Antiwork

I work in a warehouse (lots of digits multi multi digit dollar company) where I have been told because it’s a warehouse we don’t do disability accommodations. It’s a lot of manual labor with the usual heavy equipment warehouses the size of a couple football fields have. I got cancer & worked through it. No choice. Work or be homeless. I have Metastatic cancer. So chemo radiation surgery meds more chemo. I’m not dead. Almost a couple times from the treatments. And the treatments have left me a wreck. Short term disability tried to talk me into going fully disabled But who can live on that? So I try to manage. Fortunately my expertise is behind a computer & doing stats & inventory. But lately management wants me on the floor lifting boxes & running the heavy hard hat required equipment And no medical accommodations. It isn’t that I will…

TLDR: HR deactivated my work accounts and tried to tell me I had to repay 12 weeks salary (from parental leave), but because I forwarded an email to my personal account with the evidence to prove I didn't need to repay the money, I shut the conversation down. I was working for the county, and they had a parental leave policy that would pay you for 12 weeks after having a new child, but you had a 6 month requirement to keep working or repay the money you received from the “benefit”. To be honest, I am pretty sure this is defined as slavery under the Peonage Abolition Act/13th Amendment, but I'm no lawyer; a lawyer specializing is anti-slavery laws would have a better idea than me… yet I digress… I still get a little emotional about the whole thing. When my daughter was born, I had a conversation with…

I went through a long gap after a bad layoff from a company I was with for 19 years. New management came in and purged anyone with over 10years with the company (not execs of course). Apparently we were dead weight and they needed a fresh outlook. After jumping straight into job hunt mode before it was so rosy I found things had changed dramatically with getting a job. Job sites were useless, computer screening had broken that system with uncontrolled illegal filtering requiring you to be a god to get hired. The amount of harassment phone interviews was insane. 99.9% of the phone interviews I did were dead ends. I actually had a interview with a computer AI once, strangely one of the more interesting ones. Most were just calling to meet their quota. gotta beat the filters I found out that experience and age were huge red flags.…

Last week, we had a meeting where our boss talked about graffiti in the bathroom, how it was unacceptable, anyone caught will be sent home, etc etc. Then, he put a security guard outside the bathroom, and we now have to give the guard our name before going to take a leak. And, as if that wasn't enough, it's only the men's room. No security guard for the ladies. I'm pretty sure qualifies as workplace discrimination.