Antiwork

This happened 3 years ago, but the topic came up today, so here I am. I was working for a short-staffed nonprofit in the Twin Cities, so I was doing 3 jobs instead of the normal 2 jobs. Literally had a nervous breakdown from stress and had to check myself into the local psych ward. Spent about a week there, came home, took another couple of days to manage, and went back to work. Was back about 2 weeks and doing okay when my boss asked me to discuss something in her office. She told me she needed me to take on some additional tasks because someone else had quit. I responded that I didn’t have the bandwidth to do so, and she did know I’d been under psychiatric care the previous month, right? “Yes, but that was your vacation time and you’re better now, right?” I quit two months…

TL;DR: You cannot pay low wages AND set high expectations. That’s now how any of this works. I’m so very much over frustrating employers that can’t be bothered to even look at an employee that’s performing to standards and beyond. It’s time to end responding to the diligent workers that go above and beyond with a “meh.” It’s infuriating, because these same employers will jump down their employee’s throats just for performing at 100% instead of 110%. Sure, you do all your assigned tasks, you even pick up other tasks when yours are finished, and even go as far as picking up extra shifts, but since you forgot to ask that one customer if they had a rewards card, you’re going to be pulled aside for a stern lecture, issued a warning, and your performance will be closely watched indefinitely just to make sure you learned your lesson. That’s just…

Retail pharmacists and technicians are trying to start the process of forming a union, but are semi-short on initial funding. What are good resources or recommendations for helping progress that cause? Here is a link to the Go Fund Me (https://gofund.me/a6b52a49) and the initial organizer runs The Accidental Pharmacist on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/Accpharm) Any suggestions would be super appreciated.

I've seen mention of this idea but never have I come across it happening. It's something I'm considering but not sure if others have done it?

I've been fiddling with calculating the financial burden of inflation and stagnant wages. Here's a sobering fact: The median home price in 1980, when adjusted for inflation, would be about $162,000 today. The median home price today is expected to reach $384,000. That's more than twice the financial burden.

So I have been working for my company for 9 years. It is a HUGE banking corporation here in the states. Well last year they opened a new site in another state, so naturally we all became a little nervous about possible layoffs, but our managers assured us that we are the only department in the country that does the task we do. That it would takes years to learn these skills. So of course we all go on with our lives, I had a baby, was gone half the year because of maternity leave, so I was out of the loop for a lot of things. Well fast forward to January of this year, and we got the notice that we are all being laid off! To say I was shocked is an understatement. I had just closed on my home the month before, my baby was less than…

As the title says, I got written up for “abusing downtime” or, as it was phrased to me, “spending a lot of time in the back when it’s not busy at all and taking pictures of the cats.” I am a bartender and server at a brewery that has cats; I am a very lonely guy who loves cats and they calm me down when I’m stressed. Other coworkers spend their downtime on their phones around what we call the “staff table” in one of the rooms in the restaurant. Managers spend a lot of downtime (on the clock) there on their phones, drinking sodas, and chatting with staff who are drinking and off the clock. There is a very prevalent clique there that I am not a part of but it includes management. They all hang out after work and go out drinking together. I see people slacking off…

I don’t know about you, but where I’m from (Southeast Asia), most companies will state in their contracts that if your family members passed, you’d have only 3 days of “compassionate leave” to mourn, and 1 day if they’re your grandparents. Recently I went for a job interview and I read through the contract, where the boss even elaborated and in my head i’m thinking to myself, this can’t be serious? How do these people who’ve worked for decades, just simply go back to work? Losing a loved one is just too much Literally what the fuck is this logic? How do you expect ANY human being to come back to work 3 days later and act like everything is fine? I’m not even joking, if that ever happened to me, I’d just leave my job and never return. Fuck that.

I work in a gasstation and my coworker called off today. Meaning I have to work by myself from 5-11:30 by myself. I don't get breaks I don't do my fucking job. Everyone's always complaining I'm lazy and do nothing, so I'm going to really show them what doing nothing looks like. I'm not worried at all about being fired (they hate giving out unemployment) I would honestly probably be happy about it.