Category: Antiwork

I have been in the IT industry in a service role and basically what we are told is that the customer is God and always right. The other day one of my colleagues had a really nasty incident wherein the customer basically said that my colleague is a vendor and a labourer, he should report to the customer since he has taken 24*7 support and that he should not question why some task is getting delayed from the customer end. The funny part is my colleague is in a service role and not support role, so basically 1 day of service is 8 hours which the customer did not knew. Hearing all this really made my blood boil and feel bad for my colleague. He just quietly listened to the customer and tried to explain in a calm manner. Even my colleague's manager is on the “customer is god” bandwagon…

Working making $50k/year for a family of three is hard. How do you guys do it? We can't afford to do “fun things” vacations are our of the question, we try to do free things but parks, museums and libraries are getting old. Help?

I'm still a little confused by this one. However it coincided with me writing out every dish on the menu and execution so I suppose they didn't need me anymore. What does get to me though is we had a cook no call no show, ruined my weekend, and they wouldn't let me fire him until a week later when he did it again, ruining that weekend too. I actually show and for anyone who cares it was slow as all hell and I managed to open the kitchen in less than 5 minutes of walking in. I had informed them I would be late as soon as I realized what had happened (new phone forgot it wasn't my old phone with a set alarm) as is the common etiquette. Sent several letters of appeal. Nothing. Best I can tell they were planning on getting rid of me as soon…

I'm generally unskilled and have only ever worked jobs where they hire people off the street. Given that any slouch, moron or ham-fist could be coming through their doors seeking employment, these corporations have to protect their asses from liability and the way they do this is by assuming every employee was born yesterday. I'm not a prideful person, but being plopped down in front of a VHS tape on safety or a dinky computer terminal to do some training module is humiliating. I feel like I'm being treated like a child because that is exactly how we treat children. I know I have no place to whine because this is exactly the life I asked for; if I wanted desperately to be given the benefit of the doubt and treated like a serious adult I probably would have made different moves. I just wanted to vent I guess. I…

I work for a relatively small business in Oregon right now. Was being paid $15.50/hr to do retail work and my boss kept trying to push me into more management work. This after I figured out how to make a barcode printer work so we could actually scan items instead of having to type them in. She said I should replace her when she's out of the store and I said I'd need at least $17/hr for that. She raised me to $16/hr. So hey, it's a raise, but not enough for me to be a full-on manager. Honestly, after I programmed a custom specialized application for generating barcodes based on the existing system of categorizing items, I sure wish I was making more. I've been quite above and beyond but she doesn't care.

I was tasked with hiring an overseas assistant. Something feels wrong. Throwaway account in case this is just as wrong as it feels. I (29f) work for an independently owned franchise. I’ve been with them for 5 years, and I love the business and what it stands for, but not the biggest fan of my employers themselves (but really who is?). My employer tasked me with hiring one overseas virtual assistant in the Philippines to make phone calls and other tasks, and if I am able to do so, I was promised a 5k per year raise. He got me in contact with another franchise doing this, and the owner of the franchise didn’t know anything about how they manage it, how they run it, etc., and basically gave me the run around that if an employee worked remotely down the road it’s the same thing. He said he gets…

I most likely going to get fired at work. I'm going to ask out someone that I work with, and for some reason, I just can't stop thinking about it. I know that even if she says yes I'm still going to get in trouble. I have another job lined up so I'm just going to do it and wait for the consequences.