Antiwork

so I started a new job today as a pharmacy tech. it’s a job but I also have 0 debt. I opened my welcome emails policies and something irked me right off. the sick/absent policy is to call 2 hours prior to shift and speak to the pharmacist. if the pharmacist can tell you an it med you can take to manage your symptoms you are expected to come into work. Excuse me what? the pharmacist isn’t my pharmacist and isn’t discussing phi between others a violation of hipaa? it don’t set right with me anyway I look at it. what do you all think am I crazy?

I’m his was a few years back, but oh boy was this place the worst. I had gotten an interview at a liquor warehouse through a family member. I arrived to my interview early and waited patiently as my interview time came and went. About 30 minutes after my scheduled time I asked the receptionist when my interview would be and she informed me that the interviewer was no longer on site and wanted me to return the next day. I needs the job so I said fine and returned the next day. Again, my interviewer didn’t manage to show up for our interview so I bailed after waiting for probably too long. On my way home I received a phone call from the interviewer and they apologized and offered me the job and I foolishly accepted it. On my first day of work they had a big staff meeting…

I usually just lurk and I'm on mobile, so please forgive any weird formatting. This is more of a vent than anything. My current job has a huge event that's setting up in their parking lot, so us mooks and other such little guys are being forced to park about 10 minutes' drive away and get shuttled in/out of work. To “compensate”, our oh so generous company has bestowed upon us an extra 30 minutes to each day that we can't just park in the lot. 15 minutes one way, 15 minutes back. Trouble is, it takes a good 45 minutes at the end of my day just to get back to my car, and then I drive another 10 minutes home. Just getting to work normally takes me about 10 minutes anyway, and now I need to account for an inconsistent shuttle that might or might not get me…

Basically the upper management (seniors) are dumping crap they are supposed to do to me. Other employees are used to their bullying so they keep quiet and do it. Things that we, outside of our own responsibilities, are forced to do because they are lazy. Now that I'm leaving, I don't want to put up with this, how can I make it difficult for them? Also can they still fire you for that if you have already resigned?

I am a Marketing & Communications Coordinator and part of my job description is internal comms. We're usually the ones organising company events from product launches to Christmas morning tea. These events are set by my boss and the CEO and lately, they have been into company BBQs and I'm the lackey that organises the whole thing including having to ask people to cook and clean. Everyone hates it. The food is not enough for a company of 150 pax (with half being engineers who work in engines all day) with a budget of $250 and my boss insists in throwing a few steaks in the grill… so imagine how much that eats up the whole budget. Secondly, all the departments are intensely short staffed so being pulled away for 2-3 hours to cook and clean is a massive toll in the overall workforce. We're also salaried so we don't…

I’ve thought about this a lot and I think at the root level, there are 2 main problems in our current system. Political and economic overlap is one, and until it is outlawed, nothing will ever change. That means you can’t use political power to buy economic power (IE no congressional trading), and you can’t us economic power to buy political power (IE campaign donations). The next step after ensuring that is the decommodification of the needs of survival. What if we took away the ability to manufacture scarcity by providing something of a universal basic needs guarantee? Theoretically, we could invest in some massive public facilities that guaranteed private shelter, food, clean water, and healthcare. Like massive hotels, with medical facilities every 20 or so floors. The rest of the system could even remain the same but the difference is that now, working for the capitalist is no longer…

I'm beyond frustrated at this point in life. I know it's an all too common feeling. I'm 35 (f) single mom. When i had my child, 13 years ago, I wanted to try my hardest to make our circumstances as good as I could. I went to college part-time and worked part-time for six years, finally graduating in 2016. Got a job in my field that absolutely wrecked my mental health. I suffered compassion fatigue and couldn't benefit my clients anymore. I did mental health case management for four years and realized I would still never make enough unless I went to grad school. I applied to grad school and then the pandemic hit and I couldn't school both my child and I. I left my field to do hard labor for my mental health and honestly, it pays more. I see no end in sight of this struggle. I…

I have a coworker who is very sweet and always on time for her job for the last year, without taking much sick leave. She recently found out her family dog passed, which she was very close to. Apparently our management would not grant sick leave for the day after. I'm just… so outraged . For the amount of work and effort we put in, How inhumane can you get? Is profit seriously worth have a crying employee staffed all day? Who made this shit?

He's a higher up manager than me but I don't work for him. We got on the topic of general malaise around the place and I asked him if he was going to do another pizza party? I said it's hard to pay your bills with pizza. He just looked at me. 😀