Category: Antiwork

I’m just ranting into the ether, come along with me, maybe you will learn something from my troubles. I bet you’ve heard this statement before and even if the situation is a good one, please be careful. Now if you’re bringing in the big bucks, then maybe the risk is worth the reward. However, I’m talking about normal jobs, hourly work, making about 20-21 bucks an hour, no benefits, but the work isn’t that bad. At first the job wasn’t something super stressful, office administrative work. But now I’ve been here almost 2 years, done A LOT, and before I was at 18/h but I got a bump start of 2022. So naturally you wanna be compensated more because you’ve been here longer and good to the company, your family who is your boss got you the job and, you’ve been told (by the owner, not my family) that you…

Okay so long story short, I work for a company that requires 4 weeks in the office before working completely from home. They also supposedly have a 100% attendance policy for the first 90 days of employment, however, only I and one other coworker have actually had perfect attendance. I have CRPS, and I’m experiencing the worst flare I’ve had in 6 years, so driving is getting difficult for me. I am supposed to start working from home Monday, although some of my coworkers are starting tomorrow. I’m wondering if asking to start working from home tomorrow as opposed to Monday would be a reasonable accommodation.

I work at an easy job making pretty good money. Basically I work at a front desk. Lately they have been asking me to get on phones. Now our regular phone doesn't ring unless they have our specific location extention so it never rings. They want me to do the call center when I have downtime. They give you a headset and there's a specific website and everything. The only thing that bugs me a lot is call centers are very micro managed. At least this one is. You have to ask to use the restroom and you cannot do anything without a manager's permission. I can work the desk, keep myself busy, help customers and answer the phone if need be but the call center is too much for me especially because I'm the only one here. Also there is nothing in the job description about answering phones for…

Paid lunch, this should be required across the board. Cool if you got some good paying job (that usually comes with the benefits too), this isn’t about you. I’m talking about the normal, average, common wage force. If you are hourly you should not have to clock out/not be paid, to cram your face as fast as possible because labor laws say after 6 hours you HAVE to have lunch. You are forced by the law to add and extra 30 minutes to your 8 hour shift (or 6.01). Employers should front this half hour of pay. I find it so dumb I have to waste my time, after 5 day week thats 2.5 hours, that turns a 9-5 to a 8:30-5, so your leaving the house before 8. I know labor laws are important, but this one requiring a lunch (without pay) is redundant. It’s more to give the…

I’m currently listening to my partner interviewing for an AM position at a generic chain restaurant and the recruiter is discussing how awesome it is that you can donate your PTO to anyone in the company (eye roll) But it gets worse- they go on to tell a story where they know a young father who lost their baby and wife in a car accident and the father had no PTO to grieve and couldn’t afford to take time off. So instead of said generic chain restaurant doing the right thing and gifting the employee PTO to grieve, all of the other employees gifted him their remaining PTO for the year so he could have time to grieve. AND THIS WAS A POSITIVE STORY 🤯

I’m so damn frustrated and pissed off about this. If I had known I was being fired, I would’ve been able to look for a new job this entire month. But no, I’m not even afforded that dignity, am I? I wasn’t even told WHY I was being removed/fired, it just happened.

Like that is her role. I work in accounting under this manager and she reports to the controller. She reviews all of my work, pretty much always done perfectly, and finds little things that I’m pretty sure don’t actually matter. Then she makes me email and message and call 20 people to resolve it or she brings it up in a meeting or makes a meeting just to discuss that or all of the above. Example. There is this analysis I do every month. It’s done the exact same way every month. I do it as always but this month she goes “Why doesn’t this amount show up on this report?”. I quite literally responded “…Why would it?” She loops me into a group call with this other guy to bring it up and he explains why it wouldn’t be on the report and why it never has. Still, my…