Antiwork

I asked my instructor if I could take my 15-minute break and she looked at me dumbfounded. She said that none of them take their HR REQUIRED breaks, only lunch. I told her and everyone else that if that is the case, I will be taking my breaks, combined, at the end of the shift to go home early AFTER giving my relief a report. They all told me to make sure I am not caught by our director. I told them that if I am caught, I will explain the why. They seemed wary but curious to see what happens. What will happen is I will explain why and if my manager does not like it, I will leave. This is ONE of the reasons people experience burnout at hospitals. Just last night, a coworker of mine told us that she did not even take her dinner break. FIGHT…

I live in a ruby red state and I’ve found in many instances, I have almost no rights as a worker. I thought I would write up a quick summary of how I’ve handled myself when I experienced something a lot of employees have had happen: finding out a newer employee makes more than you. There will be parts of this that some of you disagree with, because it will feel like you’re stroking your boss’s ego. Just remember—this has been very effective for me. Results are all I care about. And if the boss doesn’t give me what I want, he will lose a good employee unceremoniously. So without further ado, here is how you should take your power back it a boss hires on a coworker at a higher wage than you: 1.) Ask for a one on one conversation with your boss. Do this in person rather…

Manager sprung this on us yesterday. Apparently, going forward if we're late to shift, they charge pto time to cover. My initial search says it amounts to docking pay, but I'm going to check with a lawyer after the holiday. I told all my coworkers to take it and keep their mouths shut and we'll see if we can get a check

This happened a few months ago. To put it plainly, I put in my two weeks notice to the dealership I worked for in the morning and then I was “fired” a few hours later. I live in an ‘at will’ state so it’s legal. They could have escorted me off the lot immediately before gathering my things (a little over $20k in tools) but thankfully I was able to talk my way into having time to get my stuff. I’ve always been a person that challenges authority when I see something wrong (people being taken advantage of, discrimination, lack of integrity etc.). I believe them not wanting me to tell the truth to my co workers is what sparked them not accepting my notice. I left for an independent shop which put me in a bind because I had to find a tool box and tool cart to fit…

I work at a business that serves around 100-150 customers per hour on average (not naming names because it's a local business and I don't want to get fired) and 4 employees out of 14 total including myself quit the other day. We have 7 part timers and 3 full timers left, and my manager refuses to hire anyone despite having tons of applicants. Instead he promoted his best friend who apparently has several workplace sexual harassment allegations and scheduled the rest of us to work twice as many hours as before, no bonus, no raise. I have not yet graduated high school and have chronic pain, so the list of places I could go work at instead is very small. I have a little under $2000 saved, but I have to pay for gas, groceries, and a bunch of other unpredictable shit as my mother continues to push random…

I recently went back to work with a place I had left before for poor management, specifically in scheduling and task management. I took a huge pay cut for 6 months to “prove” that I was back “for the right reasons” which is whatever. I agreed, and I proved myself enough that they gave me a raise and back pay two months earlier than expected. So this week my entire household meaning my boyfriend, myself and our two kids got the stomach flu extremely bad and I had to miss Mon-Wed. On Thursday I come into work, and get told that one of my coworkers has been let go so now I am to take over her shift. Meaning I go from swing mon-fri to now working thurs-mon. I have no problem with this, even with the super last minute notice, and that’s presumably why they picked me to take…

I was laid off with about 25% of this company's workforce (a little over 20 people). They made comments in the meeting like they wouldn't be able to make it another 3 months without doing it. They've done everything they could to avoid laying off people until now. Today I got an email from LinkedIn, [company posted an update!” The thing that I really want to point out is that when they laid everyone off, they kept the “culture coach” and the full time lawyer but they laid off the IT people… when it's an IT company. I'm glad to not be working there anymore but someone should take control of that company away from the CEO. I had a safety net I could fall back on. A lot of the people laid off didn't.