Antiwork

Hear me out… Let's put aside the fact that UG tuition fees is just a massive debt trap. It's the pathway to a spiral that people are usually stuck in for most of their lives. But, why are we calling for free tuition/state-sponsored tuition? Capitalism has changed the reasons people go to Universities. Through centuries of brain washing, we're taught that a university degree is a gateway to a good career, and being “successful”. Doesn't free tuition simply add to that narrative that an education is the means of getting a career? Doesn't free tuition simply shift the burden of payment from the individual to the state, while the reasons and benefits of both are in favour of capitalism? What's the solution? Well, when the first European University was set up in Bologna during the 11th century, only 3 subjects were taught. A university education was seen as a mark…

I don’t normally post here but I’m just excited! So the company I work for is notorious for miscommunication and terrible management. I’ve put up with it for almost two years and I’m done. Miscommunication happens in every part of the store and management. Due to miscommunication, I have been screamed at by several customers for things that are not my fault. Management prefers to protect the customers over my well-being. And I’m done. I had a customer yell at me because I had no idea she had an order to pick up (because no one tells me anything). I kept telling her “it’s not my station I do not know about your order or where it is but the person on that station will be back soon.” More yelling. I finally had enough and just left. Oh! And my department head was right there and could’ve helped me out…

At a place that has their own doctors on sight that you must go to before going to your own doctor?

That one mod whose name started with a K who had only recently joined the mod team is who I'm referring to. I'm writing an article about this subreddit for my school's paper and I want to pull a couple of quotes regarding how it was originally a more philosophical subreddit from their statement. Thanks!

Hi all, Recently it was brought to our staffs attention that we have employee files that list the good/bad/ugly on all of our staff and our manager noted that the treatment we get (I.e the opportunities and shifts we are given) are influenced by this. But we do not receive employee reviews, and she is denying us access to these files. Can’t find legality info on this online – located on east coast of Canada. Any help?

The industry is so desperate for workers and so desperate for service and retail yet still proceeds to treat us like trash. If we all just didn’t show up one day I feel like everyone would just explode. If we just picked a Saturday in the near future they couldn’t stop us. I’ve been thinking about it for a long time and I truly believe this is the only way to convince boomers that they need give the younger generation/service/retail workers better because we could just stop one day. The pay we currently get isn’t worth it, we have no benefits, no 401K yet our corporations treat us like shit and don’t defend us or let us talk back/defend our selves to unruly customers and Karen’s.

Long time lurker and supporter of this sub/movement (usually from my main account, but using this one for security purposes). Anyway! I work in the service industry in a town highly driven by tourism, so of course the last few months of our “off season” have been a huge struggle for everyone, myself included. At this establishment, we all share tips; we split cash at the end of each shift and the rest is supposedly divided into our checks. Outside of this, we are paid an hourly rate, with a guaranteed minimum with tips. MINIMUM. We can make more of our tips add up to more, however, it seems that our tips (even during peak season) are just enough to meet the minimum rate and not a cent more. When my manager quit, he told the owners it was due to tip theft and the response was that tips were…

I work in healthcare and currently in grad school for my MSN. I was set up to be the clinical educator for my unit. I would be in charge of the orientations, educating staff, and working on policies. The job requires a masters. Cool, working on that. Due to change in my units management, I knew I would be asked to staff on top of the clinical educator responsibilities. So like, 50+ hours. To add to it, there is no one currently in the position. AKA there’s no one to train me and I’d be flying by the seat of my pants. I inquired with HR about the pay. Reasonable thing to do, right? Before I continue, lemme tell you how the RN pay works: I get a base pay and then extra on the hour depending on what hoops I jump through. So the salary for the new job…