Antiwork

I have a salary job with tight deadlines that includes PTO. weekends and holidays. Was told if we can't “manage our time” then we need to work on our PTO days. I get 23 a year and took 2 days and got in trouble for being behind. My boss said she sometimes works 20 hours a day and seems to be fine with it. Also was told PTO will not be honored during high volume times or at least will need to work during if needed. What kind of precedent and moral is that sending. Other than this job will work you until your dead. L ..Corporate America at it's worst. I wish I could get by on an hourly job.

Two days before Christmas I quit my job, and as I work in Europe this is my last month of notice period. Yesterday I was told through some other people, not even my superiors, that I have to participate in an audit, while my whole department is some place nice discussing company culture, work-life balance and one complete day of for off-work activities. What is your opinion? Should I have been invited to this team event, as I still am a member of this team? Or I have been offered some compensation days? Or am I really supposed to work, not starting a fight now, and leave in peace?

This is the most unprofessional and chaotic work environment I have ever seen. I do not see any other reason someone would stay in this job besides sheer desperation. Today's absurd conversation has been the last straw for me, so I will join Hayden in putting in my two weeks. Luckily, you haven't scheduled me for the next two weeks anyway. You hire workers, yet don't schedule them, and expect them to fight each other for hours. I have never seen management so incapable and unprofessional as this company. Secondly, this group chat is the worst possible form of communication that could possibly be used. Hundreds of messages are sent a day, and we are expected to find a small margin of them relevant to us by scrolling through an endless feed of profanities and incompetence. Within this exponential minority of relevant messages, managers communicate horribly by holding hours above…

According to local laws, landlords have to signify rent increases by either priority mail or hand to hand with signatures. I live in a « used to be poor » neighbourhood and my landlord is lazy, only fixes bare minimum (he fixed the balcony when they were big holes in them, had water damage in the stairs for months, etc), so he simply puts the papers in the door frame without even knocking. Considering he also raises the rent 2-3 times the legal raises, and that I refused some because of it and he never does a second tentative being lazy (or having too many buildings, it’s one of those numbered company’s with dozens of buildings) so when I realized at 4 am all the papers we’re in the door of half the tenants, I removed the papers in the doors. Leases renew automatically here. So unless someone inquires to him directly…

Today I was fired from my remote supervisory position at a call center. I really didn’t care about my job or the company, but it was an easy position for $18/hr. My workload only took up about an hour of my 6 hour shift and I could essentially do whatever I pleased the rest of the day. For months now the company has been outsourcing customer service and tech support roles to the Philippines. Instead of having to pay the American employees $15/hr, they can get away with paying the Filipinos around $5/hr. I reckon they realized my position could be just as easily filled through outsourcing, knocking yet another wage from $18/hr to $5/hr, all for the CEO’s bottom dollar. I know this happens with most major companies, but it was the first time I experienced it first hand. Getting fired is not what bugs me. Even outsourcing itself…

So I was interviewing for the role of merchandising assistant store manager at Lowe’s. The recruiter told me it’s $65k annually (salaried) plus 30% bonus paid out in two installments every year. Decent pay for retail management, I have the experience, I hate my current job, why not! Anyway, we are about halfway through the Teams virtual interview and the General Manager says: “This is a 24/7/365 job. You are salaried. You are expected to crawl out of bed if you’re sick and show up anyway. If you have to do office work or something then so be it but you don’t have the luxury of calling out sick when you’re a manager. If you aren’t here, no one can cover for you. The expectation for this position is zero time missed no matter what unless it’s an approved vacation. Are you okay with these expectations?” I was pretty flabbergasted…

I’m quiting my job next week and I need a good way to end it because I am not giving my two week notice. Any advice on how to say it the right way?

Honestly, this is just a rant and I don’t even know if it belongs here. I have an OK job making $23/hr and it’s still not enough. Im done working tirelessly to just have a roof over my head. It would be seemingly easy to crash the housing market. If we could form a housing union in larger cities and decide to lockout ridiculous rent payments, it would destroy the market and make national news… “Millennials and those alike refuse to pay rent that costs twice as much as a mortgage”. So do they evict us by the thousands? Or does rent go back down to a reasonable price? Nobody should have to pay $1600/mo for an apartment in a city that’s barely on the map. I know this is flawed and unlikely, but a man can dream right?

So roughly 10 years ago I was working for this small family owned business that was so incredibly stingy and toxic. I have multiple stories about these effers. The story I’m thinking about in particular is when a coworker got into an accident and totaled her car. She was fine, but was lacking in transportation. So she and her family cooked barbecue and was selling by the plate, and the boss bought a few plates for himself and his family. Skip to a month or two later. And the boss asks her to stay late for some overtime and for whatever reason she doesn’t want to. Now personally unless I have plans I don’t mind staying late, especially if I get paid overtime and don’t have plans; however she didn’t want to. The effer boss throws the fact he bought those measly plates of barbecue in her face and she…