Category: Antiwork

I apologise in advance for the ranty post, I just feel really defeated. Due to DV/mental health, I was kicked out of high school a year before graduation because although my grades were good, my attendance wasn't enough for a passing grade. I worked in fast food right after, I hit a dead-end and I started an administration traineeship. I worked as a trainee for a year, and then an assistant for another year. I loved it, my colleagues started to feel like family and having older women around me helped guide me into adulthood. I'm not sure why, but my line manager and I clashed frequently and I felt like she wasn't giving her 100% and our small team of 3 were receiving the brunt. In my city last year, we had multiple union train strikes which made me late to work. I was regularly asked to fill in…

me and many others were not able to get 40 hours this week. the work place would close an hour or two earlier than scheduled and never have any mention of it on the physical schedule thats updated every morning. yesterday i was home 2 hours earlier than expected, and an hour earlier for today. we were all listed for 6-8 hour shifts on our online portal, but some of us got as little as 4 and a half hours. im having to stretch my budget now because of this. no busy work could be given, as nothing was left to do once everyone but a single closing manager who only closes and not handles tasks was there to make sure everything is finished “on time” which is far earlier than needed. is it even legal to schedule hours longer than needed, than have them finish and leave before the…

I’m really starting to question life and how we need to work to sustain a living. And how every weekend after a 5 day work week I face plant into my couch and struggle to fight fatigue. I wake up my body sore, my mind cloudy, and just want to stay in bed all day. I’m physically burnt out and I don’t even do crazy manual labor. My job deals with seeing people. And people are draining. I just wonder if there is such a thing as work life balance. If I worked part time how could I afford to live under a roof and eat and survive? Usually after 1 day is wasted sleeping and resting the next day I feel generally better. But then it’s back to work again to go thru the same grueling week and feel the same thing all over again. I’m not old, healthy…

so tonight's been a real hoot. i work at a subway where only managers are allowed keys into the store, but there is not a manager on every shift and i work alone most weekends. oh, and we also have a door that leads to the restrooms that decides to lock itself behind you every now and then. i'm sure you can see where this is going. closing shift. alone. all that i had left to do was count the register and clock out. then i suddenly had to piss something fierce, so i grabbed the bathroom keys and bounced. click! my manager told me to leave and he will be there in about 20 or so minutes to unlock the store and it will probably be my responsibility to go back and finish closing up shop, i also need to get all of my essentials that are still in…