Antiwork

“Perhaps just as a reminder – you are contracted to work from the office, and not from home. Our contracts with our clients also requires staff to work in a managed office environment, and indeed, we incur substantial costs and our client have invested in a dedicated internet link between our respective offices in order to improve productivity and user connectivity experience. Covid was an exception to this but as we have been out of the high risk levels of Covid, we are not allowing working from home for personal reasons. We were being inundated in staff wanting to work from home for short periods for personal reasons (like car trouble), which were not justified at all so we had to draw a hard line with these requests. In the Maddocks team itself, -Manager- has received numerous requests from people asking to work from home which has been declined. We…

r/antiwork was “featured” in this YT video, we were called the worst place on the internet. Not sure if he meant Reddit in general or this sub specifically. But the video was still interesting and not wrong.

This is the second time hearing that the manager would dock hours if I leave early even though there's nothing left to do.

Some years ago I was working at a natural grocer in the PNW. I had a boss who would make fun of a disabled dishwasher, use homophobic slurs, and was just an all-around asshat. I went to HR and told the single HR person we had. I explained explicitly I wanted to remain anonymous because he was the type to retaliate and make life a living hell for anyone he didn’t like. She agreed to anonymity. Several days later I get called into the office. There’s the HR manager and my manager, sitting with an empty chair. HR lady explains we need to “clear the air” and this is when my boss starts unloading on me about how he thought I could take a joke, about how when he was making fun of the disabled dishwasher he thought we were “friends” and could be himself. I’d never given him any…

I get mad at gullible people on this sub who take these posts seriously

Hello all. I am about to graduate from undergrad. I am in the final stages of interviewing for a few potential jobs. They start at 40k a year and then at 3,6, and 12 months they offer raises. It’s a training based job. Not that I’m saying that isn’t high for most or anything. But the job does require me to relocate and travel between cities for the schooling part and work part. I could be placed working somewhere on the east coast and have to come back to the west coast every 1-2 months. Our assignments are at differing locations within a large region everyday (so drivable but could be like 2-3 hrs out) I currently pay rent for my apartment that is 4 hrs away, my car, groceries and my cat. I make about half of that currently. I really stretch things as is. But even if I…

I went job hunting and saw an ad saying “we will beat your pay' and so I went in and went through the interviewing process, I brought the ad up and assumed they'd give me more than my pay since it said “beat your pay” but ig essentially it was matching so they agreed to match my 12 dollar pay and I prior told them part time due to health issues of a family member but was absolved from needing to care for them so I told them next day I would like full time and they said I can get it, and so I started working, my training week went fine but sometime in the middle of my next week I noticed my pay was 11.75, and that my hours were 20 a week or less (noticed the hours part on my 3rd week) so I talked to my…

[ ] Well this is going to be a rant but that’s what this medium is for. So I was on medical leave from my job. I went to get my medicine that I need to live and was told that my insurance was canceled In 2016. Um bullshit the same card was valid last month. Went to my medical insurance website to see that my policy was canceled. I called my company and was told that since I have been on FMLA for over 3 months that they canceled my insurance and I have to buy COBRA. They never told/sent the paperwork. I had just sent them a check for insurance. I informed her that I have already sent in the return to work paperwork. So my company policy is that my insurance will be reinstated one month after my first day back to work (it’s a company insurance…