Antiwork

Marking NSFW just in case, since it is kinda gross. I've been looking for a job for a while now, since my college plans fell through. I finally heard back from a nice hotel for their house keeping opening. My first day, they put me with a nice older lady who has been there for a while now. So we had to just simply “tidy up” some rooms towards the end of the shift, simple right? One of the rooms, occupied by two men, had piles upon piles of food (both fresh and rotting) and just had stuff ALL OVER the floor. We can't touch their stuff, so we can't throw anything away. I'm talking, bags of food on the floor, laundry all over the end tables, even, what seemed like Cilantro, on the floor too. So I power through it and get done. The last room we had to…

I'm a 29 year old student. I'm going back to school after struggling with some pretty severe depression and anxiety stemming from a history of emotional abuse from my mother. I've been treating the depression as best as I can and I started going back to school after being unemployed for most of the duration of Covid (I worked for the census during the summer of 2021). I went back to school because I needed to feel like I was doing something to move on to the next phase of my life. Once I enrolled I immediately lost all of my SNAP benefits, about $300/mo worth of grocery credits. Because if you're a student you are ineligible for SNAP unless you work 20hr/wk minimum. So here I am taking 18 units per semester working on school work at least 50-60 hours per week including studying/homework/projects. I took 10 units in…

This sub feels like a support group that has helped me through a lot, and I wanted to share my own story. Last year, during a peak of covid cases, my boss at the time decided it was a good idea to tell our 16 employees that they should listen to a certain podcast after work that day. He said this during one of our regular Wednesday morning meetings, which usually consisted of pretty solid life-building exercises and influential content for personal growth. So naturally, I listened to what he sent us on the way home… It ended up being a covid-denying, anti-vax, anti-mask, evangelist Christian podcast that was outright saying that every death from the virus was a hoax. Now, granted.. I do think that people have the right to believe what they want, freedom of speech is a very important privilege in this day and age.. but forcing…

I said no, and he wants to know why. I said, I’m having vision trouble. I just can’t see working today.

Got an email this morning that was sent company wide by the vice president about how “highly unprofessional” it is to discuss wages and salaries with coworkers. They said they wouldn’t put in policies preventing us from discussing, but it’s very discouraged. They can’t legally do that I don’t think? I would attach the screenshot but I can’t disclose who I work for. It’s a very weird way to admit they underpay their employees.