Antiwork

This job isn't the greatest, they promised me a raise in may when I finished my training and now their saying I may not get it til September because they don't have enough people to cover in order to do any training. And I officially got a confirmation from another manager from another store saying “we always say that, that's rite aid for you we use that slogan to hire newbies but we never say when they'll finish the training this making them stay for at least a year” Man, this broke my heart…I was beginning to like this company but the pay is so low, I'm reconsidering this job and looking for another. But what really got to me is this morning I come in to work and my other coworker and the pharmacist is there. I live close and I was scheduled to work morning, I love mornings…

I'm going to preface this with I have a couple of chronic illnesses that don't allow me to work physical jobs. I can't even stand for long periods of time so I can't work in retail/food. Onto my tale: I have a part-time job and am on my state's Medicaid health insurance. I got offered a side gig, ended up doing well, and was given more assignments. I'm all excited thinking maybe I'll dig my way out of the hole that is my life, but NOPE! Instead, I'll make like $100 or $200 over the eligible amount of income for my insurance. This means I would have to spend money on insurance and pay for medication which I get free right now. I take a lot of meds. So essentially I'd be working for nothing, so I have to turn down work to keep my health the way it is…

Recruiters and “hiring managers”: How many people are you haphazardly throwing into the garbage with ATS? Who's left to configure these systems anyway, the unpaid HR intern assigned to menial office support functions? Do we need to have you all licensed and regulated by DFPR's like Realtors? Seriously, it's time to wake up now. There's an entire swath of people migrating from one vertical to another who's experiences and skills will port but ATS trashes them. Super cool story- let's repeat that 200 x's because we like racing ticking clocks. You're all reading way too much into a piece of paper and missing the long-term potential over daftness. Tone deaf much? Perhaps someone receiving those tickets could be intelligent enough to learn how to use it? Should we also list that we know the alphabet because it shows communication skills? By all means, keep those ATS systems tossing people right…

Pretty self explanatory. I absolutely Loathe what I do I work in a call centre for a large internet service provider and I hate every single day I have to go to work and listen to so many awful people tell me how much they hate me and think I'm stupid I even had one woman tell me she wished I would get Cancer!!! It takes a toll and on top of this my bosses are always having a head over my shoulder watching every move I make listening to my calls and giving me criticism on all that I do so the last few weeks I've been having frequent days off and now I'm in danger of losing my ability to pay rent have food etc. I was homeless before I don't want to be again but good lord I hate every day of this job. Just a rant.

So I just saw a post on personality tests and I figured I would post a little story about them. Back when I was in high school I was looking for a job and the job market was a little rough at the time. I had a friend that worked at Albertsons (grocery store) and her mom also worked there. She told me to just “go in and take the test as many times as you want and just answer the questions as if you were the perfect little unicorn slave employee they want. I applied everyday for a month”. After I took the test repeatedly for a month or two and I finally got called for an interview during which I managed to get a good look at the results of the test and they used a scoring system. I scored a 92 before they even called me. There…

I’d really like to know in the year of 2022 why some employers have people send in resumes, only to have you fill out a paper application. This mainly applies to food places. For instance, I had a job interview today at a restaurant. Mind you I put in the application and resume at this restaurant 6 months to a year ago. Anyways, I get there, and the manager ask me to fill out a paper application so I did, then when he started interviewing me he would mention or ask things that were clearly on the resume I sent him. I just want to understand why some places mainly food places do this cause it makes no sense to me.

I used to work in childcare but found the management awful and felt as though they were sucking the life out of me for their own profit, disregarding what’s best for the children and the workers for what’s better for their bottom line. One of the final straws for me was when the bosses and owner booked themselves a trip to Italy while most of us couldn’t get our leave approved, even when notifying them 6 months in advance. I want to re enter the workforce again and on an “ethical jobs” website I came across a “profit for purpose” workplace. Can anyone tell me anything more about this? Is it any better or just a repackaged “for profit” company? I know they do more work in the wider community from their website. I’ve heard working for a “non for profit” can be soul sucking in different ways, is this…

So I am 25 and have been working crappy jobs since I was 14. I recently left callcenter hell and started working at a bowling alley. At first I was so excited and I like the work. But they refuse to give me a break during my shift. They put me on the schedule till 23:30 but they know it is always at least 00:30. They are supposed to give me a 30 minute break when I work more than 5,5 hours. So because they schedule me an hour less than I actually work they take my right for a break. I almost fainted today because I had low blood sugar. I told them my dog died yesterday and that I really need a 10 minute break in between and they still refused me. I want to cry. All this for 10 euros an hour