Antiwork

Basically what the title says. My (now former) boss asked me to reverse the date order on an Excel sheet we had, so instead of it being from Feb-May, it would be May-Feb. Initially I’d asked if I could keep it that way since it was easier for me to keep track, but her response was “it’s not easy for me to keep track, so change it”. This was on Monday, and there were a million other things that took priority over this, so I decided I would fix it during my shift today. Well. I walked in this morning and not even five minutes after walking in I was asked to come into the front office, where I was sat down, thanked for my work, and fired. When I asked why, I was told it was because I “didn’t follow protocol”. This all happened in front of another coworker…

Working from home the last year and a half. Now they want us all back in their super awesome office so they can shoot nerf guns at me! Ive been a dick to customers ever since this news came out. Don't want me happy? Don't expect me to be happy when dealing with customers.

I didn’t get fired—- yet. I made a post about getting suspended a week ago, they said one more time or “customer complaint” I’m terminated. Which isn’t fair because the last two where false complaints. They Might as well have terminated me because Lord knows half these rich people love to ruin poor peoples lives… like I can’t even wear my hat (covering up matted hair from the Santa hat I wore) w/o Karen’s getting triggered.

I have been working from home since the Covid stared and now it has been already 2+ years. I work in software development and basically all I need is my PC and MS Teams. The company seems to have accepted that remote working is here to stay and has not made any plans yet about bringing us back. There has not been any major drop in productivity and everyone (i.e., management) is happy with how things turned out. There have been several surveys in the meantime about working from home and most of employees are happy with it and reasons for it are mainly spending more time with family and spending less time on a daily commute. HR and management have done some trainings about work-life balance and that is all. Everything is fine and keep-up-the good work But lately I am thinking more and more about how there aren’t…

I have only had a handful of phone interviews since April last year which of course is the only time in my life I’ve ever had phone interviews. Each time I’d apply, get an email to setup an interview time, the HR person would call on said date/time and conduct the same in person interview questions via phone. Not complicated right? Ok what are the odds that two different prospective employers ghosted me on the same day? I sent both of them follow up emails with no response. It’s already past 9am today still with no response from either. Do I send another follow up emails to them? What the fuck man. I swear my entire job hunt has been a nightmare. Has this ever happened to anyone else? What did you do? Before I get a flood of did they have the right number blah blah blah yes dude…

I supervised over 100 college students for evening and weekend events for over 4 years. We used When to Work which basically uses a computer to schedule people when they say they CAN work. You enter shift times, and it schedules people. If they set their availability wrong they are responsible for the shift. If an emergency comes up, we use the system to find a sub. It is so easy, and solves so many issues. I just don't understand why so many of you still deal with manual scheduling that can become problematic with lazy managers that don't think ahead.

So my best friend for a long time is working in the same field as me now and has a same level job. I earn 5 times his salary with basically the same job and experience. I work 8 hours a day on a flexible basis, he has minimum 2 hours a day to do and basically no limit. This ends up in him working 6 to 9(pm) everyday, even weekends, holiday and during a trip even if he took a day off. His manager expects him to do this work and also not to tell HR that he his doing so much because -jokingly- “then he would maybe get a raise and they couldn't be able to afford such an amazing employee”. He has no rights to get any overtime back since it is stated in his contract and he doesn't inform HR. I don't do overtime except if…