Category: Antiwork

So I work for company A. Company A bought company B. They make me do customer service for company B as a “Guinea pig employee” for their poorly planned merger. Company B will be closed for inventory for the rest of the week so I will be the one person customer service rep. Again. For the next 3 days. I will be the only phone/live chat/email person. Everyone else is doing inventory or at home. They didnt tell me anything till the last minute. AGAIN. This is the third time. They said that “it should be slow” and sure it is going to be slower than December but it’s incredibly disrespectful to me to not be told till the last minute that I have to work alone again. I come in even if company a is closed because company b is opened. I come in when company b is closed…

Usually be it in person or virtually. You are expected to attend a job interview 15 or so minutes early. I had an interview that should have happened a couple minutes ago. I wasted 30 minutes of my time hoping for someone to join the conference call to no avail. Yet when we the working people 🤔 are 5 minutes late. All of a sudden all our professionalism and skills and experience we have as candidates become irrelevant in the interview.

The work wouldn’t be so bad if it wasn’t for such long hours. 10am to 7pm was my shift today. I’m female and the rest of my colleagues are male. They’re all lovely to me and I love them all. I’m very lucky in terms of help the guys give me.. like today a water pump was so heavy to pick up. Joe watched me try and then offered to get it for me. Some of the stuff I just can’t lift. But there’s tons of small parts nuts, spacers etc that I pick all the time. I justify doing heavy manual labour as I don’t need to join a gym. Today was my first day back at work after the Xmas holidays and my arms ache and my legs ache. My parents always praise me for working hard.. if it wasn’t for their praise I don’t think I could…

Got my first salaried job but not too long ago, and I’m really struggling to see how this setup benefits employees in the slightest. Another professional I know said if you’re salaried and making less than $200k, you’re getting screwed, but really, is there any scenario in which being salaried works to the employee’s advantage? Do salaried positions typically come with benefits that hourly ones don’t?

I worked at Sbux for a couple months when I first moved out to Oregon (2018). I had to quit with no notice a couple months in because it's a terrible job, terrible company, demeaning for slave wages, etc (we all know Sbux sucks). I recently received a settlement check from a class action lawsuit. Turns out, multiple Sbux in Oregon were NOT PAYING FINAL CHECKS & ILLEGALLY TAXING TIPS. They flat out stole my money, got caught doing it to hundreds of others, & still get to do business. we all know Sbux still does this, will continue to do this, & is actively illegally union busting. So Wtf is up with everyone still drinking their shitty overpriced coffee?!