Antiwork

To start off I’ve been a long time lurker and usually don’t post. Yesterday I had a long and exhausting night as a server and want to call out tomorrow to recuperate myself mentally. I have what seems like good managers but they can always turn out to be two faced so I never take how nice they are too serious. I just wanted some suggestions on what good call out reasons there are that won’t lead to them asking questions after I give them the reason. Thanks for any suggestions! Will take me a while to answer to replies since I’m on my shift while posting this.

I’m asking out of curiosity since restrictions have been lifted now in Ontario. For those that work in the office, are you fully back in the office now or are you doing a hybrid work environment? Or are you lucky to have the option to be working remotely? I unfortunately am back in the office as hybrid but the company is expecting us to be back full-time eventually. I’m personally against it for many reasons but especially that we’re even more productive at home anyway so what’s the point. However, I can’t really justify my choice to HR since I’m still new to the company.

I have been working for a tech company for 1.5 yrs. The salary is fair and got offered equity (60k) that vests over 4 years. The working hrs are 10 to 7pm, but most times 7pm becomes 8,9 or even later depending on the time of the year (reporting period). Even though the flexibility of the schedule is promoted within the company, we are encouraged to start later next days and so on, my daily program gets kinda ruined and it affects my life. After the end of year personal evaluation i got a 10% pay increase which is not that bad but considering the inflation this year basically my salary is the same. Recently I've been looking around and got an offer that has a 40% increase and similar benefits and a 9 to 5 program which made me thinking. I had an initial talk with my manager but…

I have been working at this remote call center, I was a temp hired in October of 2020. As a temp I expected my wage to be low, but the company reached out to hire me directly in June of 2021. With that came a .50 cent raise and added responsibilities of helping other callers with escalated issues or training. I got another promotion to team lead, I would have to grade calls, assist in any projects. I also had to monitor 10 users to make sure they were meeting quotas and training more when needed. This came with another .50 cent raise. This makes my wage 15.00 an hour. Want to know what minimum wage is in my state as of January? 15.00 an hour. So despite multiple promotions I am making minimum wage. This means I am being paid the same as an entry level position. PLUS I…

Mind you, my 5' 5″ boss has the worst little man syndrome I've ever experienced. Along with him working at this company for 30 years. He thinks he knows everything and if anybody makes a mistake he belittles them until you are afraid to even ask questions which then causes more mistakes and more thrashing. Today has been the worst so far – I am on a sales call and he leaves with our GM on a Tuesday to go play Golf….be mindful that everyone else is still working and will be here till 5. We deal with Stainless Steel and he is in charge of SS Coils. I never deal with coils but he had to make sure our receiving manager told me that I should “stay out of his office” for the rest of the day. I never do shit in his office our would ever touch his…

I remember hearing a bunch of buzz words from executives awhile ago. I always thought most of them were meaningless. And for the most part, they are. There's one though, that's not, and that's synergize. When they talk about synergizing and synergies, you may think it means, “Oh, we should do more teamwork.” It's not that. It's very, very much not that. It means they're going to buy another business, and then fire positions that exist in both companies (such as firing half the PR staff or anything else that could be 'redundant'). Since they basically always do what the previous company did but with less staff, it's considered quick and easy profit. And they invented the word “Synergize” to say it, and usually surround it in a lot of other jargon, specifically so during public speaking they can tell investors what they're planning to do without tipping their hands…