Antiwork

I worked for Bunnings warehouse which is a HUGE hardware store in New Zealand I was in the timber yard, like always super short staffed so I was running all day. A customer was lurking very close to the sideways forklift while it was moving so I asked him not to step infront of it he then screamed “I'm not a fucking moron” then stepped right in front of one of the wheels when I screamed stop he went NUTS! About half way threw this shift I was stationed on the door checking receipts by this point I'm pooped! from trying to keep up with customers shop lifting and needing help, the brand new store manager caught me leaning against a pile of drywall for half a moment and jumped on me asking why everyone thinks it's OK to sit on the job. I spent 30 mins trying not to…

I hate working, I knew it since the day after I turned 18 when I got my first job. I instantly knew that it was not what I want to be doing for the next 40-50 years of my life. I worked all through out college (30-35 a week) and recently graduated debt free with the money that I made plus little grants and scholarships here and there. I’m currently paying off my parent’s mortgage, I’ve been doing it for the past one and a half year now, and has about 5 months to go before it’s paid off. My immigrant parents work minimum wage jobs and I grew up dirt poor and it was something that I promised myself that I’d do for us once I am able to. After that I plan on saving up a huge deposit on my own home (a condo) and working to to…

Everyday when you wake up you have a choice of how you want to spend your day. Start it by doing something for yourself, truly for yourself, even if it's only a small token. Make you first. Then make the choice to spend time during the day performing tasks that result in income so you can make additional choices. Yes, it's mindset. You don't “have to” go to work. 1) A business advertises “help wanted.” 2) Offer to “help” them. 3) You come to an agreement that they can expect you to help them at specified times/days and they'll compensate you for the time you've helped. You are trading your time for money, nothing more, nothing less. 4) When you wake up choose to go help someone, don't resign yourself to working for someone. No one owns you. 5) If they don't appreciate the help you provide, go help someone…

I see so many people complaining about managers and owners that don't treat them right. I'm kind of tooting my own horn here, but I wanted to share my experiences with building employee loyalty, not to the company, but to you as a leader. I've been in many managerial roles in my short 35 years of life and I have to say that I have had some of the happiest and most loyal employees ever. The way I accomplished this is simple, I treat employees like people and individuals, not as expendable company assets. Some examples follow: I make sure that I am the one that picks up the slack if we're short-handed due to sickness. I don't bother someone on their day off, I go in or stay late to cover that gap. If they are having a bad interaction with a client, I step in and backup/support/defend my…

Hello, My boss has his own personal security camera set up that's independent of the actual security cameras/system we require for the store. It goes directly to his phone and he uses it to basically spy on us. It is motion-activated and follows me around the store. He's used it to text me and tell me that I needed to upsell better (listening in to conversations with customers), has used it to listen in to conversations between me and my coworkers, and in an employee review said he wasn't happy with how I've said I “Only make minimum wage” to these coworkers, saying he has been listening to us through this camera. I'm in Canada, and I was wondering if this was even legal? I've been searching online and there's lots of conflicting information, but I have read that employers using security cameras beyond the use of actual security could…

Quit my job at the BK where they made me drive there in a snowstorm without telling me it closed. Now I work in a Union which is flexible on the hours I can work with a great boss paying 17 an hour. Unionization is based.

I’ve done gigs for them since I was 16/17 years old. I WAS a kid at the time (almost 20 years ago) and now the client is using it as an excuse to not use me in a higher payed roll, despite doing the job for the better part of a decade. I put in work and I’m still seen as a kid, I’m bitter because as I grew, my client didn’t. I’m an example that “putting in time” does not always equate to, well anything. Get paid. Your loyalty can be bought, but there must be a down payment.