Category: Antiwork

I’ll let you be the judge but I’m pretty sure this is textbook gaslighting. I got a new job, It’s delivering appliances for Lowe’s, but it’s down a contracting chain. Lowe’s gives the contracts to LCS or whatever, and then they hire contractors like my boss, who then go hire random people like me to drive box trucks and install appliances. It’s not an hourly job, I get $140 a day. The issue is I start at 6am and usually get off around 6pm, the latest I’ve gotten off so far is 1 am, yes the next day. Oh and my boss actually expected me back at work in five hours. I just said I didn’t sleep at all (I was smokin weed pretty late) and then he’s like “ ok see you tommorow. It will get better. I care about you I don’t want to see you out that…

Hey y’all, just curious of your thoughts on this. End of year reviews came around, and I did well. My boss wants me to become a leader in the store. That’s wonderful. However, she wants me to read a particular book to improve leadership skills. I am swamped at work (I work in a cell phone store, you all know how busy they get), and would have to take time out of my time off to read it. I am not interested in this book and I am a full time worker and a full time student. What are your thoughts on this? I want to tell her no, but I can’t figure out a cordial way to say, sorry, I won’t do that outside of work. She’s very much the work is family type, they are all wonderful people, but I will not be doing that on my own…

This is what happened to me today. I got pulled into my bosses office today (right after he called me out loud enough for everyone in earshot to hear). I had said that I needed to leave on time today because I had something going on this afternoon. They usually ask me to stay an extra hour on busy days (we get a lot of business on Valentine’s day weekend) but today I had to go. You would have thought I said I was going to kill someone. That pissed him off for some reason. It’s not like I worded it like “hey, I’m not staying late today”. He then lectures and goes hard on me while in his office and curses at me while doing so. That is no way to talk to your employees. He’s lucky I didn’t quit right then and there. Especially since I did nothing…

The sweatshop I work at in Texas processes hospital laundry. I was just recently a scale operator who was demoted after working at the scale for two months (only getting paid the rate for it for one paycheck out of 4 pay periods so far as well -_- ), since apparently I “complained too much”. Of which some of my “complaints” were suggestions for reducing the scansheets down to only those barcodes we actually have orders for or frequently do, which would reduce 35 pages of wasted paper and toner down to 3 pages at most. The last “complaint” that I made before being demoted was regarding the laundry carts in which the soiled linen is both shipped to and from the sweatshop within, of which the cart washing machine doesn't dry the carts — so any carts which are dry within the clean cart zone have been moved from…