Antiwork

I have been working at five below as a sales associate for a short time, only eight days, but yesterday I said today would be my last day because it is shit. As I said, I have only been there eight days, but I have worked a total of 63 hours (not counting breaks), I am part time and a teenager who just wanted a summer job. I hadn’t worked before and I was so nervous on my first day because I have social anxiety and I was worried I wouldn’t know how to use the register. My manager rang two people up, then left me there by myself for the rest of my shift. Every time I didn’t know what to do I would have to call my manager to come help me and she would never explain she would just do it and say something passive aggressive. On…

I was a paid intern at a non profit last year – which was my first real work experience after college – and recently applied to a full time position there after working full time elsewhere (love it, it’s just not permanent!). For background, I have struggled with my mental health basically my whole life but am pretty high functioning. This was something that I confided in my supervisor, because it does affect me in the way I work. I don’t work poorly, I just require different tactics for working efficiently because of my ADHD. Since this was my first adult job, I admit that it took me a few months to get the swing of things with my issues but once I did figure out how to manage it I was rocking it! Fast forward to last week: I applied for the job and the interview was going great…

Ban the Box is a campaign that has successfully advocated for employers to remove the check box that asks if you have a criminal history, from job applications in 13 states. The idea is that, if it is hard for people with a criminal history to get a job, they are more likely to reoffend, and by not making people declare their convictions on applications, they have a chance to show their skills and value without the stigma, and are more likely to get a job. Over the last 7 months, I have applied for over 100 state jobs (and at least that many private sector jobs), interviewed for at least half of those, had second and third Interviews for 33, and was officially offered and I accepted, a number of different positions with the state of Oregon, and local city government. The interview process is extensive but I had…

I applied to a huge opportunity in my field recently. It wasn't a full-time, 40 hour a week job, but that's okay because I work freelance anyways. They told me the position was filled internally a week before it was even posted online. Why is this legal? It's fine that they filled the position internally, but why do that and then a week later solicit applications that you're not even going to consider? It's a waste of not only the applicants' time, but the hiring manager's time. This isn't the first time I've applied to a job where a similar scenario played out, and from what I learned from that experience, apparently not only is it legal, it's legally obligated in some cases. Why?

I started working as a Store Manager for a National Bedding chain earlier this year. Things have been going well. Love the product. Coworkers are great. Even my boss is decent. Paid salary, commission and bonus potential. Came out to find yesterday that SMs salary is determined by store volume. Not surprising, but new info to me. Well, it turns out the store I'm running has fallen below the threshold, for the salary I was hired at, and now I'm looking at a decrease of ~$10,000. No real warning and goes into place next month. Was really hoping to stay here, but it doesn't seem possible now. Just pissed!!

I was texting my sister, who still lives at home. We have an aunt/uncle that she's very close to, and that aunt/uncle decided to start breeding dogs for sale. I have my own thoughts about that in and of itself, but that's a separate conversation. The aunt/uncle both work during the day, and since it's summer they asked my sister if she'd be willing to help take care of the dogs during the day. She said sure, because she's a bit of a people pleaser and likes dogs anyways. She goes over there every weekday sometime between 9 and 10, and usually stays until about 3, so she's there for 5-6 hours per day. And it turns out that they're paying her… a whopping $50 per week. That's right, not per day, per week. That's $2 per fucking hour, and is so low that they might as well not pay…

Hi all, I just put in my notice that ill be leaving in July next month. I planned on using the rest of my vacation time and my personal holiday time in between then to move into my new apartment and to go see my girlfriend. But now my work is telling me that since I accrue the hours throughout the year, that I’ve used more than what I’ll have accrued until July. They say I’m actually in the hole for 19 hours of vacation since I’m not staying on until the end of the year. Is this legal? I feel like it’s at the very least wrong because I can take all the hours at the very beginning of the year.

I will be watching Netflix, studying for a notary public exam and taking lots of walks