Antiwork

I started work at this restaurant recently. I was under the impression I would strictly answering phones and ringing people up. I also didn’t even apply for this position. I worked next door at another business, and that business unfortunately went under. And the owner of the restaurant offered me a job, I felt like I would’ve been stupid to turn it down because I did need money at the time. I was supposed to start work on a slower day so I could learn the ropes. But they asked me to start on Saturday. I made sooo many mistakes. I won’t lie. But things weren’t explained to me well. And I did end up causing the owner to lose some money. There’s no POS system, so I have to manually calculate totals, tax, and discounts. I’m also 90% sure that the discounts are applied illegally because they’re after tax…

Pardon my scatter brain here for a second. Very long story, very short, I'm missing $200 on my check again. Every single pay period (bi weakly) I have to carefully go over my hours, as this happens more than not. My manager asked me to work a 12 hour shift 50 minutes away under the terms I'd be paid $4 more than my normal pay. They had no one to cover ( I'm a home health aid) and the client was completely independent so I did it. Three days prior to pay roll I remind this manager to remind payroll lady about my wage increase. Sure enough I'm now missing $200. This also happened 4 weeks prior, then you have to wait untill next payroll. I'm livid. Also I get text from my work while I'm at home. I simply told them to call me during my work hours, but…

I work in food service. 100% corporate, low skill, low education, medium effort, low pay. When it comes to management, i have little complaints. Ive fought and worked hard for a few years to get my current wage, and a location in a decent neighborhood working under my favorite manager in the district. I’m decent at money management, kid-free, and have a strong support system with my roommate and family so while i feel for all of you who are making 50-100k a year and still struggling, those same struggles dont really apply to me. Maybe this is coming from a place of privilege, but my biggest issues with my job and work in general lies with the customers. Ive been berated, robbed, threatened, my girlfriend has been attacked with coffee mugs and drinks on multiple occasions. Customers will lie, overreact, hide food i know i gave them, make complaints,…

I recently got a part-time job working with a research team at a huge national hospital. I'm a full-time graduate student, so I thought this would be a nice little income of 21/hr to help me until graduation this summer. After going through their confusing and tedious onboarding process, I was informed that I needed to complete some trainings. No problem. Then, I was given a micromanagement timetracking system that involves me tracking every minute I do work. This becomes anxiety inducing when you are just waiting for a reply to an email, so there's nothing to write for the time elapsed. But okay, we adapt. Originally, I was told that my job duties were to perform some assessments with a partcipants list that will be provided to me. Now I'm being told that I must go door to door and recruit 5 to 10 participants a week. This study…

I was overhearing some ladies in my office talking about their medical appointments and that they had to reschedule them. One of the girls waited 3 months to see an optometrist and had to reschedule, I asked why and she said there's no one to cover her desk while away. The other lady had to cancel her dental appt because she also didn't have anyone to cover for her (says that her job is very specialized work and no one can “just cover”). I realized that these 2 have to give up their health needs due to a job that would move on regardless if they were there or not. Why do people choose their jobs over their own health? You pay monthly for very expensive health plans (in America) and literally can't go see the doctor. This entire job culture in America is terrible. Everyone. DO NOT CANCEL YOUR…

I'm occasionally involved in recruitment at the company I work at. It's not actually a part of my job description, but since our HR team is so small and we have large recruitment targets a lot of senior managers such as myself get drafted. We're not trained beyond the details of what we're 'allowed' to discuss with applicants at which times. As you might guess, salary is one of the last things that is discussed, and there are SO many hoops applicants are asked to jump through. I jumped through the same hoops to get my job, and while frustrated I felt grateful at the end to get the job. We really are brainwashed in this way, and I see it in a lot of applicants that get messed around so much but keep their faith and trust in a system that really looks at them in a toxic way.…

Backstory: I'm a paramedic and started at a new ambulance company that had a bad reputation in the area. First day of work I found most of the medications on the ambulances and in the supply closet to be expired, some by nearly 2 years. There were boxes of hoarded medications in the closet that were put back on the truck when employees tried to remove them. Some had even crystallized. Supervisor kept saying he wasn't able to order the medications (but was somehow magically able to after the owner stepped in). Some of the pediatric equipment (including IV supplies) was 10+ years expired. No infant defibrillation pads. Rusty syringes. I can't even describe my horror. So, I spent the first few months purging it all and writing to the owner with another coworker to try and fix the issue. But my direct supervisor is a hoarder and was upset…

My boyfriend and I are in an LDR for over 5 years now. He is German and I live here in US working as a physical therapist. We have been having trouble deciding who gets to stay where, mainly because I make a decent liveable wage but work here in the US is intense and stressful. Not to mention that I get sick from time to time because I have asthma. I understand all the benefits that I would have when I move to Germany, but my salary there will be smaller and it might take a while for me to work as a PT right away because I have to learn German plus transferring my credentials. Housing is expensive in Germany, too. I keep going back and forth on this. My boyfriend doesn't want to live here but he said if I want to stay here then he has…

I work a food service job with a 50-something who is the type to devote her life to working as hard as possible. She exists to work. She is physically incapable of relaxing or staying home EVER. If you complain about literally anything around her she gives you the 'ol, “Eh quit your bellyachin'” attitude. And even when she's clearly physically and mentally worn out for the day, limping across the restaurant and can barely string words together anymore, she still pushes on working as hard as possible. The other day she was making small talk with an Elderly regular. She boasted to him, “Yeah I picked up a shift today, even came in on my day off!” He replies with, “Right on! You show them youngin's how it's done ;)” I was standing right next to them and could barely stop myself from rolling my eyes so hard that…