Antiwork

I work in a restaurant in the UK, and we had a lot of new manager changes recently. The job isn’t too difficult but it pays slightly less than some other places in the area, but I don’t mind working here as I know the place back to front, and the slight pay increase hasn’t been worth the effort of trying to work somewhere else. We had a ‘team meeting’ a few days ago, and one of my colleagues half jokingly brought up the fact we are paid less than a few other restaurants in our area. The new manager went crazy at this girl. He started saying we should ‘have enough pride in our company to not say such things’, and that working for the company should be ‘incentive enough’. Safe to say my jaw dropped. Will be handing in my notice in due course.

Just a thought: If jobs are posted as remote only and the company later requires in-person work, can/should employees request a pay increase to account for the cost of commuting that wasn't previously calculated into their compensation package?

I started putting things like, “I actually want to work!” In my cover letters and I swear, it's like fuckin magic. Try it. Say the magic words.

tl:dr – Supervisor hadn't heard from any other employee about why they'd quit (rotten manager) so he was glad to get my report. I'm 57, so I don't put up with shit. I got a job that promised to be physically demanding, but I was willing to give it a shot. The supervisor hired me, but he was off-site, so I reported to the shop manager. There were 3 other employees, but one I never met because I only lasted 5 days. The first red flag was my first day–everybody else had called off so it was just me and manager. He was pretty nice in explaining how things worked, and I felt like I did a good job. For example, he gave me a stack of boards to fix and i fixed them all by lunchtime. He commented, “Boy, i thought that would take all day! Let's go to…

I worked at a retail job where you had to request days off a month in advance. Knowing this, I planned the days I needed off for the entire summer and submitted them as early as possible. No request was earlier than a month and a few dates were requested off 3+ months in advance. I requested about 7 days in total across 4 months. My manager declined every single day I requested off saying the summer is too busy. I submitted every day again and emailed him saying that my family is more important than my job and if I can’t have these days that I’ve requested well within the company’s required timeline that I would quit. He approved the days off but would barely speak to me the rest of the year. Happy to say I no longer work there.