Antiwork

Since WWII, Healthcare has been tied to employers and the standard waiting period if 90 days makes it so difficult for employees to move to new jobs. Why wouldn't corporate America fight against legislation that would immediately allow free career movement for the entire population? How many times have you heard “I can't afford to quit”? It would be so much easier to ditch your shit employer if you had continuing insurance coverage that didn't cost you a whole month's salary (Cobra). Imagine how big the great resignation would be if everyone were free from the Healthcare chokehold of corporate America.

So I have a doozy. I work for a celebrity news site and get paid a flat rate per article and a set amount of revenue per article. This month, HR admitted to me in an email (but just me because we're friends) that there was a tech glitch that resulted in my and everyone's revenue was over 50% less than it should be. I asked what was going to be done and she said she'd talk to the boss. Well, she talked to the boss and he doesn't want to compensate anyone for the lost revenue and he told her not to tell anyone about the tech glitch (a little too late for that lol). He also said that I shouldn't be complaining that my paycheck was “a little” short this month because it wasn't that much money (I wrote like double the articles so flat article rate was…

I finally managed to pick up a job driving a forklift I'm September. Prior to that I was laid off at the start of the Pandemic and remained on unemployment while searching for work. I felt like I actually found a pretty decent gig doing something I enjoyed(I have driven industrial vehicles for the past decade alongside a few heavier pieces of equipment). I made good with the team and was finally getting into the groove of my day to day. Today I go in, after having called in for a personal matter yesterday, to be told that I was being moved to another position. I asked my team lead the reasoning and was told it was because of my prior experience but upon talking to the team lead of that area I was told it was punishment for not being there a lot lately (all excused, discussed with my…

Were all done with how shit the owners treat not only us but especially the manager. For less than £1/h over minumum wage and a 0-hour contract with a rota that she makes and owner 1 undermimes, she receives angry customer complaints and owner 2 screaming at her to fix the angry customer complaints. Yay! So now there is a pretty hefty list of people who are planning to leave, including the manager, our only two full-timers (outside of the manager) and three part-timers (including me). This will leave them with one person who can only work 11am-2pm monday-friday and one person who only works on sundays. And they'll have two weeks to hire an entire new team of staff and get them trained up otherwise both of the owners AND the area manager will have to travel to the shop which takes almost an hour one-way. This is gonna…

Think about, you're surrounded by people who don't really care about you the way your family does, and your employer certainly doesn't care about your problems unless they interfere with your work and then you're fired. Yet we exhaust so much effort at the work place. This is some kind of hell I never thought could exist

Hating every waking second of the job. The manager is half ass, my Co-workers are half ass. I don’t see why I should try so hard. I’m making the same pay as the guy next to me who shows up late everyday, doesn’t give a fuck, no call no shows. How is that motivating for me? Fuck this place. This whole job is just people being salty 24/7. Salty Someone leaves early, salty someone is off today. Salty I get the same pay. I’m on drugs every day to cope with it. I dropped out of college. I am fucked in life. Absolutely fucked. This is a total shitpost. My apologies