Antiwork

I literally had this conversation with my close ones today about employers doing this. I’ve had 4 interviews and multiple calls & emails with this company for an open position they were looking to fill immediately. I had a call with them today & I was told previously salary and any last min questions would be the nature of this call. Instead, I was told they are still interviewing other candidates and if they decided to move forward with me my final interview would be with a man who will be judging my appearance and tone of my voice as it’s a front desk operations position. They also let me know they hadn’t communicated w the other manager regarding how my interview went with them so that felt like a waste of my time. There were other instances of miscommunication/ lack of communication throughout the whole interview process. I took…

I work in a city in the smaller city (100,000 people). Not so big that it’s completely edged out family owned businesses but big enough that they have to compete with chains. I was hired at an auto body shop to detail cars before they were returned to clients. The business was family owned, the team was small and friendly, and there was room for growth within the company. It was perfect since jobs at larger chain companies had burned me before and I vowed to never work them again. When I was in the interviewing process I let them know that I would need a week to attend my brother’s wedding. “Not a problem” they said. I worked for a month without much incident, just general things involved with getting used to a new job. When 2 weeks before the date I was scheduled to leave rolled around, I…

So about 3 weeks ago at work I carried rough estimate is at a minimum 750 5 gallon buckets of peagravel after wards it felt like I had shin splints but in my right forearm uncomfortable but figured it'd probably just go away but I called one of my bosses and told him about it, and he acknowledged it. I probably should've sent a text to prove I was hurt at the time but i had figured it would go away. The next few weeks were a unusual amount of shoveling due to our machine breaking down, now my hands go numb randomly if I shovel and hurt alot(like want to cry in pain), but during this time I also had to fix my truck on my weekends so I brought it up to my other boss that i was hurt at work and the I had told my other…

I switched departments at work about 5 months ago. I was working monday- friday. 8h shifts. All days. Roughly 215-220 days a year. I'm now on shift. 12h days. 4 on 4 off. 2 days 2 nights. So I only get up early 2 days a tour. I was worried how I was going to fair with this schedule and honestly, I'll never go back! I work less than half the year now! If you removed my 2 weeks holidays and floaters, I really only work 160-170 days a year. And that does not account for time i can take with any banked overtime i get. That's a difference of 55 or so days!!!! Like nearly 2 extra months of freedom! I highly recommend it, If you can find yourself a shift position!

Phone rules in businesses need to change significantly I don’t know if this is ok here, but so many jobs have unnecessary phone rules. “yOuR nOT pAId tO bE oN YOur phONe” is so stupid. Employers and managers will be on your ass because you’re not 100% towards you repetitive ass job that doesn’t even pay a living wage. Now in cases where you’re driving a work vehicle and need to be focused that is exceptional. But most jobs simply give you shit just because you’re on your phone, and then managers or the employer/s will go ahead and do the thing they’ll punish or fire you for, is hypocritical bullshit. I work at the airport and work in a section where bags come down a conveyer system and your job is to put the bag in a cart. One cart can fit 50 bags but 50 bags doesn’t come…

And now everyone is looking for a new job. They said that they will get in line with current job standards. They seemed to have given everyone a 10% pay increase but we all know that we could go work somewhere else and make 50% more. 2/3rds of our qa has left and so has all of our senior workers. This company is not small and is in fact very large. If noncompetes were illegal then they wouldn't have any workers left.

So just the basic info about me. I'm an IT student at a university in Germany. As part of my curriculum I have to do a three month internship. So I applied at one of the biggest if not the biggest web dev company in my region. I got the position and went there on monday which was my first day, expecting a little tour and signing the contract. But nope. I got my first project which is basically a web application for a client and got to work. This being my first real “job” I didn't say anything. It wasn't until friday that I got my contract. And to sum it up: 40hrs/week at about 2.80€/hr (For reference minimum wage is about 9.80€/hr.) or to be precise with what's in the contract: 450€/Month. Not only do I get a fraction of the minimum wage while working on a client…

I work in a firm in Poland, and our TL (Team Leader) is considerably worse than other leaders. She got a job only because of nepotism and having ties with someone even higher up, even though she is not qualified, work experience wise or education. She mostly doesn't know what needs to be done, or what we produce or what the process is. The kicker? She got her friend into the job here, one of the starting positions. The new girl “M” has been here for barely a month, barely did anything, because she has supposed back problems and having some metal in her spine. Of course, TL and M are friends, and for most part of the month, they took breaks together in the middle of the work, M takes constant breaks (think like: works 5 min and then takes a 20 min break, M comes back and TL…

Looking at the rent in other states i feel deep jealousy.