Antiwork

So I am trying to get a few weeks off to go to America to see my family members that I haven’t seen because of the two year pandemic. I booked it off on the system at work. My manager then approaches me a couple days later after formally denying that request on the system. And says “don’t book holiday without asking if it’s okay” like what she acted like I committed the worst crime. Then she goes on and says you probably can’t have that holiday because there’s people with kids who need that time off during July august time. So I do understand the people with kids need to spend time with their kids but then again it’s occurred to me that that’s not my issue. I feel bad for thinking this way but the more I ponder then more I think it’s not my fault. I didn’t…

I just applied for a job for 0-10 hours a week as a servicedesk assistent in my local grocery store. In my eyes it's really a 'dumb job' where you do cashiers' work plus some extra responsabilities. Done this before when I was 16 or so, I'm now 29. After a half hour interview with 2 men where they asked one too many questions about my personal life, they now asked me to come in again on Tuesday for a second interview. I honestly don't understand why this is neccesary for a simple job, or maybe I'm underestimating the job itself. I tried to explain I only want this job because I want to do something with my time instead of sitting at home. I'm at a point in my life where I don't know what job I'd like to do for the rest of my working life, and explained…

Seriously guys, it seems like every post on here is this wonderful story of how the job abused you and then you suddenly had all these interviews lined up and got something much better. I can tell you that it isn't the case where I live. There are many unskilled, non benefit shit jobs with low pay. So I guess if my current job doesn't work out I can go rotate through all of them without health insurance and work retail and fast food for years. But how is that better than the current bullshit I'm going through? It isn't. Does everyone in these posts have amazing degrees or skills or years in something really niche? I just want to read some posts that I can relate to. Posts about someone who has a bachelors in something random and student debt and finally got a full time with benefits that…

I've been looking for a new job awhile now and I'm seeing a trend. Every interview every job always has a multi week process or the process takes so long that the recruiters themselves never get back to contacting me agian (had an email + call (edit) this morning from a recruiter / HR person for a company that I had an interview with 5 months ago call to reject me) I laughed really loud and just let them know how unprofessional they are. I remember almost 4 years ago when i would go to apply for places it never took more than 2 days. Never took more than a single interview. What in the world changed with these companies ??? It seems like they're purposefully and willingly making it seem like they're hiring people while at the same time not hiring anyone at all.

Briefly worked at Walmart dc and seriously what the fuck we have to do better. One coworker of mine averaged 24 miles of walking in a day farther than their commute to work. Absolutely no lighting to save money and make you feel depressed and dark. The break room thats 5 mins one way from your spot so your 15 min break is really 5 mins. No piss breaks at all. Unsafe as hell productivity that you can only meet if you fully exert yourself for 10 hrs. Lots of injuries from trying to make quota and rushing through. No music thats a big one for me like why cant someone listen to music if they are trapped loading a trailer for hours. The craziest thing I saw working there was how you have to unjam freight you physically gotta climb up in the bucket 35 feet up in the…

If you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re looking to settle out of court with your employer, for the love of everything that is holy, NEVER tell them first what you want/how much you want. Our legal asked this former employee how much he wanted to basically make the problem go away, to which he promptly replied $20k. Problem is, before we met with the person we had determined we could go much, much higher. Never give the first number first. If asked, say, what did John Doe Company have in mind, or “what can John Doe Company do to help me.” This forces them to throw something out which you can then push higher. I know, I know, this sub hates HR so I’m sure I’ll get flogged in the comments (and a lot in my field truly deserve it), but thought I’d share so no one…

I have a feeling this story is very common. Details are slightly changed for privacy I'm a high performing worker. I kill departmental targets and I'm easily outperforming others in my team. To be clear, I do the bare minimum most of the time but when I deliver my output, it's of good quality. I get praises from upper management left and right. I take pride in my work and I enjoy it. The thing is, I've been promoted 3x now in my 4 years of tenure and I am STILL broke as hell. Each promotion came with a 3-8% raise and I understand that this is big but inflation is easily 3-5% each year (but I feel like it's higher than reported in the media?? Am I crazy?) I can't feel my success at all because I'm still struggling financially. I can barely save money and some days I'm…