Antiwork

I’m not American and I acknowledge a lot of the issues I see posted here are obvs unique to the USA. But I wanted to drop by and say how much I appreciate this sub. I prob don’t agree with much of your politics, but most of what I see is just people being tired of being taken advantage of by people in a stronger negotiating position. I’ve worked for others before, and i have staff of my own now. No matter your opinion on socialism or capitalism or whatever, there’s simply no “ism” that should justify one human thinking it’s ok to treat another human like shit just because they can, whether that means underpaying, bullying them into working unreasonable hours or providing terrible conditions. I respect what you’re all posting, (except the obvs fakes) and have def got a few harrowing tales of my own of horrible bosses…

Any lawyers out there that could give some advice for a particularly tedious situation? Dm me for more info. Regarding an employer who cost me a job (intentionally via non compete cease and desist) and is now trying to prevent me from obtaining unemployment benefits

An Antiwork podcast would be nice to listen to while I serve my boomer masters.

So, I worked for [Werkstadt] in late '19, early 20. Just before Xmas 19, the shop we were moving to burnt down! Well, I was kept around until February, covering for other mechanics who were taking holidays. I was then told that they didn't have a place for me to work, and was let go with the promise that when the shop is rebuilt, I would be first in line for the job. Cut to June 21. New shop is finished, and I'm given a job in a workshop 60kms away. After 6 months, instead of ending my 'trial time', it's extended for two months, because my shop is getting a new manager. (In this time, I am also taught to use the computer to write work orders and order parts!) Well, first day my new manager arrives, I'm told to closeout my toolbox (inventory it and return it to…

Today, a coworker (call her Jane) had a medical emergency. Had to be put on a stretcher and ride the ambulance to the hospital. As a result, Jane got attendance points for not punching out before leaving and for being absent. Another coworker who called the ambulance and attended to Jane was late to punch in from break. He also got attendance points.

I’m 23 years old, I’ve been working at Walmart as a team lead in training for around 6 months, I just promoted myself to customer around 20 minutes ago and I’d like to share with you my experience working there. The job paid pretty well, working overnights I got paid 18.50, however the pay was not worth the emotional toll. our managers cut people’s hours after the holidays and if they cut them enough they get a pay raise on their salary by our store manager, so that means multiple people getting let go, people going entire weeks without being put on the schedule, my managers also ignored doctors notes for people being put on light duty and would just fire people who didn’t work fast enough with a broken arm/leg, they are now dealing with more than 6 lawsuits in less than 3 months with 24 requests from overnighters…

So I started my job back in middle of 2021. I am on a team of 3, with my other team members having been with the company 5 years, and 1 year. To preface this, the team before hand has not really had great luck with bosses for a couple years, lots of changes. When I joined, my boss was really excited to have me and as we started working together, he started to talk about how I would be a great fit to eventually lead the team. When it came to salary negotiations, he gave me a line about “there is likely going to be some movement here on the team soon, so I don’t want to overdo your raise now for you be way over paid when the ‘movement’ happens.” So we agreed on a decent raise, but not as much as I was hoping for. We just…