Antiwork

At least a dozen “You lazy young people” boomers, my dumbass manager who actively ignores his job, and corporate that literally sees us as numbers. Just finished an hour long conversation/debate with a coworker talking about how people my age (Early 20s) are lazy and homeless because of it. Talking about how “The governments handouts made people quit”. I shared my own story about being without work for two months. Putting in applications every day, making phone calls every day, working for it every day. Rewrote my resume dozens of times. Nothing for 2 months. Completely dodged it. I said the words “I want to see the muhfucker out there living comfortably on a quarter of what I make.” $2,200/4 = $550 a month. Who? Where? Just… unbelievable how people think. Seeing it for months and still can't believe it.

Decided Ive had enough of 17 hour workdays. I’ve got so much PTO and while I could get a payout, I’ve found a lot of companies to dick around with that and I’m not interested in the legal chasing. So my thought is I’m going to enjoy my life of many months of PTO. Quit without notice upon my “return”. If they don’t like it, they’ll fire me and then I can cash out my PTO AND collect unemployment until my next role starts Anyone here ever do this or find it unwise? Edit: I don’t mean the no notice particularly, I’m talking about exhausting months of PTO first lol. Thanks folks

I work in the grocery department in a decent sized supermarket in CA for $16/hour. Not good at all where I live. Anyway, the store manager told me the other day they were going to start cross training me in the vitamins department. I know nothing about vitamins. It went terribly but was told I’d improve with time. I thought it was just basically seeing what’s low and restocking etc, but no. There were tons of questions from customers as if I was a doctor!!! It was awful! “I’ve been having X symptoms for the past few days, what do you think it is and what should I take?” “My four year olds bottom is always itchy he says. Is it worms or something else?” “Look at this rash, what is it and what can I take?” I’ve never been more baffled in my life. I just told them sorry…

I got this job for the county as a legal assistant for the public defender superior court unit. All new county employees have to be on a 6 month probation period. I can’t take PTO at all but I still accumulate. I can use sick time but not quite often because it looks bad. I’ve had to cancel and reschedule doctor appointments. In my unit there are 4 legal assistants assisting about 2-4 attorneys each. It’s about 50 cases per attorney. Today two of my coworkers proudly announced they’re taking Friday off as vacation day. Meanwhile me and my other coworker who’s also new will have to endure the overwhelming of work and calls assisting the other attorneys that my coworkers assist. This means I have to take a client’s call on behalf of my other coworkers. We don’t know crap about those cases of course. That’s 5 attorney each…

When all of your good memories are from 15-20 years ago before you had to commit your existence to monotony. Bonus points if you’re daydreaming at work about a good time you’ve had with friends years ago like going to a concert or something, and then you’re approached by your boss inquiring about technical reports.

In all U.S. states you have a legal right to reveal and discuss your pay and benefits with other co-workers and it is illegal for your employer to fire, discipline or otherwise disadvantage you for it. There is also a right to promote or discuss unionization, or to engage in any sort of discussion of working conditions in the workplace, and again your employer cannot discipline you. This is under a law called the NLRA. Employers may try to ignore that law, though, and the government can't be trusted to always uphold these rights. So also be wise. Also, under the FLSA law, a company is legally required to pay your regular wages multiplied by 1.5 for each hour of work above 40 hours a week for most jobs. This also applies to salaried white collar workers. But not to salaried workers who work jobs on a specific list and…