Antiwork

I have two degrees, a bachelor's degree in a scientific field from a top 20 University (Clemson) and an Associate's degree in computer science. I also served in the military (U.S. Marine Corps). I've never worked a job that a 16-year old couldn't get (except the Marine Corps. You can join at 17 with parental consent). The only job experience I have is in restaurants and retail, because that's where I worked through highschool and college due to the fact that they were the only businesses who would hire me. Every “entry-level position” I've tried to apply for requires five years of experience in the field. I've never made more than $12 dollars per hour and have never been offered full-time work. I'm also a straight and white male, so figure that one out. I'd love to get some of that “privilege” every tells me I'm supposed to have. I…

Hi, I'm currently working for a big tech company in France, and I have an internal job change planned for April 1st. However I was also prospecting for other jobs in parallel and got an offer that i'm seriously considering. Nothing wrong with my future position either. If i resign now I'll probably be blacklisted in my current company. Also I'll have to endure the legal 3 months (yes it's 3 months in France for engineers) before I leave. The company is big enough so that HR and managers are dehumanized AF. The engineers are also in high demand in the area. Did you find yourself in a similar position ? What would you do : use the job offer as leverage ? but I haven't started my new position, so it's not the best timing go full scorched earth and resign. these people aren't my friends. refuse the offer,…

back at it again with another sales post so after weeks of people not buying broken, discounted (but still pricey) items, my boss decided to take matters into his own hands and… make us walk around the store as a group. we all hated it and felt ridiculous. it was literally like a field trip to a lame museum. does he expect that to help? its wintertime (we've had some bad storms) and half of our stuff is damaged. nobody's going to buy this stuff. the discounts arent even good. we all hate his management style. its atrocious and ridiculous

Had a shift that had been rostered for 6 weeks. They don't normally roster me that far so I didn't check the next month. My friend is having a going away party for England and I don't think I'll be able to see him again. They're forcing me to stay and work so I'm going to be missing it. I'm so upset

I'm just curious on how they're allowed to do this. I live in Florida and work at a resort in the food and beverage dept as a chef. Every employee at this resort that DOESN'T work in food and beverage gets either 1 30min break or 3 7 min smoke breaks a shift, And they're entitled to it. Meaning if a Manager tries to make them work through it they can say no and just go on break. However, if you work for a restaurant in the resort or the food and beverage dept in general you get NOTHING. you're entitled to nothing. If they want to make you work 10-12 hours with no breaks they shamelessly will under the excuse of “it's a right to work state” it's fucking disgusting. I just want the same rights as other people in the same company I work for.

The manager (which makes me suspicious bc she didn't say this right away she waited til like 4pm to tell me even tho I got there at 10am yesterday). She told me I “almost caused 3 people to quit” basically last Thursday I hung out with my 2 friends who also work here (food place) one of my friends is having an issue with 2 managers (not this woman) and 1 coworker just saying all this rude stuff to her and behind her back, saying she “smells” WTF? And she doesn't, they are saying it to be rude. On Thursday she told me all of this and all i said to her (in person, while hanging out) said “i'm so sick of how those 2 managers act and I feel you on that coworker she's super rude.” All my friend did was tell the old manager we had (he left…

Long story short. A couple weeks ago, an older co-worker was overheard verbally threatening a younger co-worker (who is still in High School & this is his first job experience) behind his back. From what i understand, he basically said he wanted to go to this kid's house to punch his teeth in & continued to say some pretty nasty things about this kid throughout the rest of the week, mainly because he didn't like the kids work ethic. 2 incident reports were written up & given to HR after a supervisor was notified, but as far as I know nothing was really done. Is there anything I could do as a fellow employee, who doesn't really feel comfortable working with this older co-worker now, especially if there is a chance they could say similar things about me behind my back if they didn't like me for some reason? Update:…