Antiwork

I have a coworker who works two jobs at around 60-70 hours a week, we work together at a joint gas station restaurant. Today was the fourth of July, one of the busiest days of the summer for this small-town convenience store. My friend had given me a heads up the night before that, thanks to some medical complications, they wouldn't be coming in. I told them that it was cool, I've closed the store on my own before and I wanted them to ultimately be okay. For further clarification, that night they had left work early to go to the emergency room because they believed they had appendicitis. Along with general pain from hitting a deer. They are doing okay! But what actually came up is something semi-private that I will just say is debilitating enough to call in. So today, the coworker came in to fill in for…

I had an internship at this software company as an Inside Sales Representative. First two weeks where really rough, had to work 11 hours a day, read through hundreds of whitepapers to get to know the product ect. After those two weeks I got my papers to work there, it stated I had to work 40h a week, I talked to my supervisor about it on my first day and we got into a minor argument right before the weekend. In the end he told me I would need to work abot 50-54h a week for 1,7k after taxes with no OT (they told me it would rise since I get extra money for commissions, but only after 3-6 months at the company). Monday comes around and I was scheduled in a meeting with management and HR, I didnt thought about getting fired for any second, since they told me…

I understand generally you shouldn't name drop companies, but FUCK Kroger. My store's hiring manager got me in trouble with our store manager because I have repeatedly refused to wear an apron as I have chronic back pain. She refused to acknowledge my pain and said “well, it's part of your uniform, you have to!” I just told her no. After I got off, my store manager told me that tomorrow, we were gonna sit down and have a talk with my union rep about my “rudeness and behavioral issues.” So, evidently, Kroger cares more about appearances than the wellbeing of their employees, who would've guessed. Now I might get fired soon as I've had issues with management in the past. Over a stupid ass apron that half the staff don't wear anyways. I hate my job so much. Moral of the story, never work for Kroger, don't shop there…

I always see these posts about text messages and/or emails from employers trying to enforce illegal rules, discriminating… then the person asks “what should I do?” And everyone chimes in with “oh boy…your lawyer will have a field day with this one” “Forward the email to the department of labor” “you just won the lottery with this one” For real, does anything ever come out of any of this? Do people actually ever do anything with these emails and texts and take the company to court? Because I never come across any follow up posts about how the company got fucked. I have a feeling people simply move on, do nothing and keep getting screwed thus perpetuating this cycle of nothing being done and companies and bosses doing literally anything they want with us. If I'm wrong and there are some success stories out there, please let me know I…

So, I'm a little bit of a job hopper– and I was wondering, if I lie, for instance, about the lengths of the jobs that I've had, how easy is it for the (potential) employer to find out about it? Do background checks check that kind of thing? Have you guys done this before?