Antiwork

My daughter has run into a situation at work that I find a little bit baffling. She works as a standard W-2 employee Monday through Friday, 8 hours a day. The company (in CA) also requires that she does occasional overnights on call in which she takes a work phone home. She missed a call at 1 AM because she was sleeping and did not hear the phone ring and they are setting up a meeting with an HR rep to take corrective action. On top of this she does not get paid for that time on call but gets $100 stipend each month for it. Something about this is not sitting right with me, I have no real insight.

Edit: LIVEABLE wage. Today was really rough. I had a meeting with my boss and it really did not go well at all. Let me first say that I'm an interior house painter and we are usually working in the same town I live in. Around a 15-20 minute drive. Well this week my boss wanted me to go to this house that's an hour and a half away.. and we would be there for 2 weeks. I physically cannot afford the gas it takes to go there. I don't spend any money on anything except gas and bills, and our rent just increased by a whopping 300. As well as all of our other bills and goods bc of well inflation. Moving out is not an option because my parents are not around. We are on government assisted food stamps, and that is how we eat. So the meeting…

My boss called me into his office and sat me down, said that I had missed more work than everyone in his small family business combined which is an absolute lie and exaggeration. I missed 5 days from October to now plus I had a few days where I had doctor appointments to clear up what the pain in my stomach was. I came to work sick a couple of times and he sent me home saying I looked and sounded like crap. He let people come to work with Covid and I ended up catching that again in December. When I stayed home one day in December to recover from that, he texted me and offered me a full week off but I didn’t take him up on because I knew it would be a problem. His systems security guy missed 4 days in January because he himself had…

I work at a prominent North American university and I hold a position outside of academia so my role is subject to a lot of criticism and turnover. For my first 6 years I've struggled with my position often facing budget cuts, restructuring, and have been criticized both personally (for my clothes and out of work interests) and for my professional decisions. I felt discouraged & hated in what was supposed to be my forever home. It really took it's toll both psychologically and emotionally. This year by luck and just things working out I've been able to produce amazing results (I don't even understand how) but I was able to impress everyone and even used this new found appreciation to flirt with other similar positions and guess what? I managed to get offered a new 5 year (guaranteed) contract and now my plan is to do as little as…

And Yea… I smoke weed — On my leisurely time, it helps a lot with my anxiety. The reason this whole ordeal came about is because apparently I use the bathroom too much and they’ve been notified i’m possibly vaping in there which is absolutely FALSE. Ive been on a weight gain journey so i’ve been eating and drinking a lot as i’m severely underweight — So i tend to use the bathroom on average 3 times a day. I’ve never come into work high, I don’t smoke on the job, I’m excellent with my patients and I strive to go above and beyond to create the best environment for them. I’m a great worker… But i know if they drug test me it’s over. I just feel so defeated, this is the longest job i’ve kept so it started to feel like a personal achievement— I feel like i’m…

I work for one of the biggest banks in the country as a QA Tester with 18 years testing and analyzing experience. I’ve been here 9 years and have been 100% remote for 7 of them. Never been written up or asked for much, just kept my head down and worked. I was recently told that in a month I’ll be expected to be in office from now on after being told the new policies wouldn’t apply to me since I was remote before the pandemic. In the last 4 years my pay has increased .54 an hour and this year I wasn’t even given an increase. I didn’t complain tho! Just happy to have a job I liked that allowed me, a single mom if 3 under 11, to be able to avoid daycare costs, feed my kids, and live in a decent neighborhood. To be fair, I should…