Antiwork

My husbands work is IT for a multinational bank. He trained a woman who worked there recently. They worked from home the whole pandemic with zero issues and the job can be done 100 percent at home. My husband said they liked this other staff member and they had no issue with her work. She has a young baby so kept working from home. They fired her yesterday because she wouldn’t come in to work in their stupid office 3 days a week for no reason. This wasn’t my husband or his bosses decision. This came from HR… So now my husbands department is short staffed again. The mind actually boggles with these places

This is a bit of a mixed bag. So we all know that Amazon can go suck a dick. They cancelled my Flex partnership this morning without due cause and a lot of false allegations about me booking blocks and not turning up. Despite my many complaints about the dysfunctionality of the app, it fell on deaf ears and I have appealed it. So in my anger I jumped online and applied for some more jobs that had appeared overnight. I had got like six down and I received a call, and ten minutes later I was filling out onboarding paperwork. I start tomorrow, 45 hours a week, $35hr base. It remains to be seen how well I get treated here.

I was working a factory job and management had made a comment along the lines of “we cant find or keep employees these days so I decided to tell him why There is a employer that has a giant help wanted sign down the road paying 5$ an hour to start offering free health insurance subway down the road is paying 4$ an hour more the ware house latterly by the exit of the factor has a giant help wanted sign out side There is a job sign right on the expressway when you get off from work offering 8$ an hour than you pay People talk about how they haven't gotten raises in years and how benefits keep going down The manager proceeded to state on how there is nothing more they could do for us and they were offering unlimited over time.

I see the opinion that having children is a bad idea espoused a lot in this sub, and it's unfortunate that, as someone who actually wants kids one day, I have to agree. For most of us, having kids right now would be putting us on a one-way track downwards. There are a lot of factors contributing to this now-widespread choice: – Standards. There are so many standards that myself and others would have to meet before we would even consider having kids. We don't want to have kids that had to settle for our shitty public school system like I had to just because I can't afford a better school for them. I don't want them to have to work and pay their own way through college. I don't want them to get through the first twenty years of their life only to enter a decades-long grind just so…

I (24y male) work in New York at a restaurant supply. This week, I worked a short extra shift, but had to leave halfway through another shift and called out the next shift due to illness and shortness of breath. I normally never call out (the last time was when I broke my leg 2 years ago skateboarding. I still showed up for my shift but my boss closed the shop so he could drive me to the urgent care when he saw I could barely walk. Didn't know it was broken until then) but this was pretty bad. I was so congested I felt like I was drowning, and I got very confused and kept forgetting what I was doing in the middle of a task. I was two hours short of full time, 4 hours short of my norm. Well, my boss deducted 12 hr of my pto…

My husband has worked for a call center for nearly 8 years. Since the beginning of the pandemic, he’s been working from home. He was a manager for 6 years, but was informed he was to be laid off in December 2020 because his metrics were off for one quarter. Being that he’s diabetic and I needed surgery, he made a deal to go back on the phones at the same pay to keep our insurance. In the 6 years since he was on the phones, a lot has changed in terms of call time. In the old days, resolving a customer’s issue was #1, now it’s all about getting the customer a quick fix so you can take the next call. A typical call should take no longer than 4 minutes. It was a shock to him because he still had the mentally of customer first. Those who work…

I know it sounds like boomer advice, but I think they don’t actually expect us to take it. All my life I was told it’s just easier to work for someone else, because they take on all the costs and risks. Well, I’ll tell ya what. I’m a personal trainer. Every gym I applied for wanted me to work for free. Most wanted me to pay “rent” back to the gym. They told me, “you have to earn your customers.” Give out free sessions to new members, a small percentage will become clients. Run free classes every week, a small percentage will become clients. And then pay the gym for the privilege of using their space. Gyms are perfectly happy to market personal training services as a sell point. Free classes in the membership. Free PT session upon sign-up. What would I get? Nothing. So I said, “stuff it.” Bought…

Im still a student at a university, and yeah i know study is unrelated to this group. But people study so they can get work. And people romanticise the idea of studying 24 hours a day and pulling all nighters, which is no different from romanticising overworking and doing a side hustle. Both of which i hate. Its not only the studying all day that gets me. There is a strong pressure for students to get part time jobs or internships. A handful of students promote their internship. They flaunt their job position on social media as if it is a trophy. It seems like studying and working has become a big part people's identity. Then theres the usually work culture. Glorifying overworking as if you are fighting day and night to end world war 2 and the idea of taking not taking annual leaves. Doing side hustles and even…