Antiwork

This week I got pulled into the office to talk about time theft. Clocking in, then not getting straight to work, pouring myself another coffee and reading my book for a minute instead. They showed me print outs, and I took it on the chin, like, “Yep, I did that. Whoops. Won’t happen again.” THEN, they shared a picture of me moving my truck to the staff parking lot on my break. Apparently, that’s time theft because they pay me to move my truck and doing so on my break is a waste of valuable company resources? Can someone please explain this to me? What am I missing?

Today I had a meeting with the Regional Business Director of the Fortune 500 company I work for. One of the topics of discussion I brought up was wages. I believe the company pays very low for the market we are in, for myself and my direct reports. While I’ve been going on about what I’ve perceived to be low wages to deaf ears for years, I mentioned today that an annual raise maxed out at 3% is technically a pay cut when inflation in sitting at 7+% … not to mention having to pay $85 to fill up my JETTA this morning. The response was … it’s not the companies responsibility to compensate for inflation…. And yes the general public is feeling the price of inflation… but no one knows how long it will take for a correction. He did concede that he would look into raising the base…

​ Long story short.. Last November I started working at a very small company that grows marijuana. There is the owner of company who I'll call Money Man (MM). He is rarely there. The two boss/managers are MM's little brother (LB), and a convicted murderer (CM) MM hired to get the rooms set up and help manage the place. Then there is me. That's the company. ​ Before I started working there Convicted Murder (CM) physically assaulted the Little Brother (LB) over some argument that I have no idea what was about. He wasn't hurt too bad but i believe that he got a few scratches and bruises. That was assault number 1. Well yesterday when I was driving to work and I get a call from LB saying to turn around and take the day off with pay because he was physically assaulted again. Apparently LB was being bullied…

Bear with me, this is gonna be long but it’s crazy. I am a baker, I applied to a job listing and got a call back, on the phone interview the lady says she lost her entire staff over Christmas. “I don’t know” she says. “They all just quit on me. Whatever” tells me she will start me at $16 an hour and won’t overwork me like my last job did. I didn’t have a job at the time and I hadn’t heard from any of the other places I applied to and I was starting to really struggle financially so I disregarded the first red flag and went. I met the owner and the new staff. I’ll call the owner Mary (I’m changing names for the sake of anonymity) Mary introduced us to her husband John, a 60 something y/o nurse but he wasn’t working because Mary “didn’t want…

This is very much a rant sorry on phone. Checked my roster maybe 2 or 3 days ago and it said I started at 7am both Saturday and Sunday. So Saturday 7 to 12 and Sunday 7 to 3pm, but today I'm starting at 9am for some reason when I could of been sleeping in. I've only been working here 3 weeks and met the manager once and he did not like me for saying no to starting at 5am when otherwise I work nights or day shifts. He gave me 6 core hours when I was promised about 15, yes I know I didn't have it in writing but also haven't signed to have 6 bloody hours. Well FUCK YOU SHITTY MANAGER I'm talking to my old store manager and she's going try and get me transferred back and give you some dead weight. Anyway been sitting here for…

What is the coldest thing you can say to your boss when you give your 2 weeks notice I want something bone chilling cold to say

So this is my second failed experience trying to get a job at a restaurant in NYC. The restaurant is a vegan organic restaurant in NYC. I applied online, followed up in person to my interview on time and with a printed copy of my resume in hand, was super polite, but had to wait for over 30 MINUTES until the manager showed up. He asked me the usual questions and seemed impressed. I asked when I hear back, and they said ‘by the end of the week.’ I already had a terrible and lousy experience with some dickhead general manager at a rooftop bar from another restaurant in Brooklyn where the manager said he’d follow up for a decision and never dead, and this time decided that I would not wait and reached out the next day by email to the second restaurant and they said I wouldn’t get…