Antiwork

I work roughly 45-50 hours a week as a daycare assistant. It is just my boss and I. She runs a well established licensed home daycare in our town. I have been here 3 years and literally run the show while she cleans her house or goes in her room to “answer emails” aka nap. I make 11 an hour, I just feel like I'm being screwed.

We have to work from our tweenties to 65 with an low salary that wont alow us to do what we want and follow our dreams. Then obviously we have friends and get to start a family which is nice but you cant buy a house because the market is crazy and prices went up like crazy. Even 20% just last year. So you cant live on your own. Then other things are expensive aswell, like lumber and gas. Even food prices are going up. And we are just going to be okay with this? We are just going to accept how shitty the situation is. The fact that if you dont have wealthy parents or a good inheritence you cant move on with your life and move out at the ages between 20-25 without difficulties. And meanwhile you hear about how great everything was in the 80s and how…

For the blissfully unaware: the CCAT (or Cognitive Aptitude Assessment) is a bullshit “IQ” test companies try to get potential employees to take to prove they'll be a good fit for the job. It's a 50 question test that you're supposed to complete in 15 min (18 sec per question). It has questions like finish this complex pattern of shapes, solve this math problem from 8th grade, match this obscure word to its equally obscure synonym, find which of these strings of numbers has a perfect match out of 10 other strings of numbers… And worse There are all sorts of flaws in this test, obviously (being discriminatory against people with dyslexia, people whose first language isn't English, and people who didn't have traditional American education are the obvious ones), but it's also insulting. I haven't gotten an offer, I haven't spoken to anyone from the company, I don't even…

Performance Review Time here at work. I was hired about 5 months ago to help a company with a massive Collections portfolio. They have allowed many of their Customer accounts to have tons of claims and deductions and stay unresolved for years. Pricing claims, shortages, Allowances for advertising, etc….some of them from 2018 and 2019!!! This is considered to be very poor management in any Accounting company, as the aged portfolio is very bad. For example, if they wanted a loan from the bank, the bank would review their Receivables and see this aged bullshit and not loan to them. This is also called the DSO, or “Days Sales Outstanding”. DSO industry standard is normally 20% or less of total volume is aged. This company had accounts that were 65%, 75% and up to 85% volume is over 120 days old! They hired me and in less than 5 months…

I've been working at least 30 hours a week as a “casual employee” covering dozens of shifts since I started this job about two months ago. I am one of the few people who actually cleans the store as well. A few days ago I asked my manager if he could help me by moving my shift up by one hour so I could ensure I was on time for work after my monthly food bank appointment. He then asked me if I could take the appointment over Zoom while working. I explained to him essentially what a food bank is and his response was, “don't they deliver?” Yesterday I had an interview at another store in the same industry that was for a full time position at the same rate I'm paid now. Sincerely hope it goes through, fingers crossed. If I am hired I definitely will not be…