Antiwork

Guys I'm very confused. UK here, my gf's got a new job recently, seems fine but she hasn't signed a contract when she started working?? Sounds weird to me, never heard of this before. She barely had an interview before her “trial day” to know what the pay is (minimum wage), and after the same it was just an informal “so, coming back tomorrow?”. “It's not in our company policy” that's what they say… what company policy? Are there company policies? Would be nice to know because there's that piece of paper with all the important stuff missing from my hands. And yet my gf is working right now, having no idea whatsoever how do holidays work, or how does her pension work, doesn't even know if she can change her status to “employed”. She's still getting paid, that's not a problem, but how do you assure it's fair, if…

My girlfriend currently is working at a chicken farm as a cleaner/driver for workers in the barns. They don't pay any overtime (due to a racist law from the 1930s agriculture doesn't have to pay overtime I guess) and they demand she works far past her scheduled time (off at 5:30 but instead gets off at more like 9:00) and now her manager is requiring her to go in for just 20 minutes on her day off to make a single pick up. No overtime, no compensation, the pay won't even cover gas.

Hey guys I wanted to share a personal experience. 6 months ago I was stuck in a job where I was expected to be available to work 24/7. I put in a lot of work. My boss would always tell me how valuable I was to the team but would reward my hard work with more work instead of raises and promotions. I was reassigned to fix a section of the factory that one of my coworkers was struggling to keep running, fixed it, and then she got a promotion. I asked my boss what I have to do to get a promotion and all I get is a very political answer. He didn't want to discuss it. He wanted to keep me in this same role indefinitely because I was good at it. Soon after I hit the breaking point. I was getting work related calls all weekend long…

So im entitled to a half hour lunch break but was told that since im the only employee i could t take it. First week they tried to not pay the half hour i couldnt leave. I told them to pay me for that half hour or ide quit, they did… then well ive been takeing lunch every day and now its paid. Since im the only employee at the location, theres fuck all goodwill can do to stop me, and they dont pay me enough to do much beyond showing up or following their illegal rules. Looks like i get paid lunches now at least as well, they can get fucked if they think im going 8h without food, and im not gonna have food delivered, that costs me money, so i just close, but make it look like its open to the cameras lol.

I work for my aunt and her small business. The office pays for my cellphone bill but I only work 12-15 hours per week. I don’t work Tuesday and Friday. The days I’m not in the office I typically get 2-5 calls from them asking to handle problems that come up. Sometimes I will and others times I just don’t want to for various reasons. She’s made comments about how I stopped answering office calls and removed an app on my phone that forwards call from customers even though she pays my phone bill. I seriously make less than $200 a week and feel that’s not enough compensation to deal with stuff outside of my 12 hours in the office. At that rate though I can’t afford to pay my own phone bill. Should I just deal with the issues so she doesn’t try to cut off my phone service…

I work a fully autonomous night shift delivery job. They started having us work Sunday nights but all the places we deliver to are closed on Sundays so there’s really no reason to wait until the evening to start the shift. (It’d be nice to be home Sunday evening to have dinner with my partner which I don’t get to do during the week.) My boss has never had issues with us coming in early to complete our deliveries and I’ve seen other people run their Sunday route earlier in the day so I didn’t think it would be a problem. A coworker who was already at work when I got there told me I should ask my boss before I left for my route because he had done it before and gotten yelled at. So, just to be cautious, I texted my boss to ask if I could run…

I have epilepsy anxiety, depression, adhd, and autism(what they once would refer to as “Aspergers”) and have had horrible experiences in the job market. I'm thinking of making a YouTube channel.

Idk if this is the right sub for this post so I apologize if it’s wrong. Anyways Exactly what the title says.. why do jobs make us feel so guilt ridden for calling out or missing days for actual legitimate reasons?? I would like to think my boss is understanding, but I still can’t help but feel like they don’t believe me when calling out of work for health concerns. Back story is I have a prior neck injury from my last desk job I was at. After leaving that job I took a break, and I haven’t had any neck problems since then until starting this new job as a receptionist. Not sure what I did but I can barley move from the pain but I went to work anyways with my neck messed up cause I felt bad for calling out previously. My boss knew I was not…