Antiwork

So my company(courier service in Chicago) is saying full time technically starts at 30 hours and no employee is allowed to work 40? There was no notice. Is this legal? (I mean probably but I’m curious)

I would like to hear all of your thoughts.

First off, yes I understand there are many evils in the oil and gas industry and while I’d agree with you, that’s not the point of this post. Companies want to end work from home for (insert BS reasons). Since the age of satellites and the internet, it has never been a problem for the oil and gas industry to work remotely. Day after day, across multiple states and time zones, multi-million dollar projects are being completed successfully without the worker and supervisor ever seeing each other. Personally, I’ve only ever seen my boss once in the past six months and he’s working from his house, sometimes poolside. It’s generally expected, unless you’re new, that you can accomplish your duties without supervision. If an industry that requires little more than a high school education can accomplish remote work successfully, there’s no reason your office can’t do the same.

I recently found out that my manager can’t in fact stop me from going to the bathroom as of yesterday. What are some other tips or advice you know for new employees?

Fuck my personal life I guess. I get burnt out from 5 days. How the heck am I going to do 10? OT sounds nice but time and a half is only $22.5 for me. What bothers me the most is my vacation getting denied. I requested 5 days off to see my parents and celebrate Cambodian New Years with them next week. I let them know 2 months ahead of time. Guess I won’t be celebrating with them this year.

At my job that I’ve been at for a year, never called off before. I take off two days off a month on the same weekdays using PTO. This month they have caught on to what I usually do and they requested off on the days I usually take/combine with. Asked my supervisor for multiple days and she says that aren’t available. So I plan on just calling off on the day I originally wanted. Problem is that when I plan to call in she has off that day, what do I do? Could I get written up since they know I wouldn’t be out for a legitimate reason? And we have been talking about it recently so it’s pretty obvious that I just want off. edit: never was denied/discussed the actual day I wanted. I was just informally told that I can’t do the days I’ve been trying surrounding…

So to be fair, I have missed a bit of time in the office this past week. I had to leave early for a biopsy last week, just after lunch. The following day, I was working from home because I felt like crap from that and was coming down with a cold. Yesterday, I came down with a stomach virus. I was still at work, but honestly, I was miserable and spent most of the day in agony, barely working. My doctor sent me to the hospital when I left a voicemail to see if they could prescribe anything for pain/nausea. ​ Today, I decided to just stay home because there was less pain but more *bathroom* time. I let my team know and told them that I would check in occasionally, but wouldn't be available all day. This is very much a sick day, not a work from home…

To start, we work at a small marketing firm doing a very specific type of marketing. We as a team are incredibly close knit and I really adore the people I work with. Essentially, we work in a section of marketing that’s very specific in what we do. I don’t want to get too detailed. We definitely have competitors, but since what we do is sort of new, there’s a trial and error, learn to streamline part of the process. Our boss is very hard to read. He’s always been cool headed and kind, not aggressive or rude or demanding, but very, very hard to READ. I get nervous around people like that—you cannot tell if they mean what they say, what their real motives are, what they actually are feeling because there’s a facade of calm. I’m not sure if it’s a facade or if he’s that flat. It’s…

I've seen a few emails and texts individuals have recived after quiting their jobs. I would like to offer this up for everyone to evaluate as a possibility. “I am no longer employed by you. If you continue to contact me, you are agreeing to pay my consulting fee. Any further comunications, or questions regarding this fee will be considered billable hours.” Or something similar to this. The idea being, you keep wasting my time, I'm billing you for that time. If they contact you, then you write up an invoice for a few hundred dollars, and you send that invoice to proper channels. If you haven't heard back from, you send the invoice to their management. Maybe threaten to take them to small claims court over their lack of paying. I'm not 100% sure if that would work, but it might be fun to try.

I specified with the manager and the interviewer before starting this job that only “very occasionally” I could join after 5pm. 3 times per week don't sound like that. What would you do?