Antiwork

Decanting this with a friend, I remembered this topic comes up a lot. Do we have a census regarding companies and our work experiences? What about job seeking and walking into a toxic encounter. Just wondering about everyone's thoughts. Personally, I can't help think, if this was done more and more frequently,. We would get more positive change. Thoughts?

Has anyone else been the victim of a “culture fit” termination? I was just fired today for “not fitting in” and I'm not sure what to do. I unfortunately live in an at-will state.

i just want to get a feel of how poor some of you actually are. i have NO money invested in the market. i have NO savings.

Last year a pipe burst at my work site, as the only person qualified for operating the floor scrubbing machine, I had to spend 5 hours driving it around to suck up as much water as possible. I also had to teach the rest of the staff how to properly use the cleaning equipment eg what side the squeegy needs to be facing for optimum squeegying. The store I worked at opened 3 hours after it was supposed to due to the flooding. My area manager arrived an hour before the store opened, took some photos of the damage and noted how much work needed, instead of grabbing a mop or squeegy and just helping us. Jump to earlier this week and I find out from a former employee that I'm mates with that the area manager got all the praise and was rewarded gift cards for “being in the…

NOTE: This post is aimed at American small businesses. Read accordingly. Small businesses are not bad when they’re oh, say, your aunt’s Etsy store that sells custom mail boxes. Or a dog walking business you and your friend run. But a small shop or employer? No way, too much of a risk the employer will be an absolute nightmare. Half the stories here lately are about how small business owners weaponize their small status to guilt employees into accepting low wages and poor to no benefits. I have too much experience with this myself to pretend like small businesses are an automatic good for the country or for labor anymore. Small businesses depress wages by offering less than larger employers, which makes larger employers match their wages downward, which lowers the bar for everyone. Small businesses don’t offer benefits and leech off of public programs by encouraging poverty to flourish…

I thought I nailed my interview yesterday, but my friend (who works at the company) told me they're going with someone else. Apparently the hiring manager didn't like that I've been doing freelance work to support myself after losing my salaried position at the start of the pandemic. To him, that meant I “had an established customer base and a secondary income stream”; hiring me meant there was a risk that I could simply leave this job “when the going got tough” and “go back to freelancing full time”. He wanted “someone who is hungrier”. For the record, I am hungry as fuck. My “established freelance business” hasn't covered my monthly bills even once. I have depleted my entire savings account and racked up $8000 in credit card debt just sheltering/feeding myself. I fucking needed this job, man.