Antiwork

What the fuck mods?

In September 2020 I joined a top 5 university in Canada for a graduate program that pays me $25k a year (yeah I know shit money for Canadian but good money if you are from a sketchy place in Eastern Europe). I was told by my supervisor that “there is no point of me coming to Canada now and it is better for me to stay at home and do stuff online for the time being.” I was also told that my tuition which is ~$10k/year will be covered but I will have to pay them back once I reach here. Okay, makes sense right? I come to Canada after some time, I get the lump sum and pay my debts and go on with my life. I planned to come in Jan 2021 but he told me that “for my personal safety” it is better for me to stay…

Inside Weather is one of those “cool” and “hip” online furniture stores. “The Most Sustainable Furniture on the Internet”. They have a 365 day refund policy. All you have to do is pay an “environmental” fee. You get it. They're not like the other places. They care about the environment! Long story short, the customer service rep confirms multiple times the refund amount prior to going through with the refund. After the furniture is shipped back, it is now discovered there was a “miscalculation” and the refund amount is actually $600 less. The manager or higher up was almost proud to tell me that they fired the customer service rep for this mistake, like that was going to be the resolution I was seeking. So they fired the customer service rep for making a $600 “mistake” that they never actually honored. Pretty gross all around.

I called up yesterday by local burger chain in Australia. Ribs and burgers, I answered some questions on the phone then they sent me through email today, to do a 3 hour unpaid skilled assement. Which seems to be, me doing a free shift and mark off like a test for it. Is this even legal?? It seems a bit sketchy to me

I’ll start. My boss once called me at 9pm asking me to go to the grocery store and get her bananas, and to then deliver them to her house. Obviously I didn’t do it but that was the moment I knew I needed a new job.

So last year my partner and I moved to a city, a fairly large one, and we both got jobs. Partner works at a really nice grocery store that treats their workers fairly (it's not the best job but everyone is decent, pay is good, tips are good, no complaints from my partner) and I got a job at a large global advertising company (I will be extremely vague about my work because of a document I signed) that promised a good work/life balance, lots of time off, amazing benefits, and everyone I asked during my interview said that they loved the atmosphere of working at The Company. I was lied to. I would like to take some time now to talk a little about my past work experiences and schooling. I do not possess a university degree of any sorts, I do not have a college degree by most…

I just started working 2 months for a contracting company, straight out of college. I’m not not gonna mention any names, so this contracting company works for a BIG TECH company. So for the first months, everything is super slow, I do all my training, do everything my trainer says. Then for the past few weeks, they send me and all the new people who were completely new, say 1 – 2 months green to a different department of said big tech company, and they have us doing completely different work that is laborious as hell, completely different from what our job description. My co workers and I were super confused on why we were sent to this department, something along the lines of helping out a different contracting company and to show them how its done. So were very confused and worried about our job security. Now today I…