Category: Antiwork

Hi there, hoping y’all can help me settle my nerves over this. I started a new job back in October ‘22, it’s a small company about 40 people. On 12/23, I was online all day, responded to a few emails, got a couple things done. Same deal all through the next week minus the weekday makeup “holidays” like day after Christmas, day after New Years Day. Today, I logged into my HR software to check how my (already very little) PTO accrual has been going since my start date. I noticed that I was -8.00 hours than I expected to be. Turned out my HR director “approved” a full PTO day from me on 12/23. When I asked her about this and whether it was a mistake, she said “I understood that you were sick that day, no?” I did not request this day off in the system or via…

Not a unique problem, we see these posts every few days. I've worked for this store for over ten years (single location retail, only person above me is the owner and her partner). I was hired as a manager, and I'm in part of Maryland that actually has a $15 minimum wage so I've received somewhere regular raises as the employees that were making $12 got a raise to $13, etc, to keep in line with the minimum. I completely drank the company Kool aid, and then since COVID lockdown, my boss continued to make terrible decision after terrible decision. She was doing weird things like changing store policies that didn't harm her and had been in place for 15+ and it started to isolate the customer base. In fact, it was driving customers away. She started to get extremely aggressive and mean to customers, and that made it even…

For context many of the vehicles used by the park district I was working for had defects with power steering, One day I was given one of these trucks to use for the day and it resulted in me losing control of the vehicle and crashing. No parties were injured but the vehicles are driveable and therefore I was to be subjected to a drug test (urinalysis). At the time I didn't know that I could refuse the drug test and resign as my boss implied it was required by law. Now I am applying for park jobs in a different state and I am worried there is someway to access the information about my firing and positive drug test. Is there some sort of database that I am now in? Do I have any recourse in the situation to get records expunged? Thank you for your help

What was your experience like? Did you get paid more? What happened and in what industry?

Resigned today with a short notice period (couple days). Managers making me feel bad I lied and said I’m leaving for personal reasons (really have a better paying job lined up). Will they know and check if I do gain employment once I leave? Manager was making me feel really bad and angry at me for such a short notice.

Just had a team meeting and my manager was telling us how we have to keep following up with prospects, make those outbound calls, and work hard to make sales when they completely took away our commission structure a few months ago. Also said that we should be doing it for “integrity” and to “build character”, I almost threw up from how nauseating it was.

Every so often we schedule rep lunches during our lunch hour (which is our only break period). It pisses me off because I want a break, not free lunch and a meeting. A meeting is not a break just because y’all buy us lunch. I don’t even eat lunch.

Question for the squad at large: I work in a call center that uses a phone dialer called Noble, through Salesforce. I'm ok taking calls and all that but being to be in the queue and taking calls back to back is rough sometimes. Does anyone have experience with these systems, enough to know of a way to cheat the system a little? Like moving myself into certain statuses to help “pad my stats” or give myself an extra bit of break? I hate being monitored for the whole time, that's just something to deal with in a call center and that's fine I can deal. But I'd love to figure out how to game it a bit to relieve some of the pressure of being in queue all day. Also, feel free to just complain about jobs with back to back work flow and minimal time to breathe or…