Antiwork

Posted last week about getting a cabin as a detour to not being harassed all week about working on my day off. And for the most part it worked. Until as I was glamping and literally thanking myself for the trip. My very prickish emotionally inept manager called at 10:30ishpm on the first night and asked me to do him a solid. I had been drinking since 4. So instead of hanging up on him. I entertained his questions. Thinking he was going to ask me to double check his paperwork, as per usual. But no. This prick said he googled where the camp ground was and noticed it was only 45 minutes away from work and then proceeded to ask me to come in. I had him on speaker and me and my better half had a good laugh. He hung up. I woke up at 6am yesterday to…

Inflation is at a record high. The housing market sucks, rent sucks, Most of the jobs available are low wage shitty jobs. I have pretty much given up hope on having a small family of my own anytime soon.

I work for a large international hotel company. It’s been a rough few years in this industry. Chronic understaffing, long hours, combined with guests who are worse behaved than ever. My coworkers and I have been slogging through. We’ve dealt with having our revenue team oversell us almost every night for weeks, getting screamed at about our property’s exorbitant pet fees, and a myriad of other issues. Well, it’s associate appreciation week and how do they show their thanks? Goodie bags with a can of coke, a candy bar, and a thing of microwave popcorn. Plus a lunch at the beginning of the week that not everyone can attend. Feels worse than not getting anything at all.

So I would post a picture if I could, but screenshots are only allowed on Sundays so I have to explain this situation to y’all. I cook for a local restaurant, and it’s a very popular spot. This place brought in over $1m last year. They actually have brought in so much money since they opened 3-4 years ago that the owners are now building themselves a new house from the ground up. The owners wife has bragged constantly about how much they’re spending on the house, and how they’ve spent between $60-80K on kitchen appliances alone. They’ve also been going on 2-3 vacations a year since Covid started and are already planning another one. I bring this all up because here recently those same owners have been trying to throw our staff around and make them do jobs that aren’t theirs for no extra pay. Coming and taking our…

I have worked for a startup company for the past 10 months. I was originally hired as an independent contractor for one off gigs. About two months into the position, the role morphed into far more than I signed up for and began to take on the duties of an employee, but without any of the actual benefits of being one. They gave me a leadership position within the company, while I continued to pay thousands in self employment taxes each quarter because of the misclassification. The possibility of coming on as an employee was dangled in front of my face several times throughout the past 10 months. But when it became clear they would keep exploiting me as an “independent contractor“ for as long as I was willing to accept it, I asked to have a discussion with my boss. I did not ask for more money. I did…

Last year, my job started a contest that awarded the top 3 performers from each department with an all expenses paid trip to Hawaii. That, in and of itself, isn't bad. As far as some of the “rewards” I've seen given out on this subreddit, this is actually a pretty good incentive and reward for working hard. Furthermore, they made good on their promise, and the winners got to go on their trip earlier this week. Here's the depressing part. Someone on my team was one of the winners. There was a lot of excitement for him and the day before he was to leave for the trip, my supervisor asked if he was excited. His response: “I just can't wait to get it over with.” Obviously, we were confused on why he'd enter a free trip to Hawaii with the same enthusiasm as going to the dentist and his…

Anyone else noticing this? I order pizza from a chain (name is like: daddy + male person who hires prostitutes). I order through their website not through door dash. Yet the last few times it is always delivered by a door dash driver. (this is over a several month period I don't order pizza THAT much) I'm not a huge fan of 3rd party delivery. Its kind of a crap shoot in my city, lots of stolen, mishandled, or lost food. Luckily nothing has happened with my pizza deliveries but I just am curious about why this is even a thing? Are they really preferring to out source than pay their drivers a livable wage? What about my tip? Is the door dash driver getting that (all of it)? What about my “delivery fee”? Is the pizza place giving that to door dash or keeping it as their own profit?…