Antiwork

I’m not sure if this is the right space for this, but I’ve gotten a ton of help from the Antiwork Facebook page before so I thought I’d give it a shot. I ‘came out’ to my supervisor as someone with PTSD after requesting to use noise canceling headphones in an active office environment. Instead of letting me use the headphones when needed, they required me to go through HR and file an ADA accommodation request. Whatever, I did it and the request was approved. Now I’m documented as someone with a disability. Since then, new rules have been implemented in the office. Nobody is allowed to wear over the ear headphones without prior approval (this singles me out in my opinion). Another accommodation I requested is to take a 15 minute break in the conference room when I’m having an attack. The accommodation was approved and nobody seemed to…

Original post: At my job (I’m a barista at a coffee shop), we pull our tips from the cash register every shift change and disperse them throughout all of the baristas on the floor. Today, there was an issue with pulling the tips and the drawer ended up being short. My manager asked myself and three other baristas for a portion of our tips back the make up for it. I wanted to ask to see if I actually had to do that or if I could say no. This is in Texas btw Two days ago, I told them that I didn’t feel comfortable putting my own money into the till to make up for the less than $50 difference, as there was too much room for error with everything being strictly on paper, and with me receiving all of the tips I was supposed to receive that shift…

Title says it all. Since 6am the boss had me be the only person pulling inventory cages from the stockroom to the shop floor and then stock up as fast as possible. She said I had to do this on my own as coworkers were complaining about how long I took. She set a stopwatch to see how fast I was going and every time I finished a cage she made me run to get a new one (dangerous on the shop floor). Finally I’m at breaking point and tell her if I don’t slow down I will die! Her response: ‘dying on the shop floor is an honourable death… and you’re not worthy of it’. I am shocked and hurt. Is work supposed to be hell?

So I applied to a job for a chicken-fast-food place and I was excited after I received my offer for the job! Good pay, and I wanted to move up in the company etc. Anyways, fast forward to the orientation, the HR lady was going over information in the employee handbook with a PowerPoint. We get to the part about pay, and in big bold letters it reads “Discussing your pay with other employees will lead to immediate termination.” Nowi think that’s illegal across the USA, but I’m in California so I know for fact it is. I being the idiot I am, tell her that is and they can get in a lot of trouble for doing so. She claimed to not know… like you work in HR and don’t know this? So anyways, the next day I received an email stating they are retracting the offer of employment.…

Been working with the same company since November 2017 as a customer service facing employee, basically a cashier. I'm a diligent employee, always punctual, incredibly competent (to the point of being way over qualified for my current position), professional, helpful, collaborative, you name it for this companies needs I check all the boxes to be prepared for advancement, I'm even trained beyond the skillset necessary for my position and have been for some time. Importantly I'm also about to finish graduate school, and have been enrolled in the school basically since I started. Late 2018 I applied for a back office assistant position working with the compliance department. Was turned down because the hiring manger wanted someone who would take the position as a career role, and I anticipated leaving once I graduated (which I told the hiring manger). I hoped to use this position as a springboard. To my…

My wife is an Emergency physician, she took her first sick day after six years in her current role and was chastised by her boss and then threatened with an HR meeting. Add to this two years of dealing with a pandemic and a chronically understaffed ER. It is no surprise that nearly everyone in her department is burned out and many are planning on quitting. Going to work when you're sick and possibly contagious is generally a bad idea. Doing that when you're a doctor and will be interacting with elderly and immune-compromised people is insane. WTF is wrong with hospital administration in the US.

It was my first ever job with benefits at age 40 and they just let me go. I wasn't a “good fit”. I needed to be more “interruptable” which proved a challenge due to learning disabilities. I've struggled with employment for 2 decades due to them. I've been fired from service jobs because of it. I've tried to work with my disabilities. I've carried a notebook to write down instructions, notes, or details I will need to remember. I've made bulletpoint lists of my tasks and notes on where to pick up where I left off when I do get interrupted. I've even made sure to double check with others about tasks and make sure I've completed them properly. It was all for naught. Worst of all, I had not reached the time goal for my benefits to kick in. I have my mom to fall back on. Without her…