Antiwork

I work in retail management and am no stranger to working on holidays. My store manager is a mom and has the day off and I’m the manager working that day since I live pretty far from home and planned to visit back home on my next day off. Next week the companies CEO will be visiting the district so the entire district is rushing to get stores looking perfect. Sounds about right for a visit as big as this. The kicker is they are expecting all store managers to help out around the district Sunday-Tuesday driving anywhere from an hour to three hours away from home every day. It doesn’t help that they all found out yesterday and it was stressed that this is an extremely important visit and helping out is “absolutely mandatory.” I’m just blown away by all of this. Like I’ve said, I’m not new to…

Hope this a good sub for this: I work at a Virginia state agency. Today we heard that the Glen Younkin administration will be eliminating all telework for state employees. We have been 100% work from home since the beginning of 2019, at my agency at least. I'm completely disheartened and disgusted by this. We'll all be taking a pay cut essentially to commute in each day. We'll all be losing time we aren't compensated for. In my case it will be an hour a day at least in travel there and back. I'm sure some folks will lose even more time. At a time when gas is at an all time high. I'll personally be less motivated, less productive, more unhappy, spend more time in traffic for no reason, and most importantly I'll get even less time with my kids. And for what? So the new governor can throw…

I was complaining to my dad that i wasnt making near enough at my job ($16 an hour) so he asked me how much I think my job is worth. I told him for the skill and hard labor I do it should be about $35 an hour. He couldn't believe I thought I should be making that much. He basically implied my job isnt worth that much. But I guess im the delusional one for valuing my own worth, and for thinking even bare minimum jobs should pay atleast $20 an hour. For the record my dad is almost 70 and retired. Edit: posted with title only lul

I was so happy with this new job. I was in unsafe conditions where they failed to contain a large scale covid outbreak in a crammed building. Although I always wore a mask, I got covid from work. I called in sick immediately when I had symptoms. I was in total isolation the entire time I was down, and it was hell. I can proudly say I did not go in while sick, and I isolated from my partner and didn't give it to him. I missed 8 days of work total because I still had symptoms for 3 extra days. I came back as soon as possible, powering through my body still needing rest. I was fired my 2nd day back. I was told by my boss (who never was involved in training me or what I did on a daily basis) that I was not where I needed…

My boomer coworker (a social worker no less) has told the same Cinco de Mayo joke about 5 times today. Something to do with the Titanic and mayonnaise. She’s so cringe. I’ve seen her ask two different Black women to touch their hair. She regularly pretends to be intellectually disabled and limps around acting like her arms are disabled and talking incoherently. Once, a group of us social worker’s we’re talking about harm reduction program’s and she chimed in that she doesn’t believe in them because they are “socialism.” When I pointed out that she is a Social Worker who daily works under principles of socialism she Yelled, “I am a Christian and it’s my job to bring these people to Jesus!” Lady, it literally is not!!!!!! We both got called to the supervisor over that one. This is why I want to work from home….