Antiwork

So, I recently started working for a nonprofit blood center. Big organization. I've kinda' been loving my job because, honestly, the benefits and pay are comparatively good when stacked against most employers in the area. I'm starting to notice the metaphorical cracks in the glass though. There's a lot I could mention but don't really need to… Today though, my employer decided to wake me up two hours before I needed to be up for a zoom meeting which consisted of a bunch of irrelevant info that everyone already knew. Communication and cohesiveness are virtually nonexistent in this organization. Part of that zoom meeting was announcing a competition between the east and west sides of the state though. Who can get the most people in for blood drives? The prize for winning? Pizza.   Blood is classified as a drug and it's ridiculously profitable. Each donation brings in thousands of…

Been at my new part time restaurant job not even two weeks, and I’m being pressured to complete some online training. There’s about 4 hours of it to do. It’s unpaid, and me and one other employee have said we’ll only complete during work hours or if it is paid to us. Management aren’t happy and are saying if we don’t complete it in our free time we can’t legally be employed anymore. This pisses me off as in my mind, everything work related should be paid. Keep in mind i’m in the UK not the US, so i’m unsure of the legality around it, but i know Walmart got taken to court for something like this in the US and lost. Should I refuse to do the training unless it’s on the clock? Or take the L and do it at home just to avoid risking losing my job.

I am tired of sitting here and taking it from corporations and the rising prices and everything it both is pissing me off and depressing me. Can we mobilize and do something? Please because things aren't working. Im barly living paycheck to paycheck and im only paying for food Wile still living with my parent. I make $11/hour and it's not enough. Im pisses off at corporations reporting record profits only to turnaround and fire joe because he was making the most on his team then never replace him. Im tired of not having enough people to do everything because management refuses to schedule properly. Im tired of not having a proper set schedule. The state of the us workforce right now pisses me off and it especially pisses me off that older generations think that retail and fastfood jobs deserve to be payed below a living wage despite this…

At the start of my employment, a few years ago, at a small company, I was given a brand-new MacBook Pro to work with (not that I asked for it, it was just provided to me). I was never told anything regarding the property policy for the company, nor is it really covered in my contract. For all I knew, my boss could have just handed me a MacBook Pro as a gift… Fast-forward about a year, the laptop completely stops working. There was absolutely no apparent cause for the breakage, and when I took it to the Apple store they claimed there were signs of water damage and I would have to pay over £1000 to get it fixed (I had never had any liquid near the laptop, so not sure how that would happen). I contacted my boss when the laptop broke, explained the situation and in short…

This story is from the first summer of the pandemic. I’d just graduated school and it was difficult to find a job during the initial pull back in March. I had a side gig watching pets on rover and at the time of this interview I was watching two lab mixes Emma and Sammy. I had an interview scheduled at 2 pm with liberty mutual to look into being some kind of financial advisor I’m not sure of the title anymore. At around 1:50 they send a zoom link so I go in and wait, I’m wearing a button down shirt and dressed nice as you could expect for a business call. By 2:15 she hasn’t shown up, so I send an email, saying hey I’m here, what’s up. All I get back is radio silence. At 3 pm a full hour later, I’m thinking ok we’ll just reschedule, Sammy…

About 13 years ago I was promoted to assistant manager of a restaurant. The company provided all managers with a Blackberry(remember those!?). The advice I was given was to always answer the phone like I had been awake for hours and was at my most alert. I had all the closing shifts so I usually got home around 2 or 3 am. Most calls came between 7 and 8 am. I was told it was unprofessional to answer the work phone sleepy. Oh, and it was major bad news it it rang more than 3 times or god forbid went to voicemail. I was young and dumb and just accepted it as the way the professional world works. I don’t know why I suddenly thought of it after all the years, but when I did I just chuckled at the ridiculousness of that very one sided shitty piece of advice.…

So my crews usual start time is 9:30PM and we end up finishing our jobs around 3:30-4:00 AM, the pay is $21.00 an hour with insurance and a “union” which is supposed to stand up for workers rights and defend the interest of the workers (it doesn't, it just keeps lazy people from getting fired). Yesterday we get our start times and it's 11:00PM, which is odd since that hasn't happened since pre-covid times back in 2019. We all go into work that night and the parking lot is full. Completely full. Every other crew within the entire company got called in at 9PM, the normal start time, except my crew and 3 others, and the 3 other crews perform the same tasks my crew does, just in different locations. We asked what was up with the change and the part time supervisor told us that 11:00PM is the new…

This morning we had a meeting in which Management addressed rising fuel costs. Their suggested solution to ease the burden on us was that “we find coworkers to car pool with”. It was then requested that we e-mail our suggestions. What follows is what I sent: “Per the meeting this morning I thought I would share my thoughts. For the past two years (or more) the manufacturing, service, shipping/receiving, quality, maintenance, and corresponding managers (you) have continued to commute to work 52 weeks per year. Let us use an estimated figure of $50/week on gas to commute to work. Assuming each employee is off for ~two weeks of the year for vacation/holidays, that puts fuel costs to keep [Company] alive at somewhere around $2,500.00 per year (more or less). Due to Covid, much of the company has been working from home (and continues to do so). To my neanderthal brain,…