Category: Antiwork

My boss decided to start scheduling me (and only me) 6 days a week for the foreseeable future without even directly speaking to me about it. Ofc my schedule is kept perfectly under 40 hrs (literally 38.9 hours) but working 6 days a week. So no OT, no benefits etc. We know this game. When I asked why I'm the only person out of all of the staff who has to work 6 days, I'm told “we can't afford to put anyone else on payroll, it's just how it is” How is that my problem? I hold the belief if you can't afford to keep your business adequately staffed your BUSINESS IS FAILING! The sudden schedule change happened right after I called out one shift a few weeks ago because I was actually shittin my brains out. I worked sick thru both holidays still. I was just going to deal…

Not only did they give me a measly 2.5% after a year of ~14% inflation, they are now requiring us to return to office 3x a week in a metropolitan area that requires people to pay for parking. For me, my commute is an hour into the office so I'm gonna work longer weeks for less pay. I love this country. /s

Im finally leaving a place that was once something i enjoyed as i walked in. Now it’s just a bad feeling walking in. I was working for the company for 4 years. My first year was straight up bad. there was a manager and a supervisor treating me like crap and management did nothing about it. So i quit the first time and came back about 6 months after i heard that the manager quit. supervisor was still there but she quit like a month after. Covid hit and i worked even when it was novice. Once everything started to settle down the first place we opened up for outside dining only. I had to move out from home due to personal issues and my GM ( who is now the director of operations) at the time was upset that i left. But i moved to another location from the…

Seriously, we commit the first 21 years to school and the following 60+ years to work. Even when we can afford to retire we are thrown to the world when old, frail, and often with medical complications. Is this seriously it? We grow less and less attached to communities and more and more dependent on the industrial complex. How do we seriously change this? It’s horrible.

I’m traveling to another country next week for work meetings, and the company expects us to spend $6.67 per meal while on the road.

I have recently escaped a long history of toxic work environments. My jobs were in various healthcare related fields; everything from front line roles to management. Despite the many instances of self sacrifice, abuse, and poor wages, it took over a decade for me to escape. There was a consistent paradigm, a cyclic pattern in every job role that (in hindsight) now reminds me of the situations that keep people in abusive relationships. I live in Canada and we have an amazing and universal healthcare system. However, it is plagued by poor management and a lack of accountability. When these plagues are combined with stressors such as changes in funding and increased work loads, a cycle of abuse is started. Management feels threatened: Perhaps their lack of management skills will become apparent or perhaps it is something simpler, something like job security where their usefulness is questioned. In any case,…