Antiwork

I've been pestering the HR at my previous job to work out if and when I can get my 10 years long service leave. It took them 3 months to just respond to my emails and to “look into it”. They told me I was eligible a few years ago but I wasnt informed. Is this my responsibility to work out exactly how long I've been employed and when I can take my leave/get a payout? It looks like it may take ANOTHER 3 months to find out how much I'm entitled to as they aren't answering my emails again…

I hear so many people leaving their current jobs due to toxic work conditions. What would be a definition for it?

And bloody pennies. The money people in tech field is insane fucking insane. My Profession as requires in NY two years education requirements state testing, Observation, student teaching and E-profolio which which product of two year of work on top of a senior thesis in your subject matter. Then need to get your masters in five years if not your boot out of the profession. Then you're going into an over work job market that can fuck you any time if Admin doesn't like you. Just to make enough to live in closet in the city. They take advantage of you giving shit. Where tech bro can move around like breeze and makr high six figure more then bloody medical professional….What do they offer society apps, keep the Corps in control and in power?

Backstory: I’m a mechanical engineer and I work 100% travel installing and overseeing install of robotics machines at customer sites. I travel to the job site at the beginning of the week, and then I return home at the end of the week. I am also full-time and I’m fairly certain I’m exempt from overtime. Over the last 6 months, and due to a multitude of reasons, many of the employees in my position have left the company, and we’ve hired contractors (hourly) to fill their positions. Also in that time, our projects have shifted entirely to the east coast. I’m currently the only employee located on the west coast, so this makes getting to the job site very time consuming. I recently found out that someone at my company complained to my HR department about my travel situation, as I’ve been flying in on Mondays and leaving on Fridays.…

I had this idea that I shared with some production bosses 3 weeks ago about cross training and having back up people for production positions just in case someone was late, sick, etc. A week later a boss who works under these bosses ups and quits forcing one of the day bosses, one of them I talked to, to come in and cover the guy who up and left. None of them brought up the conversation I had with them. Kinda feels satisfying. Am I wrong to think this way?

-Coworker was killed (possible suicide) and decided that locking his account was more important than letting everyone know. -Manager emailed me to complain about my two weeks vacation request put in 3 months ago and if I can wait another 6 months

My birthday is this weekend and I don’t want to work that day. I have a part time job that’s only a few weekends a month and usually my boss asks me what weekends I want to work at the beginning of the month. I had been planning to ask for my birthday off so I could actually have it off for this year and do something fun. But she didn’t ask me this month and scheduled me on my birthday. I really want to call in that morning, but I’m feeling guilty now because several of the employees got Covid this week and we don’t have a ton of employees. However this is a small place and typically only 1 or 2 people are scheduled a day. So my coworker would probably be fine? I don’t know. Should I call in or suck it up and go into work?…