Antiwork

TLDR: You have to do 2/5 days in the office. How would you space them to make it suck the least? Background: My department have been successfully working from home since 2020. I joined late 2021, moving from a customer facing position, so WFH was a blessing! But now that we’re apparently pretending that the pandemic is over we’re being asked to do 2 days minimum in the company owned office. There are team members who live at the other end of the country (UK), AFAIK they’re not being asked to do the same. My home setup is perfect. Lighting, ergonomics, temperature, all set to my needs. The office is loud, too hot/too cold, full of people, and the extra commute (though admittedly short) is becoming increasingly expensive with fuel costs. I’m not the roll out of bed 30 minutes before work kind of person. When WFM I’m up 2…

Posting before I get banned again If he's reading this sub, he'll know who I am, but what are the chances of that. It was a few years ago anyway. Dude was a psychopath. We had a few wage theft scandals in Australia, over the last few years, and his fast food takeout place was ground zero for one of the first. He was done over for tens of thousands of dollars for underpaying his staff, his delivery drivers etc. It was all over the papers and triggered a nationwide investigation into the chain. Mug me, needed a job, had plenty of experience working in the industry, so I started working there a few months after the scandal blew over. To be fair I didn't know it was the wage scandal store until after I accepted the job and started working there. Assistant manager, but really, assistant to the store…

Just wanted to share. I live in Scotland. During the last two years I have been a “key worker” within a social care setting in a caring roll. I like my job and though it can be challenging at times it makes me feel good about helping others. In Scotland our leader (First minister) pledged a £500 bonus to all frontline NHS and social care workers who had been put in danger by continuing to support the most vulnerable and sick members of our society during the pandemic. On the surface this sounds great, until you find out that it would be taxed! So £500 becomes about £380… no big deal. Its still extra money I tell myself. However, I would not even be entitled to that according to the powers that be. So my wife was an accounts assistant. Fresh from uni with her degree and ready to work.…

I applied to an internal position in my company. It was a lot more responsibilities and graded significantly higher than my current role. After a 5 month long grueling process during which the woman who was leaving even started her handover to me, they offered me the role. At the same grade, at the same salary. I politely asked a few times if it could be revised, and made a business case for it (experience, time in current role/grade, extent of role expansion etc) but to no avail. I rejected their offer and decided to stay in current role while I look for another job. Today I found out they're getting someone externally who has lesser experience than me (and obviously no experience of internal processes) at 1.5 times my pay and a higher grade. Why do companies do this?

Well, I just got fired because some HR lady (witch) got beef with me for A: not accepting that A manager commanded me to pick up my private phone to discuss covid information I already knew while I was driving home to go in quarantaine (my colleague had covid). I told him to be calm and I'll call him back in 10 minuten when I got home, as a reply I got 'no,now!'. As I am not a dog I will not accept this behaviour. We got a talk about it with HR, and for them the situation was done after the manager said that I didn't understand him correctly, which isn't the same as saying you're sorry. The second beef : B is because of a external screening company who started calling and mailing me 5x a day for the same documents that I already send them, after a…

I'm mostly here to learn about other folks' struggles and learn from them, but ended up with my own tale. I'm doing snow/ice clearing with trucks & loaders, and been with this company for the last two winters. For those unfamiliar, this means pushing snow from one spot to another spot that's more out of the way, or dropping an entire McDonald's worth of salt on the ground to melt snow & ice. The company itself is decent, mostly just the usual growing pains, bureaucracy, and occasional lack of communication you see everywhere, but that's a separate tragedy. Coincidentally, it's also very difficult to find and then retain reliable staff for snow clearing, but that's a separate tragedy. I started out with a ~30 minute commute, but I moved farther away for ReasonsTM. Was going to work for a closer company, but they offered a 10% raise and 25% higher…