Antiwork

Had a job at Walmart for a week. $16.50/hour. It was great, that was becoming the norm because everyone else was hiring around that rate. Got sick during my 90 so they fired me, whatever. Went back to a grocery store I worked at years ago that used to pay $3 over minimum wage starting just as a rule. Minimum wage in my state is $12.50 so I was expecting $15. Nope, I’m being paid $12.75/hour with two years of experience in my section. I don’t mind the work but near minimum wage with inflation is a no go. Everyone there is complaining no one wants to work and they can’t keep employees when a job is a job and you take what you can get. I’ve got two kids and student loans. Houses where I live cost half a million dollars and food/gas prices keep going up. I shouldn’t…

I put in my 2 weeks on Thursday, same story as most, not enough employees, low pay, the place is chaos on a daily basis, Gm and owner are idiots who micromanage the dumbest things while ignoring the important things. Owners children are regularly on site causing chaos running around a manufacturing environment. The Gm was shocked but polite when I put my 2 weeks in, owner not so much has completely ignored my presence since. Hasn’t even acknowledged that I’m leaving. They are a small company, 11 employees, I’m friends with a couple of them outside of work and have been for years. I don’t want to screw them over by not going back but I dunno if I can take another week and a half there. If I don’t go in tomorrow there is literally no one else who knows how to do my job, the Gm doesn’t…

We aren’t allowed to eat or drink water while working. For context: I’m a shopper so basically I get customers groceries for them. I never heard of something like this and it didn’t make sense because I would always see managers and upper management walking around with coffee. Over time people complained about it so they had everyone sign a paper agreeing to it We don’t have the tools to do our job effectively. We use these small scanning devices to check off items in orders. In my department we have maybe 3 that work and even those have their problems (random reboot, connection issues, or simply won’t charge). We let higher ups know and they refuse to do anything about it because the devices are “too expensive” (allegedly $3000). Also we’re lack enough of them. There have been a good amount of days in which I come into work…