. No benefits or perks. Straight hourly employee. Started right out of college and stayed out of a mix of guilt and anxiety. My coworker at the time convinced me that both her and I were making the same amount of money. Turned out she's a liar and was making something closer to $32hr. She had been lying to me so my pay wouldn't cut into hers. She admitted as much when I finally left the company. I walked when Covid hit. I had the nerve to ask my boss to cover my hours when working from home because he'd only pay us by project rather than the full day when we worked from home. I was sick with Covid and…

So I applied as a server for a casual-upscale corporate restaurant. Everything went perfect, I got a second interview and was hired on the spot. She says she’s sending the paperwork my way to fill out and that I’m starting training next week, even gives me a schedule. Two days later, I get a message saying they’re no longer hiring. I respond politely and tell them I was literally hired on the spot and told to expect paperwork. Never got an answer. I’ve been job hunting for three months now and I’m so exhausted.

It was interesting but at the same time stupid because I had a job interview on Friday and it was for the position of a storekeeper in a company, but then finally the manager told me that I wouldn't work at this place but that my place of work is in the city but elsewhere so I don't know who works there. How workplace looks like I haven't even come into contact with my possible future colleagues in that job this is completely stupid I'm not going to start working somewhere where I don't know what kind of people are there I just care what the environment looks like I've already started a job once where I didn't know how does it look and what kind of people are there and it turned out that in a few days I resigned because those people were horrible, nasty, bad, terrible, it…

Me too not once That's the worst part when you have toxic nasty people in work.

I went to work the other day and the lunch room smelt like salmon. The employers only response was to get cleaners in 3 days later. I tried to find out who did it only to find out it was the cleaner Margaret trying to flush salmon down the sink! Wtf is wrong with people. I can’t blame Margaret though because they don’t pay her enough. I’m so disgusted in the smell I resigned for a lower paying job and crazy thing is, Margaret is a cleaner there too. Sometimes things just don’t work out

Title basically, I've been working at this place for 5 years now and it's been like this since I started but it's affecting me much more this year due to more financial constraints. I used to have a work savings account that I would contribute to fortnightly and when I took leave in the previous years they would pay me with that saved amount after I return from my usual PTO This year that couldn't happen because I already took all my work savings to cover something. Now I've returned to work and I havent been told what's going on, I havent received a payslip and I have no money. I have no money anymore. My saving grace is that I am on standby/after hours calls so my work provides a vehicle for me to use until Friday but I have no clue what to do after that, I've figured…

Y'all really need to read things. The underlying study here wasn't some corporate propaganda trying to trick you back into the office, it's a look into the ways work from home can erode boundaries between work life and personal life. It's not advocating that everybody should go struggle through traffic to get to an office every day, it's suggesting that doing something like taking a walk before and after work can help keep the sense of separation traditionally created by having to physically travel to another place to work — something, it's worth remembering, that doesn't equal driving there. Work from home has its issues, especially when it comes to trying to create boundaries. Problems like 24/7 availability expectations, attempts to regulate what you do at home as if it's an office, and constantly feeling like you're in “work mode” are legitimate and people discussing or studying them are not…