Antiwork

It's crazy, tens of thousands of hours of labor for a house. Or like 15-20 hours of work per week go to paying the house. 20 hours of work per week just for a roof over your head. Crazy.

Sometimes, I just don’t get it. Here on Reddit, you guys seem to think that having a job and earning money is like some sort of civil birth right. But here’s the thing… you have to earn it. Money is earned, not entitled. Before spitting out your drink and downvoting me with both hands, let me explain. Too many times I’ve had to deal with shitty employees and shitty attitudes right off the bat, before I even had a chance to say “hi, I’ll have a…” Jobs are tough sometimes. I have one too, I understand. I’ve been working in food service for almost 10 years now, I like to think I’ve seen it all. I’m about to become a supervisor at my store (pending some paperwork) so I’ve had to learn a lesson that many of these workers haven’t learned yet. You have to be presentable. Put a smile…

No fun 🙁

I worked for the largest security company in the US. You would think they'd have their act together. I came down with Covid. I tested at home. I sent in a picture of the test and they said that wasn't good enough. I was hospitalized that same day and sent them the paperwork and Doctor's name plus my MRN and discharge papers. That still was not enough. They demanded the UPC off the Covid test or I was fired. Since the Covid test was one of the free ones from the gov't all I had was a tracking number. They fired me. Now, they are demanding all their uniforms back. Their main office is over an hour drive away. I asked them to please send me a pre-paid FedEx label so I can just drop the box of uniforms at a local Fedex dropoff. The head of their Human Resources…

I’m so sick of dealing with other people’s anger, which seems to be half of the responsibility of every job. My boss gave me a scolding because I missed a meeting. Third time in a month. I told him I would catch up on the notes but that wasn’t enough, he doesn’t care about the material; his main worry is that I’m not “grinding” or “giving 110%” while my coworkers are. Why can’t someone be angry at me for a valid reason for once? I took your land. I spit in your mom’s face. I scratched your car. Instead I have some business major mad at me because I miss a meeting, or input some data the wrong way. Yeah buddy, I’m not good at this job. Fire me or keep it moving. At this point, I should go back to service or retail—at least I got paid more for…

I have been at my job for 3 months. A job I fell in love with. I can honestly say I have not been this happy at another job, and every day I thought about how grateful I was for this opportunity. I was in HR, so once they made the decision to do a reduction in force, I was included on helping process those lay offs and separations. It’s been about a week and things have started to settle from handling all of that, my boss asks me to jump on a zoom call where she lets me know they are letting me go as well. To say I am extremely disappointed, pissed off, and have a full on hate for the world is an understatement. I want to give up.

So I was changing the sign outside my job to let the world know that we are open on memorial day (cause you know living in the capitalistic dystopia that's only generous to give us Chrismas and black fri- I mean thanks giving off) and found out that I haven't been getting holiday pay. I don't know if anyone else has been screwed like this but just wanted it to be known incase your job also doesn't give holiday pay.