Antiwork

I work part time at a restaurant along with studying for a degree in the week. i’ve very explicitly told my manager my limit is 20 hours a week, and most the time i’ve done my 20 hours before the weekend comes round. at least twice a week every week she will message me asking if i can come in to ‘cover’ or ‘help out’ for someone who’s called in sick. i really don’t want to but the way it’s phrased is an expectation for me to come in. it’s really not my fault if someone calls in sick and when i say no i get met with something like, ‘we could really use the help from you, others have helped out before’ or ‘we like people who are dependable in this company’. it’s getting pretty tiring. if one person calling in sick messes up service for the entire restaurant,…

I work at a huge global conglomerate and it's just depressing. It's an extremely competitive environment and people treat each other like crap. It's almost like being in a war torn country…alliances must be made, people backstab one another and/or blame their co workers for any little problem they run into. People are shallow and desperate. It's so depressing…but what can you do? The benefits are decent and the pay has the capacity to become high. It's just sad and appalling that people lose any semblance of their humanity competing constantly with others. It's soulless.

So, here's what happened when I got back from my afternoon run. Once everyone finished their runs, we all got called into the lunch room. Union organiser, 3 levels of managers and the owner were all present. Owner went on at some length about the unexpected software problem, how it wasn't really anyone's fault, and that failure to make other arrangements was an oversight (that was as close as we got to an apology) He then went on to say that “at great expense to the company” they had arranged an out of sequence interim payment so everyone would be paid on time after all. The fact that this was done “at great expense to the company” was reiterated 4 or 5 times throughout the talk, but the crux was that we would be getting paid on time. After the talk, we all filed out to go home. The manager…