Antiwork

Hello everyone. Having a slight issue at work. Title sort of explains it. Every week on Wednesday we get a schedule for the weekend emailed to us. I work in a factory on third shift. When I received the schedule in my email on Wednesday it stated I did not work the weekend. So naturally as an adult who does things, I made plans. On Thursday afternoon I opened my work email to another email stating that the one side of the plant has decided it needs to run this weekend to complete a product run. In the email it stated I now have to come in Friday night because the other employee who has lower seniority than me is on vacation and I’m next in line. Normally, this wouldn’t bother me. My problem is I received the schedule telling me I was off, then after a day and a…

I've seen it happen so many times. A worker is promoted to manager and as soon as that happens their mind seem to switch an all empathy for fellow coworkers is gone. All of a sudden they are willing to defend all sorts of weird stuff happening, other managers, budget cuttings, bad laws and policies etc. The same seem to happen when people become rich, but for the sake of keeping it simple let's just talk about the worker – manager dynamic for now. What I don't grasp is what comes first: Is anybody who becomes manager “forced” to turn off their emotions to be able to do their job? Or is it people who already have those traits who grabs the spots as managers? Ok – story time! I think this story is a great example of what I mean: I work at a unit with ~20 other people.…

I've been in training at my current job for the last two weeks and I just got a way better opportunity that starts Monday. I don't have any shifts left until next week and don't really want to go in. Can I do it over email? Or a phone call

My job was originally a temporary position meant to end in November, but I agreed to stay on longer since I didn't have anything else lined up at the time. I was very clear that was looking for work, and even told bossman what jobs I was applying for. Up until last week, I was literally the only employee. We now have one other, but ideally would have a crew of 3-4 for the summer. A month or so ago, I had two great interviews for a job, and told my boss this. All he said was, “thank you for telling me.” He still hadn't hired anyone else at this point and was clearly banking on me being there over the summer. Well, finally I got the job (huge pay raise, much easier workload, something actually in my field), handwrote a really kind two-weeks notice, since I mostly did like…