Antiwork

Minimum wage workers or working class people working shitty underpaid and overworked jobs for 30-40-50 years on end… How come the suicide rate isn't much higher? They function as slaves to the corps

I’m in Washington state, and realized I accrued quite a few hours regarding my part time employment. I work 23 hours a week and I’ve earned around 48 hours of paid and floating holiday hours. My contract is expiring in two months and I just noticed my hours. My employers didn’t tell me anything until I brought it up. I asked to take some time off and they told me they’d have to go to a “higher up” because I’m requesting a Friday off each week to offset my accrued hours. They weren’t going to let me take two weeks off at once so this was the best solution I could find. My reason was I’m in grad school and I have a heavy course load to take this semester. I teach kids for an after school program Monday-Friday btw and hours are tight. 4.5-5 hours a day. I have…

I work in a hospital. I understand sometimes we are short staffed. This past week, 3 people were on vacation and 3 people were on leave. That's 6 people out. With this information, I try and request 4 days off in June where 2 days weren't full to request and 2 days were full but were weekends and not everybody works weekends. Only 3 people are on vacation at that time and no one is on leave. It seemed like a reasonable request. However, it was denied because “too many people are off”. This is the same supervisor who gives her buddies 3 day weekends every other week. Too many people are off yet you had 6 people off last week and I mainly work the evening shift that isn't that staffed on weekends anyways. How is this fair? I'd understand if more people were out and they weren't weekends…

I literally just got a new job. Like just finished training, I'm a waitress, and I talked to my manager about how I'd only want 3, Maybe 4, shifts tops. They're shorter shifts 5 to 8 hours but it's still a lot after 3 days in a row. So here I am at 1am getting email notifications about how they last minute scheduled me for 5 days in a row new week. I'm honestly thinking about quitting even though it's only been two weeks.

I guess I'm just looking for hope here. I'm barely 18 years old and I think just beginning to emerge from the traumatized catatonic state I was in since a long time ago. I haven't had a real job since I was fifteen and the time has come when I really need to get one. I read through this subreddit full of people talking about how hopeless they are and how they're suicidal. I'm finally at a place where I can confidently say I'm doing better and do not want to die, but the prospect of pure misery until death is horrifying. I'm planning on going to barber school as a practical skill to keep me going while I figure out what the fuck I'm gonna do with my life. I bike for transportation and live at home which I don't hate so maybe I can just save for a…

I work in a Canadian school – compared to most people at least in North America, we have a good salary and great benefits. Not to mention a fairly strong union. I am the union rep at my school. Recently, a coworker of mine came to ask me about bereavement leave. Our CBA allows a decent number of days, but most of them have to be taken immediately. They wanted them moved later, to take care of things instead of grieving – they expected the death. Fair to ask, even though the CBA doesn't permit it – you never know. So I suggested they talk with admin, but not to expect anything. They come back to me, happily telling me the VP has agreed to move the bereavement days off. Right away I ask “do you have it in writing?”. They say no. I strongly suggest they get it. Well,…