Antiwork

I work at Kumun in Japan. Teaching English and Math. I always come into work 30-45 minutes early, and unpaid, mostly because I know it’s difficult to get things organized and I want to make things easier for my boss. I don’t start work until four pm. Anyway last night in Japan there was a huge earthquake. My window broke so spent a lot of time this morning and afternoon talking to my landlord and getting it repaired. I walked until work at 3:55 (still early). My boss immediately started yelling at me demanding to know why I was late. That things were still not clean and organized and that I was being selfish. Once I explained that I wasn’t late and that I come in early just to be nice she started ranting again. She told me that tomorrow (Friday) she expects me there at the normal (early) time.…

In the middle of a busy clinic at our practice, I got pulled in by my manager to speak to HR, who must have made a SPECIAL TRIP because she lives several states away, and told I was being 'investigated' for discussing wages with my other employees. She told me it was against company policy to discuss wages. Me: That's illegal. Them: three slow, long seconds of staring at me blankly Uh… Me: That's an illegal policy to have. The right to discuss wages is a right protected by the National Labor Relations Board. I used to be in a union. I know this. HR: Oh, this is news to me! I have been working HR for 18 years and I never knew that. Haha. Well try not to do it anyway, it makes people upset, haha. Me: People are entitled to their opinions about what their work is worth.…

Dear employer, just because I’m a man does not mean it’s okay to ask me to move heavy furniture to the curb. It’s heavy and I don’t feel like burning those calories. I wear pressed dress shirts and tuck them into khaki pants. The requests are sexist and not within my job description. Thx!!

I work in a high school special education room as a paraprofessional. I just received my “Letter of Intent” from the superintendent's office about whether I want to be re-considered for my position or not. There's an option stating that I'm undecided and would like a conference, however, I'm scared to choose that one. My reasoning behind picking that choice is because of my pay. I make $1155 a month, which after deductions, my bring home is $939. I'm fortunate enough, at the moment, to only have electric and internet that I really have to pay, as well as normal household and pet expenses. But, by next school year I will most likely have rent or a mortgage to pay and it scares me to death because I am a single mother trying to make it on less than slave wages. I feel very stuck between a rock and hard…

There is a yearly local festival coming up next month in the little town I work in. It’s during the weekend. I found out my office props up a tent and hands out stuff to passerby’s at the festival. I really, REALLY do not want to attend this. I know for certain they attend on that Saturday. Not sure if they also attend on that Sunday. Anyway, I work 5 days a week, 8 hours a day. I am salary which means I probably will not even get paid extra for attending. Even if I do, I am not in the mood to drive into town, fight festival traffic, and hand out flyers and hot dogs to strangers all day on my day off. And I HATE festivals anyway. I cannot stand crowds. Unless I am at a concert I try to avoid crowds as much as possible. I wouldn’t…

I’m not sure if it’s just me lately but is bad that I miss pandemic (not to be inconsiderate I understand that everyone had different experiences some good and some horrible)? I had free time for once, the things that mattered I had time for, I could spend time with my loved ones again and not feel like every waking minute I have to be somewhere, doing something, or even planning todo something. Ever since going back to a job. I’ve been exhausted every single day, I can barely get a good night worth of sleep, trying to get a job had been more stressful than actually having a job, I had my hours cut, can’t even make rent to the point I work 8 hour day then Uber eats after 4 hours to hopefully make ends meet. I’m 25 and I feel burnt out every single day. Im just…

Title says most of it. But I have 10 more weeks with my 9-5 and I have over 80 hours of sick time that I want to use before I leave. What are some creative ways to use all my sick hours before leaving? My manager is pretty cool and will give me the time off I need but what some of the excuses I should say?!