Antiwork

This took place a few years ago, but I think y'all might enjoy it. I used to ref for an adult co-ed recreational league that had a variety of sports. I reffed almost every sport they offered during a particular season. I'll be honest and say I had a bit of a short temper, especially when it came to players arguing the rules with me, so a few times I'd get in yelling matches with them before ejecting them. That said, on this particular night in volleyball, everything was going fine. Then came the last game of the night. There was a particular volley where someone borderline-carried on a set, but I let it go on. Shortly after, I'm getting yelled at by the other team saying I'm playing favorites. My defense of “I'm just here to call the game and collect a paycheck” didn't defuse the situation. The next…

I’ve been with the company I work for for 16 years. It’s a dog daycare and kennel. I started at the bottom and I worked my way all the way up to operations manager. For a long time there were 3 operations managers total, including me. January 1st, one resigned leaving just me and one other manager (who happens to be married to the owner of the company). I did not get a raise when the manager resigned, but I did get a lot of extra responsibility. So typically me and the other manager alternate days, who is the primary manager of the day, who the staff contacts if they need anything. This was so one persons phone was not being bombarded more than the other, I am the more approachable manager. I am also 20 weeks pregnant, I may have some complications going on that I will have a…

I feel like after reading a lot of these stories I should have done something about this boss and I wish I would have. When I was 17 years old, I worked as a sushi waitress in my hometown. The boss was a total creep. He would pull “pranks” on the girl employees by grabbing their boobs and putting ice down their pants and panties. I know this doesn’t even sound believable, but it’s all 100% true unfortunately. We weren’t allowed breaks unless we smoked, so of course I picked up that habit (that took me almost 15 years to break) but that’s besides the point. This worst part of all was that his wife worked there and instead of helping any of us she would just talk down to us and belittle us. I specifically remember her grabbing my face and shoving lipstick on my face because she didn’t…

She quit 2 days ago after her manager asked her to take the door as she was inputting a different customer's order. When my sister told her she would after she was done, the manager told her to get the f*cking door and the customer always comes first. My sister rightly pointed out that she WAS CURRENTLY helping a customer, but the manager just yelled at her again. This same manager handled food with ungloved, unwashed hands, including sorting through a customer's chips one by one. As an added bonus, the place is infested with roaches. My sister watched as a roach crawled all around and INTO the BBQ sauces used for wings. She also had to stop an order from going out due to a roach being in the food, and the rest of the coworkers were just going to ignore it. I'm proud of my sister for knowing…