Antiwork

Currently at work and I had to go on a quick rant. For the past week I have been trying to request my birthday off from may 26-may30th. I have a trip planned to Los Angeles, I already have everything booked since janurary of this year, before I even started working here.(Lowes) So every time I have tried to request it off, it wouldn’t allow me to do it because it’s during a “blackout” period. I didn’t know what that meant I thought it meant maybe it’s too early to request those days, but we are already in April so being too early to request shouldn’t be the problem, so I asked the manager who makes the schedules and she told me that because of Memorial Day which is on MAY 30th I cannot request may 27-29 because of MEMORIAL DAY. So that is what a blackout period is…you can’t…

I spend so much time setting up interviews, preparing for interviews, and carving out time from my full-time job. It is not uncommon to spend 4+ hours exclusively in meetings with HR, hiring managers, and potential team members during this process. In most cases, I'm having to take my PTO or make up time on the back end. I understand not getting a response from anyone if you didn't get to the 1st interview stage. Heck, most of the time I receive at least an automated rejection email even then. But what really bothers me is that after you've invested so much time into the interview process and HR cannot even offer up a brief message notifying you of the decision. I get that we're all leading very busy, hectic professional lives. That's even more reason to treat your candidates better than this. They are sacrificing so much of their…

I started working for a Financial Advisor for a popular financial planning company on January 10th. I am currently an “assistant” for this person. I took this role because in our discussions during interviews he informed me that this would be the stepping stone into becoming an FA (Financial Advisor) that I’ve been looking for. He said I wouldn’t have to make any cold calls, that my job would be to assist him in other ways of growing his business and in about a year/year-and-a-half I could then contend for the FA training program. The first month was a lot of training and doing tasks here and there but mostly learning the ropes of the business. Month 2 is when I started to realize who this guy really is. By this time it was clear that he wanted me to be a cold call machine. I would make hundreds of…

I wanna be mad….But it's $15/hr remote job setting appointments for a hotel, plus overtime pay past 6pm and $50 towards my internet bill. Does anybody have advice? I need the money bad, so if I can get the job I will have to take it, but is there anything to look out for? Warning signs / Red flags to watch out for? I haven't ever worked remotely besides freelance before.

i told two people and they said i was overreacting and he was just trying to get a rise out of me. am i wrong to be bothered by this “joke”?? he has “edgy” humor and is a known drunk like a few days ago called someone who had quit drinking a loser. im sure (i hope) he really was just joking but i dont feel like it’s appropriate especially to be like “you know what i mean? i just want to experience it see what its like thats my goal someday”

I work for a health-tech start-up that was acquired in September 2021 – This brought a high rate of turnover and general unrest from the folks at the start-up, and is a story for another day. I have been casually looking at different options regarding where I'd like my career to go – ideally, not in a corporate structure but I was keeping my options open. I did the typical LinkedIn searches, researching companies in the areas I would be interested in working for. I found a mental health health-tech start-up that stood out to me – so I applied for their Head of Customer Ops. role. I interviewed the company: First Interview – February 3rd – 1-hour remote interview with Head of HR Second Interview – February 15th – 1-hour remote interview with Head of Growth Ops. Third Interview – February 22nd -1-hour remote interview with Medical Director Fourth…

I'm a professional musician (not the famous kind, just the average work-a-day musician-for-hire type)I also teach private lessons. I have a bachelor's degree in music from a great school which cost a lot of money and time and sweat. I have been fortunate to have gigged, recorded, and toured with notable artists from across Canada and around the world. I taught music at every level, from middle and high school band, to college theory courses, and for years I taught upwards of 40 lessons per week at the country's largest music store. Last month at the beginning of March I took on a new student. A teenager who is quite pleasant to work with and also shows a great passion and aptitude for the guitar. I enjoy working with her immensely since not all students take such an active role in their learning. The problem is her father. A Doctor…

To preface this I live in California. I work inside Target, but not for Target. Well yesterday someone started a fire in the store about 20 feet from my general work area. It ended up getting pretty big, so big that the entire store was evacuated and when all the doors were open smoke was still pouring out. Firetrucks, ambulances, police vehicles were all there so surely the next day I imagined we wouldn't be working. I was wrong. I returned to work about an hour ago and the smell is very very prevalent and there's literal ash still on things. Now instantly I called my DM and said yeah I'm not working they're out of their mind. I told other workers to do the same. I doubt I'll get “written up” or something to that extent. I really couldn't fathom that they wouldn't close the store for ONE day…