Antiwork

Throwaway account because I was dumb enough to interact with a coworker via my main account (trust me, I don’t need to be lectured on how stupid that was). I worked for 2 years in a large corporate grocery store chain for just above minimum wage, because I was told by people I once loved that it was “more than enough to get by on if I managed my money properly.” Anyways, I finally quit last month in order to preserve my mental health and take some time for myself (as expected, management cried and begged for me to stay without offering any tangible monetary incentive to do so). Today, I walked back into the store, straight back to the electronics section (where I worked) and told the employee working there that I’d like to purchase an iPad (I didn’t know the guy from my tenure of working there). He…

I worked at a manufacturing company for six months. They conduct random drug tests on employees. On Thursday, I received my first random drug test and was terrified since I knew I'd probably test positive for THC due to my daily use of CBD oil, which I love to put in my coffee. Surely enough, my job called me this morning and told me not to return to work for failing the drug test. Even though I explained to them that I use CBD for my Generalized Anxiety Disorder and don't smoke any marijuana, they still let me go. CBD was the only thing that helped me survive that shitty job and improved so many aspects of my life. FUCK CORPORATE AMERICA! Now I'm jobless and don't even qualify for unemployment for violating the company's “drug policy” lol. Thankfully, I have enough money saved up for my remaining bills this…

I am asking this naive question from BOTH perspectives (employer and employee). How do you determine when it is too much? Is it always subjective? Does it make a difference if the rules of control & check-in are written down? What is your personal honest experience on this topic? Thank you

I'm looking for some advice. I stepped down from being a full time manager to a part time supervisor with my company back in January. I felt that this was a better move for me because the hours were long and the upper management was very difficult to work with. The part time schedule was far better for my work life balance. This was going pretty well until a few hours ago when the HR manager called me and told me she had some bad news for me. She said that the job offer I had initially signed showed my salary was incorrect. They said that the salary was over by about $10,000 annually and that I will need to sign a new offer to show the adjusted decrease and I would also need to pay back all the “extra” money I was paid since January. I was absolutely floored…

I’m 35 years old and I have been working since I was 17 years old. Being born as a second generation American from an immigrant family, I was instilled from an early age of the importance of academic and financial success. I studied hard in high school, got into university on a military scholarship, and served the military honorable for six years. After the military, I worked for a Fortune 500 company since then and have become a model employee who never complains, always volunteering to do the extra work when needed, and rarely called off as I will go to work even when I am not feeling well. Throughout all this time my physical and mental health has suffered due to stress and it got to the point where I questioned myself of what my purpose in life was. Was I going to keep doing this until I turn…

I work for a contractor for fedex. Boss schedules people to work on days and then right before clock in time he will tell you to go home. This is an every week thing. He schedules us to come in just in case it’s heavy and he needs us. Should we not get paid for this? We are essentially on call. Sometimes people drive over an hour to the terminal then get told to go home and get no pay. Georgia