Antiwork

I've been a factor guy for 12 years, and most the time it's 2 on 2 off 3 on 3 off 12 hour days. Starting at 4-5 am till 4:30-5:30 pm, or switched for nights. I started a new job that was supposed to be 4, 12 hour days. 2 months in its been 60 every week. I had enough and on Monday I called in, on Tuesday I was almost in tears driving to work. I just drove passed it turned around and went home. I have a family that I've always put 1st but I was getting to the point where I was going to drive my car into a tree. I have 3 job interviews lined up with respectful hours. I just want to have some life at the end of my day to talk to my kids, workout, sleep more then 5 hours. I woke up…

We’ve recently returned to the office and I just can’t handle it. It’s a God awful open office concept so we don’t even have cubicles. I have sensory processing issues and I absolutely can’t focus on my job with multiple people having phone calls, office chatter, beeping microwaves, people on speakerphone etc. I absolutely panic and spend a lot of time in the bathroom because I get a fight or flight reaction and have to get away. I discussed how my productivity has gone down with my direct boss, who is fine with me working from home. It’s his boss, the President of the company, who won’t allow it. So I asked my psychiatrist for a letter saying I can’t work in an office due to my diagnosed Generalized Anxiety Disorder. I received the letter today and it’s really embarrassing to me. I know we need to break the mental…

Hello! Obligatory apologies for formatting as I am on mobile Okay, so I started this job late January, interviewed in late December. It seemed like an awesome job. Minimal customer interactions but frequent employee interaction which I don't mind. I don't have to put on a customer face for that. I asked about lunches and paid holidays. Lunch is 30 minutes long but if I talk to my manager, I could clock in early and get an hour for lunch. Holidays are paid time off too. Everything sounds good so I schedule an interview with the hiring manager through zoom. Interview day comes, I am sitting at my computer, nervous as heck ready for this interview. I got in 5 minutes early just in case. The scheduled time comes along and passes. Nothing. I think, they are just a little late so I'll wait some more. 20 minutes pass and…

Having strong feelings about clock in/out policy that only allows a 3 minute window. If I clock in more than a minute early, I am stealing time and if I clock in more than a minute after start time, I am late. After 5 incidents, I am subject to firing. I am human, a HUMAN -not a machine! There are thousands of variables that can make a 1 minute difference in my pre-work/break routine, which means I compensate by being to work early and waiting for the clock-in window, both at the start of shift and at the end of break. Which means I am spending a fair amount of time at work that I am not getting compensated for. Who is the one really stealing time here?

30s, lost job during covid, no offers yet. They have severe anxiety. They don't ask me about anything else and never have other than work and school

I started working for this company back in 2019 and I saw so many red flags in the first few weeks but I needed the paycheques. I told myself I would keep looking regardless. When Covid became more mainstream in my city and cases were on the rise, upper-management and most of middle management disappeared overnight. We were told a lot of them were on vacations unrelated to the covid situation, or had doctor's appointments. Some wrote some emails about how their kids school were now closed and how imperative it was that we continue to show up and they were scrambling for a solution. The government imposed restrictions on businesses but they told us these restrictions didn't apply to the business as we were considered an essential service, all lies. They started bringing us gift cards or buying us lunch to thank us for coming into work. The company…

🧵Under the National Labor Relations Act, workers have a right to talk to each other about their wages and other working conditions. This can be a vital first step to acting with coworkers to make a workplace fairer—and to organize a union. Workers also have a right under the NLRA to talk with those who may help them improve their working conditions; this includes labor unions, the NLRB and other government agencies, the media, and civil rights organizations. Workplace rules that prohibit employees from talking to each other or third parties about wages or other working conditions seriously discourage employees’ rights to organize and are illegal under the NLRA. Sometimes these work rules don’t directly say that employees can’t talk to one another or third parties about working conditions but are so confusing or so broadly written that workers may not do so out of fear of breaking a rule.…