Category: Antiwork

I recently started working in HR for a fantastic company. Hands down the best treatment I’ve seen for employees. It could quite possibly be the greatest position I’ll ever have. The salary, culture, environment, benefits and flexibility are top notch. They truly have the mindset of “happy employees equal happy customers.” I am very much an employee advocate in my role, one of the main reasons I went into the HR field. It took nine years to find a job where my ideals matched that of the company. But it happened. What’s disappointing is that this is considered progressive in the U.S. Luckily, the owner is from the Netherlands and treats his employees as such. I have never worked for a company that has put its employees wellbeing ahead of profits. Due to weather conditions coming through the Midwest, employees are asked to WFH or take personal days. I knew…

In a separate sub, a guy in Europe was talking about his experience working at a Vans shoe store. He mentioned he received full healthcare benefits and when they didn’t renew his contract, they continued paying him for 6 additional months. As an American, reading that blew my gd mind. There’s no way in hell anyone working at our Vans locations would receive a severance package let alone have a contract or guaranteed shifts. We need to be demanding these rights as workers ffs they’re the BARE MINIMUM.

Maybe it was a shitty question for me to ask out in the open in front of people. Public education uses a ton of high paid consultants to operate several corners from capital projects, to food service, to curriculum, etc. Anyway, I was frustrated because well, several projects have gone $500,000 to $1,000,000 over budget which impacts the rest of our budgeting, and ultimately students and teachers. This consultant probably makes 5-6x what I do and works 1/10th the time. He was upset that I asked and kept asking me what my experience is building a home, a building, renovating buildings, etc. to undercut my question. Thing is, at the end of the day, think he knew that he should have kept this high paid person on a tighter leash with their project management, but just couldn’t admit it to me in front of others. One of those days where…

I am absolutely sick of working for companies that have clearly incompetent leaders. They hire employees en masse with grand promises of work/life balance, great pay, great benefits, and a supportive and development focused culture. Months into the role, you get a clear picture that employees are not happy. They're overworked, underpaid, and walked all over by management. Bonuses/raises don't exist because of whatever excuse that year, and corporate strategy/policies are just completely fucked to the point any front line employee can confidently predict the negative outcomes. Despite all this, nothing happens to the executive leadership and all of the company problems are blamed on “underperforming employees”, who are then let go for missing unattainable goals. Those that survive the culling complain about being overworked as the company is now short staffed, but management deflects with “no one wants to work anymore”. This trend needs to fucking stop. Front line…