Category: Antiwork

A friend of mine (living and working in NY state) recently took a job with a major mass media company – a full salary and benefits position. They received a benefit FAQ sheet and an associated website outlining the company’s benefits available to employees during the hiring process. These documents and website were broad overviews at best and did not include specific details for each of the benefits. My friend and their partner are expecting a baby in May 2023, they accepted the job in early December 2022. Upon actually starting the job and reading the Employee Handbook it turns out the parental leave is only eligible for employees who have 6 months completed at the company. Nowhere in the benefit documentation provided did it state that 6 months of employment was required in order to receive the parental leave benefit. My friend inquired with an HR executive that she’ll…

Hi all. I was laid off in December and I feel like total shit that I'm not working right now, but the thing is I hate working. I enjoy all the time I have when I get home and spending time with my wife and son. I have this weird mental thought process where I feel like a total failure if I'm not working. Thankfully I do freelance work that almost pays as much as my old full time job, but when I have downtime I feel like I'm not doing enough. Why do I feel this way? Anyone else relate?

I work at a restaurant, so cursing and shouting is kinda the norm, but today was a bit different. My bosses wife is always complaining about everything, walking slowly through the kitchen, smoking in it and basically doing nothing to the point that my boss usually gets angry at her. Today was a very stressful day, we were understaffed and peole just kept coming. She already unfairly complained about a couple of things so I was already kinda angry but keeping it together. But later, she started smoking where I wash the dishes (as she usually does) and put the ashtray with the lit cigarette on the plates I just cleaned. I shouted to the boss to tell her to not smoke there, then I told her. The boss told me, smiling as if he was trying to calm the situation, to put the plates in another place, so, infuriated,…

So, I’m a recent college grad (22) and got my first job back in May. It was in my field which made me excited and it was with a highly spoken of company. I recently got fired and wanted to rant about what happened because it makes me so upset and angry. I got there and got “trained” by two more senior artists in a specific application. This application is not available to basically anyone outside of my industry because of price and I had been fortunate enough to get a “student” copy to learn a little bit before hand. That being said, it wasn’t something I was well-trained in. My job description said I would assist the seniors and learn from them but that lasted for two weeks. During those two weeks I got an hour of training every two days and most of it was kind of simple…

Just need that out of my chest. I’ve been working as an manager for 4 years in a Forbes top 100 company and got fired on the 31st of December. I was managing a team of 90 people in 4 countries, I speak 4 languages fluently, 7 languages if you count the one I need to think before I speak. We went through covid, war in Ukraine and every time I was there, 24/7, no week-end, no holidays for 3 years, just some mornings here and there because I needed to sleep and there were no calls. My wife told me a million time I should just quit and I always answered it was not ethical to do that as the company was struggling. I burnt out in October, found myself crying in front of my computer on a Thursday, considered just leaving a note saying I was leaving, basically…

I’ve been working at this new place for about 6 months now, it’s a call center type job but for properties. People call in and report damage to their property & i just send someone over to fix it. Not gonna lie, it started off kind of smooth. Had a little 2 days of training and after that they just basically threw me in the deep end and told me if i have questions to ask co-workers. I did that and after asking co-workers i would hear them telling each other how they’re getting kinda pissed off with my constant asking. 1 week in the manager had a full blown argument in the group chat with a employee, calling names and asking about her education level, crazy stuff. Whenever i didn’t do my job right they would go to the manager and complain, manager comes in and without asking any…

Hello, I am using a throwaway account. I work for smaller division in a very large worldwide company where I am in charge of accounting and finance. Ever since being hired a few months ago, I have felt like things have been “off.” I feel like I am continually lied to and feel like I’m the only person that wants to do this “right.” One of my intuitions appeared correct as I have discovered the company hires illegal aliens that are not eligible to work in the US. The GM of the company asked me to have my tram continue to pay which I outright refused. I have seen manipulation in financial results. I have seen an employee (who owns one of the buildings) inflate their invoice after being told not to. I’m not sure what to do at this point. I have zero trust in the company. I do…

For clarification purposes, legitimately every week, I get asked if I will work overtime and usually I get called on my days off OR called to work a 16hr shift either before or after an afternoon/midnight. And if someone wants to take off for a week I ask whomever I cover the shift with, “Do you want to work 12s?” to the reply of “No, we don't do that around here and refuse to do it longterm.” Why?! I get 8hrs of OT but why on earth would you willingly want to do that to yourself? It's like it's a punishment or a “It's always been this way. Nag nag nag….” I get the drive for money and in my career, overtime is practically written into the contract, but to be expected to work them often is insane to me. Maximum amount allowed is three 16s back to back before…