Antiwork

I have to spend two hours from home to work in the morning and with the same amount of time travel from work back to home in the evening.

Not sure if this is appropriate for this sub, but thought I’d share anyway. I’m a teacher, and Tuesday, students are taking the ACT’s. This means there are no classes taking place. Each teacher was assigned to a one hour shift to help out. Mine is from 11-12. I am all for all of us helping out, but I assumed that all of us teachers would only need to be there for our assigned hour shift. But administration just sent out an email saying “All teachers are required to be present at school for your contracted hours of 7:45am to 3:45pm while testing is taking place.” So….basically all of us poor teachers will have to sit around in our classrooms waiting for our shift, or go back to our classrooms after our shift is over to do nothing when they could have easily let us go home or come in…

Posting here to rant about a previous job I left about 2 years ago. Looking back, I’m flabbergasted by my old supervisor’s behavior and the complete lack of organization on the team I was on. I was on the team for 6 months before quitting. I worked for a small finance company and accepted the position because I was told work/life balance was big for them and everything else checked out. Unfortunately at the time I didn’t know this meant the exact opposite, because they lied about almost everything. I was “trained” for about a day before my supervisor left for work travel and I was left to fend for myself and was only person on my team in the office, only a day into the job. I was messaging everyone on my team who were located in other states for work to do over the course of the next…

I feel like too often I’m seeing people muse about quitting a job and getting a new work from home position that pays 150k a year and has full unlimited sick time. Like, not to belittle other peoples problems but it’s worth saying that actual working class people are trying to organize so we don’t have to grind our joints into dust to subsist off of poverty wages. I spent Christmas with my lights off. I spent my last two dollars on a candle. You know how badly I wanna kick my feet up and tell you all from my laptop that my new job pays me enough to buy a house? I wanted to pretty badly. At a certain point, some of these posts are just bragging about a new job and cluttering actual discussion about organizing. Does anybody else feel the same way? It’s so hard to sympathize…

I hate when my boss wants to do a video call for no reason except to talk at me for an hour. I'm supposed to give him a rundown of everything I've done each day and one project wasn't getting done fast enough so he told me I needed to pick up the pace. And I was like….no sir I cannot do that. And he was like oh don't think I'm upset with you!! It's my fault!! Let's call on Monday. And I have been dreading talking to him about it because it's just like…let me do my work and finish it. I don't need a babysitter, I know what I'm doing most of the time and if I don't, I'll ask….just so annoyed and anxious.

I swear on all that is holy, if I see one more post about someone asking nicely for their back pay instead of contacting the labor board and potentially getting treble damages I'm spamming the fucking labor board link in every thread. That's it. That's the post.