Antiwork

I do food deliveries for a small-ish company. In recent months, aside from cutting down my hours to the point I can no longer survive on my salary, they've been changing how we organize work and take contact with HR under the guise of “making it simpler and more user friendly for our workers”. By their declaration, it's a way to increase transparency and give us better work conditions. In truth, is a way to limit the ways we can contact the main office and/or make decisions about how the work is organized. Our job is completely independent. In an ideal situation, we don't even have to contact the office. We just turn on our app, receive the orders automatically and go do them. We're 99% on our own. However, I'm done with this. They keep changing things to basically turn us into just numbers and I'm not okay with…

I quit March 9th after hearing that my manager was going to fire me and another girl soon. I already have a new job, fine whatever. I went to get my final paychecks from before I quit. I was told by the supervisor on shift who had called the manager after unsuccessfully looking that they are locked up and the only one who can access them is my manager. And the only way I get them back is if I talk to my manager directly. I can’t come in during my managers hours as I work those hours as well. However the last time I spoke to her was the day I quit and she was screaming at me, calling me all sorts of names so I refuse to speak to her. I’m so mad. I live in NY so I think it’s illegal to even hold paychecks in general…

How do (we), as the workers facing impending return to office dates and “hybrid schedules” collectively pushback in a way they will listen? Stop telling us we just had the most productive and lucrative 2 years of operation then fucking change a main contributing factor to those results by hobbling our work/life balance. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. Your collaboration studies be damned.

It's crazy