Antiwork

Why the fuck would I want to record video responses to interview questions for an AI software to review and determine if I should get a real interview. It seems like a one sided process that only benefits the company because the candidate waste an hour of their time and can’t even ask about the role, company, or get a sense of the culture. This is the first time I have gotten a request to do this and just found it to be dehumanizing and disrespectful of the effort and time people put into applying for a job. The company that runs them is modernhire.com if y’all want to take a look at the bullshit they are selling to companies.

I am currently employed at a large company in Texas. I have been with the company for a little over 3 years now, and just recently I have been having some issues regarding underpayment of wages (this has never happened to me before, and they have always been on time with full pay before this). The underpayment was roughly equal to around half my usual paystub. My leave started on January 14th and ended on February 14th. We are paid semi-monthly, so the two payments from end of January and February 15th were both roughly half of my typical salary. I have gone through the normal routes of HR in an attempt to pay back wages owed to me, but after many ignored emails and contact attempts, they finally remedied the underpayment ~45 days later. The DPC (Disability Pay Continuance) plan I am enrolled in guarantees 100% of “base salary…

Had a meeting Monday about some emails a client sent to me because he was very upset. We manage property for out of state owners, these 2 had been sitting empty for a while due to the owner not answering my emails. My boss made it clear that I am to email everyone with vacant property every Friday. I was totally on board, tbf he has mentioned a couple times I need to stay on top of follow ups. But with how busy we've been with 700 new properties in the last year alone on top of the 1200 we already managed, it slipped my mind The meeting went ok at first, but my boss kept going on about it and working himself up. Finally he commented that if it kept happening they'd have to offer these clients discounts and “take it from my pay”. This is where I finally…

My former employer used to track the cost of every mistake that every employee made (except senior management of course) in a spreadsheet with details about their screwups. This even included mistakes as simple as if someone accidentally printed off the wrong report, they would actually track the cost of the printer paper and ink. Then they would share this spreadsheet with all the staff to shame the employees and used it as a reason to cut bonuses for the whole company (again, except senior management) and to not give anyone raises that year. The total monetary value of the mistakes they were tracking came to less than the cost of one of the owner’s “business” trips at a five-star hotel in NYC. Then they wondered why over 60% of their staff quit within the next six months.

I have been studying psychology for over 10 years and have a master's in industrial organizational psychology. One thing that is pretty universal is that people desire control. It's mainly based on safety in an evolutionary sense. If you lack control, that means someone else has it, and they can dictate your fate. A great example of this is police officers. Most police officers are raised in strict households. They grow up with authoritarian parents who are controlling and demanding. So they learn power dynamics at an early age. When they grow up, they seek the power that their parents held over them. A lot of it is, “now it's my turn.” Again, they feel safer knowing they are in control. This is also bullying 101 right here. A bully's behavior is directly correlated to this parenting style. Authoritative parenting is different because it utilizes authority, it doesn't abuse it.…

My boss said this to me after he found out I'm in the union. I really wanted to reply with ” if you were a good boss we wouldn't have to.” I was also wearing the facemask the union provided as was told to “get that shit off my face.”