Antiwork

I work for a community college. Over the winter intercession I was one of maybe a dozen people that had to work; everyone else got 3 weeks paid time off. I had to fill out this form that said I would take that time off before May. I signed it, my supervisor signed it, payroll has it on file. Well, there’s no reason I need to go in today. No reason at all. I texted the one person who might miss me and let them know that I’m taking one of my remaining 5 days today, like payroll said I have to. If I don’t take it all by May it is forfeit, it won’t be paid out. My boyfriend and I are having a lovely brunch of shakshuka and mimosas and listening to late 50s surf rock. It’s taking everything I have to fight the anxiety. Everyone hates me,…

Looking to hear about peoples experience of working in Hello Fresh warehouses/distribution centres in the UK. If you worked there, or know anyone who does, i'd love to hear about what the conditions are like!

A temp agency I was considering taking a job through has a policy that if you walk off a job they will reduce your pay for the entire preceding week to minimum wage, this seems wildly unethical if not outright illegal. Added to a number of other red flags I will not be working with this company, but I'm curious what y'all think of this?

No, I’m in the same job. But someone else was promoted. She was the kind of person you would think was sweet as pie, but when her mask slipped, it was like watching reruns of V. You could practically see her dangling rats above her open mouth… Anyway, I shall be raising a glass to her being promoted far the hell away from here. I can work in a flat career trajectory forever. But people like that are more than welcome to all the promotions there are. At the top I imagine a vast room of all those people. They can keep each other company.

​ https://preview.redd.it/a8oqfv8fwkn81.png?width=946&format=png&auto=webp&s=bf0615bbc7f7b93d99c08f7708cb7b5d3f34291a Saw this in a job description a recruiter sent to me. I'm not in the market and don't normally respond to these, but this really rubbed me the wrong way. Fortunately I've been in the industry a long time now (12+ years) so I'm not so worried about this, but I've also worked a number of internships in my life, one of which was unpaid. If I had a few years of experience but got told that my unpaid internship, that was presumably only for experience, didn't count as experience, I'd absolutely tell this guy to cram it up his ass.

I have two job offers so I don’t see the point in giving a two weeks notice and having to work more time in a place that I hate. The owners are dicks so I don’t care about pissing them off. But my direct manager is a sweetheart and I’m just looking for a nice and professional way to tell her over text or call that I’m quitting right away.

I've never understood this. It's illegal for a company to stop their employees from forming a union. But for some reason it's completely legal for huge companies like Amazon and Starbucks to hire another company specifically to stop people from unionizing at their location? How is this not the something? /E Specifically in the USA.