Category: Antiwork

So I've been applying for jobs and the only replies I'm getting are not who I applied for. For example, I applied to work for a Mortgage company in a data entry position and I got a reply that seemed more like an impatient toddler sent the email and they are from a medical/health facility for a data entry position that I never applied to, followed by a Ring Central invite to interview through. This seems to be more like a bait and switch and not legit. Anyone else running into these sort of things? I just deleted the emails. How is anyone supposed to find work or want to trust a company when what you apply for isn't what you ended up applying for?

So I work in a large office building (6 floors). There are two elevators and 3 flights of stairs. I always take the stairs because I want to get the steps in and also because it’s faster (except maybe to the sixth floor). Like over the course of a year if I had to go from one floor or the other, I and whoever walked with me would arrive at the meeting before the people who waited for the lift, except if you had to get from the first to the sixth floor where they would typically but not always, arrive just before us! Now I’m not running or power walking or anything even slightly close to intense. My new manager is overweight. I don’t judge her at all but I do think it plays a part in this story. She is in all my meetings and noticed that I…

I was recently hired by a somewhat large food chain in the Northeast US for a retail job. It was an extremely shady interview where I basically was hired on the spot. I went into the job after a bit of time. On my first day of working, I was unable to complete my computer work such as training and filling out banking information because the computer wasn't working. I got my “schedule” for the week and it was on a piece of paper. I got it before I started my shift and had so much else to work on that I misplaced it. There was no other way to access my shifts and the clock in and out machines also required a manager to swipe me in and out, which I didn't always have on hand. After 3 shifts in this mess of a store, one of which I…

I work in a warehouse by myself, no supervision and i gef shit done when theres stuff to do. Theres a company computer back here and my dumbass goes on the odin project, downloads a virtualbox and works on Linux on my spare time. Meanwhile the guys up front stand in one spot watching tik toks or youtube when theirs nothing to do. So I learn at work while getting paid and I understand company computer, secruity policy could be a threat and I accept that. Wont do it again but I was able to do it for three straight months before they noticed anything then they wrote me up with a final warning for it, they want me to learn customer service up front (eww) but ill just stay in the back. Currently just on my phone learning about it and no one cares.

Can we talk about the media's treatment of Big Tech layoffs in the past couple of months? A few things: 1) Big Tech's layoffs have not really affected other sectors – they've been confined to a few companies in a specific (or I guess one could say “elite”) part of the market. Which suggests that these companies engineered this “crisis”; it's not a reflection of the overall economy or state of the labor market. 2) Can we all acknowledge that layoffs at all companies are essentially the same? It sucks for the worker and it's viewed as a cost cutting measure for the employer. That is the basic summary whether it's happening at Google or Chick-fil-a. And I can guess that if a VP at the latter company were getting a pink slip, a sympathizer with someone in the same position in Silicon Valley would call that “a natural consequence…