Antiwork

My roommate tested positive for covid the other week, and, not wanting to expose the clients I work for, I told my supervisor. Since that day, I've been working from home. I learned, midway through my work quarantine, I'm only working my normal full-time hours for the first 5 days. Company policy is the last 8 workdays of my quarantine, I work less than half-time (3.5hrs/day) and get paid accordingly. So for more than a week, I've taken a significant paycut. My supervisor also informed me I could use my sick time to make up for (some of the) lost hours. Here's where the issues pile up for me: we only get a measly 6 sick days per year… so yeah, I applied all of the 3.something hours of sick time I had to the last pay period, which hardly makes a dent in the hours of pay I'm not…

The New Deal sucked and workers got played. https://www.marxists.org/subject/left-wing/icc/1934/12/new-deal.htm Roosevelt, after helping to win the war to “make the World Safe for Democracy”, returned to civilian life, resuming his law practice. At Alfred E. Smith's behest, he reentered politics, gaining the governorship of New York in 1928, and again in ’30. During this period, the Governor discovered he possessed a remarkable radio voice, for a politician. From such humble beginnings sprang that great American Institution: Intimate Fireside Chats With The President (through the courtesy of both broadcasting systems). His administration as governor, in spite of press-agency to the contrary, shows no benefits for labor. The legislation to which Roosevelt points with greatest pride as a boon to labor, the New York State Old Age Pension Act, doesn’t benefit labor at all. Not only must applicants be 70 years or over (surely no help to most workers who never reach 60,…

So I opened my bank account this morning to realize my supervisor had not uodated my timesheet for last pay period…. and I was paid $1000 more than I should have been. I am very conflicted about this because my last day is next Friday. I know that legally they can reclaim the money, but morally I am leaning towards taking it. They've abused me my entire time here and that's why I quit. Not sure what to do.

I received an email today at work. An excerpt from it reads “…we have an employee who failed to ask for today off prior to a text message this morning. Therefore, the decision was made to dock him 8 hours regular pay and 1 hour at 1.5 times his normal rate.” Edit: I misjudged too soon. This seems legitimate, just worded so oddly in the email. Employee didn’t work today and his payroll covered today, so the company had to remove the hours from todays check basically.

I was walking towards the door and my boss and co-worker was standing there. I said hello and he also said hello and then stopped me in my tracks, told me to hand over my badge and computer. My co-worker started laughing and said here, take mine. It’s a good time to get fired, 60% unemployment rate. As soon as I was going to give him badge, he laughed and ran back inside the building. This isn’t funny by no means.