Antiwork

I’m currently employed in a smoke shop in a small part of town. Most of the time, the shop is completely dead. Two hours will go by before a customer crawls through. In downtime, we wipe down glass, sweep, reorganize, mostly busywork. Between that we have not much else to do. Myself and another employee are both art students, I’m pursuing a masters degree so I can teach in the future. Her and I use scraps from orders or receipt paper to doodle, she draws anime girls and I drew a cartoon pig. Our boss came into work, saw our small, low-effort drawings, and scoffed, scolding us because “that’s not what we’re paid to do.” Frankly, if we weren’t doodling, we were playing on our phones or reading something anyway. It’s too quiet and slow here to constantly be working, and there’s no fresh paint to watch dry anyway. Anyway.…

I started a job 3 months ago that I haven’t liked at all. They promised me the Earth like remote working, which never transpired. I’m needing to do expensive daily commute. My boss just…sucks. He’s passive aggressive, micromanaging and non empathetic. The job is ridiculously convoluted and boring and needlessly complicated. I had to beg to be allowed to go for a simple blood test. I wasn’t allowed to go to appointments for my youngest child who is disabled even after giving 2 weeks notice. But the woman I work under can disappear several times a week, no questions asked. My uncle died suddenly and they begrudgingly gave me the day off for the funeral but insisted I fly back for work the next day so had to come back in the small hours. Two weeks ago my father had a heart attack and fell down the stairs. He caught…

I work for a rather large organization who does an annual survey on employee engagement to gather feedback about supervisors, management, the organization and policies. The survey is allegedly anonymous, yet somehow they (HR and leadership) seem to know who has and hasn’t completed the survey. The whole thing is absurd and nothing ever comes from the results. At best managers spend significant time trying to identify who writes what comments and then blaming that individual for their negativity. At worse teams are labeled complainers who need a culture change. Today, our state level leadership told us in a meeting told us that they would really appreciate us completing the survey. As a “incentive,” leadership told us that if 100% of employees filled out the survey, they would throw each one of our offices a pizza party and we would all login to a conference call and talk about how…

I work at an LGBTQ+ homeles shelter. My backround is as a teacher with a sociology degree. I took this job out of necessity but ended up loving all the people there. For months I built a rapport with my guests and we bonded with me being almost a mother to them. Unfortunately as much as we love each other, I always had problems with my boss. He is tone deaf and self absorbed and drove the first 6 original staff members to quit because of his attitide. I was the only one left. I went above and beyond for my guests and they knew it and reciprocated in kind. I finally had enough of Ty, my boss because he finally recognized me by offering me what I thought was a raise and a promotion. I found out later that the “raise” was just to even out my pay with…

In her words, she finds it odd that “the current generation” switched jobs so often – not because of her still believing in company loyalty or whatever but rather because she thinks people should put into consideration how much they enjoy what they’re doing over how much they’re getting paid. I don’t know how to explain more plainly that people wouldn’t feel the need to switch jobs if they were happy where they were and that money plays a crucial role in that, nor can I find a way to explain that in our global economy “focusing on the price tag” is just a facet of living normally?? That making a living wage tends to be the prerequisite to job satisfaction??? That people working several jobs and failing to make ends meet don’t have the privilege of deciding whether or not Amazon makes their insides glow???????? Additional information: she grew…

Specifically North York, Ontario location. I am so disgusted by what I heard. My partner and I went for dinner and when the bill came, there was a surprise 13% service charge. I asked the waiter if it was a gratuity tip. He said no. He said the owners take all their tips. I asked him how much he makes working there and he said $15.00 an hour. Under minimum wage in Ontario plus the owners take the tips? I asked where the service charge goes and he said the owner. He said the owner complained about the amount of tips they STEAL from the servers so they tacked on this charge. I feel disgusted that I paid money to these owners that think they can get away with this. I really hope the employees there can find something better. I am pleading with anyone in the area to never…

Unless you need to physically be present for some reason, an office is an outdated concept. We can do the same work at home