Antiwork

Ok all, I have been a lurker for a while, and this is my first antiwork post. I love the mentality that we should “work to live, not live to work,” and I have always been pro union and believing that we should fight for better wages. My wife, on the other hand, is anti-union as she worked in finance for a manufacturing company that had one plant with and one without union workers, and she was telling me she hates the union workers because they are lazy and impossible to fire. She says that plant consistently underperforms compared to the non union plant and they can't hire any new people for the plant because the union workers are sucking up all the budget and the plant is operating at a net loss. So my question is this. What is the recommended solution to the problem of not being able…

Man I love freelancing, I said upfront that these guys are paying me for a site, 2hr min 35/hr (about half the market rate), these guys continue to send me Teams messages, emails, calls about changes then don't get me the shit for changes. For example they'll ask me to move an item like soap where it has a product name and picture, to a section of the site where everyone has a product name, picture, title, description, and social media link. Well they just say move the item with none of the extra shit, I go to move the item, I ask for the extra shit, “We'll have it tomorrow”. Great, startup tomorrow another hour is billed. I send them the bill after 30 hours because they don't like how the site looks (just started on it) and how much they've paid ( the last company, they ain't pay…

Alright it's finally time for me to RANT about where I work/ maybe worked? So today my coworker gets the forklift stuck. Comes to ask me to help pull it out with my jeep. I said “not untill a supervisor is present” as my superior comes over, helps us chain it up to my car. He is pushing on the forklift and something pops and my car starts making noise. We get the forklift out and my powersteering has gone out. I park the car tell my general manager that my manager above me was present and helped with this. Nothing will be coved on my vehicle from the company. Not only that but the past 2 years they have had me do many questionable and illegal things for them while holding raises and promotions over my head. The department of agriculture and the state police would love to hear…

Like, its my birthday coming up, I’m trying to get that day off since I want to spend some time with my family obviously, my team is currently with very low resources and two members are currently on holidays. Its one day, like.. How can’t they help just for one day? They are all very but very selfish, they just do their jobs without working in teams. I just feel so unmotivated and disappointed with my work right now and with the people I work with. Like I have 0 trust and no colleagues or friends nor in a work environment or outside (work-wise) they are all just too damn selfish. I am not spending my birthday at the office. Sorry not sorry.

So I work at Five Guys in NYC and last week one of my coworkers, lets call them Z, was in charge of the register. Z accidentally gave out the wrong change to a customer, shorting the register by $40. In response the general manager decided that the $40 would be recovered by taking away all of the employees tips we receive in cash. Normally i wouldn’t care because tip(once split) is about 1-3 dollars per employee but for some reason this aggravates me. All the crew members make 15/hr before nyc tax and taking out tips seems so low. Also as a company that boasts about not spending a dime on marketing and has millions in profits, like c’mon. Also is this illegal?

Like the title says. Every. Single. Time. I see or hear about anything remotely progressive about poor workplace conditions, low wages, billion-dollar multinational companies, and anti-competitive practices, there are always someone that says something incredibly ignorant like: Why don't you just find a new job?! You should just try negotiating your wage, liberal Just don't shop at [Insert company like Amazon, McDonalds, Walmart, etc.] if you don't like how they treat their workers. Vote with your dollar! Just get an education you lazy POS Clearly, people would rather just CoMpLaIn than do their jobs Unions just prop up workers who are lazy OH, you think companies would be run better as a co-op? You're stupid, remember Yugoslavia?! LIBERAL?!?!? I just gotta say, you need to think a little deeper. Why can you all just get it through your heads that just maybe everybody's life wasn't as easy as your own.…

I sometimes think I am losing my mind! I started at this new job about 6 months ago and initially all was well but things slowly started to devolve. I report to a married male manager who I suspect had taken a more than platonic liking to me. However I just kept things cool and remained professional. I feel like me not responding to him has caused him to treat me worse than the other people I work with. ( I am the only female btw). I always have strict boundaries and never mix business and pleasure. On my first few weeks there I went into my office and discreetly put his business card where only I could see with his cell and I did not think anything of it. A few weeks later, I noticed random shit in my office is always being moved around. Like yesterday I had…