Antiwork

I am the hostess at a restaurant attached to a hotel. Let me preface, I actually really like my job, the pay could be better but it's not bad but the hours are great, even in the off-season, and they have really great benefits, and management has always been straight with us. I hate our Call-Out policy. Ours is 2 hours advance, minimum. Our restaurant opens at 7:00am, my shift starts at 6:30 am. I get up at 5:30 am. The manager for the morning is also scheduled at 6:30 am. If the 6:30 person calls out we're supposed to call front-desk so they can leave a message with the time of our call and then we also email to GM of the restaurant as well. Today, and I mean right now, my bowels have decided to go all Ark of the Covenant on me and I've been stuck in…

You should absolutely be on your jobs subreddit/unofficial forum/et cetera advocating for better pay and work reform. Use reddit as a litmus test for how others are thinking about your job. Use what you know to deter, talk out new employees from joining. We can control the narrative and effect the outside world, but only if we do it together. Look at the Gamestop situation as inspiration of what's possible if we act together.

Tl;dr: There's no tldr, I'm just exhausted and frustrated and this is me ranting. Feel free to ignore. I've been working for my company for just over 2 years now. In the first 1.5 years, I was one of the (if not 'the') top performers in my team/department to the point that just after 15 months in, I was one of the 3 senior most people in my department and I was being pushed into a more leadership role. During this time, I was regularly putting in extra time (in some cases up to 12 hours a day). I wouldn't take sick/personal days and even when I did I was usually always available and was putting out fires. This was so frequent that it actually became a joke amongst my colleagues. 1.5 years later, I got the opportunity to go to grad school in a different country but finances were…

It's easy for people like Kim Kardashian to 'work hard'. For them, work consists of fancy dinners with clients and wearing designer clothes in front of a camera. For the working class, work is often miserable, alienating, and oppressive. How hard one works is not just a matter of personal choice and character, it's mostly determined by one's circumstances.

I quit my work y-day. Posted about it. What I might have forgotten to mention is literally *20 seconds* before I was paying for my last shop with the supermarket using my employee discount card for the last time, this small, weak looking lady comes up and says excuse me, can you get a manager? I haven't heard anything about my application in weeks. ​ I warned her away from the company. She went wide-eyed and patted my shoulder twice and thanked me before leaving. :->. We already didn't have enough people (CAN'T.IMAGINE.WHY.) and I quit very suddenly on them. I genuinely do not recommend working for that company willingly however. Impart a bit of the Matrix where you can and help folks dodge bullshit too, everyone!