Antiwork

(Throwaway account) So I took a home test over the weekend and I have COVID. First time getting it despite having both vaccines and the booster and I feel like shit. I’ve had it since Saturday and I can’t even stand or walk for long periods of time without feeling overheated and lightheaded. My work knows that I was exposed to COVID but they don’t know that I am infected yet. I need to take a test at a pharmacy and they will automatically send it to my work… I have to get tested before I can go to work tomorrow and if I’m positive I can’t work. The thing is, I don’t get sick pay. I don’t get PTO. I don’t get paid to be off work if I get COVID. So I’m currently living paycheck to paycheck and I can’t afford to miss a day of work much…

I work in a medical laboratory at a hospital. I'm a lab aide and currently in school to become a medical lab scientist. I really like my job but I can't stand my managers or a lot of the MLTS/MLS because they talk down to people a lot. Despite the fact that I, “don't have a degree” (I do! Just not in laboratory science) the majority of them can't or don't know how to do my responsibilities (which is fine! That's why I'm there I suppose, it just wouldn't hurt if they remembered that and treated me human) After my managers and higher paid coworkers were talking about how crazy it is that some people can't afford to get their car fixed. I stared at them like they had 15 heads because I finally realized they have literally zero idea what it means to be poor or to just live…

Preface: I work from home for a massive mortgage company based out of California. I am a Sr. Loan Processor. We have been demanded to work 6 day weeks ever since the Covid housing boom started – even though when we were hired we were promised we would only have to work 1 weekend per month. I have averaged 50+ hours a week, and give up a lot of my personal free time to be available nights and weekends as that's when borrowers are usually home and able to answer questions and submit documentation to complete their loans. I just got off of a conference call where 29 people including myself were mass fired. Apparently we don't even deserve a one on one anymore, as we were lead like lambs to the slaughter of our livelihoods. This was just one in a series of mass firings, but it really caught…