Antiwork

I’ve worked for my company nearly 20 years in a variety of roles. We’re medium sized with about 150 employees. A couple of years ago we were taken over by a plc and that’s when it all changed. It was never an amazing company to work for, but it’s really gone downhill since we were taken over. They’ve systematically been removing perks, we had a round of redundancies during Covid, and the rumour is there’s some more coming. Every week there are people giving notice. This week alone 3 people handed theirs in, and yesterday the finance director (a really good guy) was made redundant with no warning. Morale now is at an all time low. There’s not a lot of orders coming in, so I’m wondering if our parent company are just going to come in soon and shut us down. Thoughts? Thanks for the read!

I'm an introvert that works as a receptionist, but for the most part I make up for that by being friendly, helpful, organized, and being knowledgeable about certain programs the other receptionist has trouble using. I've been at this job for several months now without anyone coming to me about complaints on my work ethic. Well today my supervisor or and her boss had me come to their office and told me that they want me to be “bubbly” from now on, and then the next moment claimed they didn't want me to change my personality when what they said prior was contrary to that and then kept reiterating that “its important I be bubbly/ourgoing for the job” even though thats not who I am. I'm “expected” to excitedly say hi and bye to literally every freaking person like some cheerleader, even if it's just another employee minding their own…

This week, I was told by my boss that they'd be reducing my hours to 2 hours per day next term, down from 5. Or 2 days per week rather than a full 5 workdays. Which is, of course, not enough to afford food, let alone rent. Not my boss' fault; that's public education in Alberta for you. My school has a deficit of $200k compared to last year, and I'm expendable. So off I go to the want ads. And possibly eBay to sell my assorted Lego sets…

I busted my ass off for my company by volunteering for the more physically intensive jobs when they needed someone, which was very often. I stayed at this company for about a year. I recently learned of the fact that I was put under a “Low Performers” list and that infuriated the fuck out of me. I handed in my two weeks today. Fuck working hard for companies when not required – never again. I've learned my lesson.

I work at a clinic and my manger said today that nobody in the department has the balls to quit. She said we need this job because we are so young. I personally can’t wait for Monday to hand deliver my one week notice 🙂

????? That is such a dumb thing in ads! “So where is the bathroom… oh you have to train yourself and find it.” Even a job with the most crazy crazy education requirements and previous know how needs initial training. It is like they are saying that they are doing you a favour to get you to learn to do what they need you to do. So yeah you are being really nice to show me how to set the alarms. I am so grateful! “Look! we give you an amazing training in this thing that you need here, specific to this role and that will give you great advantages to leave us!” (Last may be good but… If there is a difficult and expensive training people may be attracted to, it should be listed specifically no just “Will Train”, every F job needs training) Rant done.

Randomly drug test me due to hear say bout me using pot on break? Tell me I need to conduct myself carefully when all the other co workers talk trash, speak about female co workers and whine about management?? Guess what you're short staffed tomorrow morning.

I submitted my two weeks today and was told to put the statement in writing . In the 10 minutes it took me to write it out I was called – disloyal – inconsiderate – ungrateful – disrespectful – unprofessional And I could go on . The sheer lack of professionalism from these people almost genuinely shocked me . I’ve worked for the company for a year and half, came in on my days off,worked overtime,covered shifts, and worked doubles for these people and they have the audacity to say these things about me . I’ve never been more happy to leave a company in my life .

I learned about the hard edge of capitalism many years ago when I worked for a large multinational corporation. This company would have been a Fortune 500 company except that it was a wholly owned subsidiary of an even larger corporation. Its headquarters was in Manhattan, and most of us peons who worked there commuted to work from all over New York and Long Island. Then one day the company announced that the headquarters would be moved to a town in New Jersey that none of us had ever heard of. We immediately wondered two things: 1) Why is this being done, and 2) How the Hell are we supposed to get to work? We quickly learned the answer to Question #1: two of the top three executives at the company lived in that New Jersey town, and they didn't like the commute into New York, and they were moving…