Antiwork

Now I have recurring dreams about working for the company I retired from, and being written up for: – having a heart attack on the job (that actually happened, and I was written up for leaving early without permission), – or having severe breathing difficulties on the job (I have IPF, which is a chronic, progressive and ultimately fatal lung disease, and I was put on a “performance improvement plan” (essentially probation) for having the gumption to cough, even though coughing goes along with IPF), – or not taking a laptop with me so I could continue working during a tornado warning (that happened in 2016 during a regional tornado outbreak, and we all gathered together in the tornado shelter with our laptops and were told to continue working). I wake up from these dreams absolutely livid, look around me, realize I'm in my bed and my partner is lying…

Just had an epiphany while reading through the contract at my new job. They have a clause that I have also ran across in the past and never paid much attention to. The clause is that anything you post on your personal social media accounts that they do not like can be cause for termination. They require that your posts contain “This is my personal opinion and not a reflection of my employers views”. My thought is that you post positive things and then end with This is my personal opinion and not a reflection of my employers view. Some examples include a “I think slavery is bad. This is my personal opinion and not a reflection of my employers view.” and “genocide is horrible. This is my personal opinion and not a reflection of my employers view.” Bonus points if you tag their company social media accounts so that…

My brother's Instagram page was shown to his boss, where his bio said “leftist skinhead”. For those that don't know, skinhead culture was founded by working class British mods and black Jamaican immigrants in the 60s. It's was a bunch of working class tough guys who hated cops and loved Jamaican music, but in the 70's and 80's neo nazis appropriated the style to intimidate people, because skinheads had a reputation for violence. Anyway, my brother's Instagram was showed to his boss by someone who works at the gym who is always causing drama. His boss went and showed and told all his coworkers before he was told about it, and now they are going to use Spyware to monitor what he posts, since his account is private. Is this legal?

My boss doesn't allow us to wear any kind of perfume or cologne, and if you wear body lotion it has to be fragrance free. Is this normal or just a whim of the manager? It's an office job where everyone has their own office and we don't work with public.

Hey I'm on the younger side, just curious I've been working at this job for 7 months now, giving my 2 weeks today for a better job, but my boss is a piece of shit, anyways the point is I feel like if they are contacted in the future, they're gonna talk shit about me and I don't wanna be denied to future jobs because of them, what do I do? I'm obviously not gonna use said boss as a reference but like what if the company trying to hire me looks up the company number, does that happen?

Tl,dr: Cant get a job that offers all the benefits I want because i never choose high paying jobs over quality of live jobs. — I never had the dream of becoming rich. It was always “if I have a roof over my head and can effort a decent living its enough for me.” I started at my company nearly 10 years ago and i managed to climb up the ladder, from temporary worker to worker to supervisor. I always choose my new position valuing time and quality of live over money. E.g. flexible working hours are more important for me than 100 bucks more or less. If I found position X more interesting then position Y I still would take position X, even if Y pays more. So now there is a open position in higher management and I fulfill the qualifications needed. I know the colleges and they…

The job kind of sucked anyway, today is my 3 month anniversary. I was doing fine until about 2 weeks ago when I was put into a new team. My new team leader was a witch with a broomstick up her arse who made a big deal out of a minor mistake I made and talked down to me like I was five years old. I never got any negative feedback from the previous 2 team leaders I had the whole time I was here. The stress and workload in the new team was more than double what I had in the old team. I was considering leaving anyway but I hadn't reached breaking point yet so I thought I'd stick it out. And it was a government job as well. Looks like the old trope about government jobs being cruisy and secure are all BS now. Fuck 'em.

Turns out I'm gonna be a father again and it sucks that I'm having a hard time being excited for the coming of another kiddo. I have been showing excitement and positivity for my wife around the house but the honest truth is for the past three mornings I've been crying on my way to work. I'm afraid of not being able to provide or make a decent enough living for us four off of my one income. I work a lot and barely get to see my firstborn daughter, I miss her a lot everyday and now I'll have to miss this child too. Life shouldn't feel like this, I should just get to be happy but ignoring the impending financial hardship is difficult.

…………. The woman was too stunned to speak