Category: Antiwork

I’m lucky I didn’t get fired. But, if the company owners hadn’t sent out an email that can be summarized as “maybe we’ll pay you today, maybe we won’t”, I wouldn’t be looking for a new job at all.

We have an apprentice who honestly has not been that good, and despite additional support (referral to support programmes, being an assistant instead of alone even after 12 months) and we have decided not to keep him on once the apprenticeship ends. They are not the only person not being offered full time position but they are the only person this year we have offered no work to including the opportunity to freelance. We gave them 4 weeks notice because telling them on their last day would be shitty. But it's still shitty cos now he's got 4 weeks in a place where he knows management don't want to keep him. How do we as staff around him help? (For clarity I used WE to mean the company I work for, I'm not involved in hiring decisions.)

We had an issue at work where another department was strong arming and pushing our department to do what they wanted for a program. I’m a cross functional program manager representing my dept, and as such, it’s my job to ensure that our dept provides reasonable timelines and that our requests and needs are met prior to our depts involvement. Someone who has been at the org longer than I (but is beneath me in the org rankings) took it upon themselves to provide a timeline and corner cutting ways that our dept can go faster to the outside dept (ie. Overpromising and setting ourselves up to under deliver). I asked my boss (2 steps above the employee who is project managing), if he could help me close the floodgates, because our stakeholders now want what they don’t quite understand, and push out the expected delivery date. He said to…

I work for a small independent retail business (means they can get away with a lot under the “Companies with less than 15 employees” labor law exceptions) in a major US city and I essentially run the social media for pennies on the dollar on top of my regular retail shift lead duties. I was denied a raise I was promised (verbally, a mistake I will not make again) back in July when I began social media training. Two weeks ago, my manager (the owner of the business makes her play telephone because he knows staff won’t blame her, as the messenger) informed me that I wouldn’t be getting a raise because A) I had gotten one in August when I took over social media (though I do not consider an increase of pay to reflect increase of responsibility to be the same thing as a raise) and B) I…

I’ve been at my current job for 2 years and I’ve been busting my ass to learn as much as I can! I average 50-55 hour work weeks and I have the highest metrics every week (no exaggeration). I am an operations 1 employee which is at the bottom but for the last year I’ve been doing operations 2 work which is the next role up. I am very good at my job and am a big source of help to the other employees. I was denied a promotion in September 2022 because I do my job too well and they didn’t have someone to replace me…The next promotion round is now, February and I’m finally getting promoted to operations 2, but with much less pay than the two operations 2 employees. I would like to add that I also helped trained the other two operations 2 employees when they…

So we have pvp piping that we take down and clean. If you don't take them down a certain way, it's impossible to put back up. My boss just started taking them apart, and I advised him not to do it that way because it will be ten times harder to get back together. What does he tell me? “Yeah, just tell me what to do.” Guys, he sounded like an upset teenager, but I guess his plan was to just put it together in his own way? He was being pissy and aggressive after that, so I told him he was being aggressive. It made me super uncomfortable, so I emailed hr and asked for a transfer, because this isn't the first instance of this and I just saw a storm coming and wanted to get out. Sometime later, he changes his mind. Now it's my job to put…

Incoming long rant: It’s the “anymore” part that gets me because nobody has ever wanted to work. My dad says it all the time which is so ironic considering we’re black Americans. Does he not know why slavery exists? I know Atlantic slave trade is more complex than the colonizers not wanting to work but this country was built on free labor that they didn’t want to do. I’m not saying what we’re going through today (at least not within the states, maybe at the sweatshops overseas) is slavery but i will say most work is modeled after slavery. We’re expected to work our asses off to make our higher ups richer while we barely get our basic needs met. Most workplaces are toxic because everyone’s miserable and playing work politics to make more money to survive. Everyone’s miserable because we’re all in survival mode. So many people are one…

Was struggling and I needed to leave my old job for something that paid more. Landed a 9-5 wfh receptionist job and I'm thankful I found it when I needed but I'm already so drained … it's insane. So I'm wondering if I'd actually have any luck finding a wfh, full time job with less demanding workload? What should I look for ?