Antiwork

Was chatting with a friend/former coworker today. Apparently our old company (his current company) is having problems with remote workers having tech issues, or calling out with no back up (the nerve!) This is after the busy holiday season (only slightly busier than every other busy season during the year, but they were slammed with calls, long shifts, and misery for a couple of months straight). He told me their main software had routine down AND slow periods during that time, but of course that was not factored into their metrics whatsoever (despite it not being their fault). The company’s solution? Well, they can’t hire more workers. Clearly they blow through them and burn them out way too quickly, and btw that’s totally the worker’s fault. Every time they claimed to be almost at staff, there would be some new notice that they were getting more floods of trainees. Last…

I have been working at the same place for over 20 years. I am an electrical engineer who installs wires and components for manufacturing machines and scoreboards. Six years ago, I was demoted. I had been a foreman at the time, and they said that I did not posses the appropriate computer skills to hold that position. So they replaced me with the bosses son. Whatever, being foreman kind of sucked. For the last three years I have been asking for a raise. My pay has been static ever since. For the past three years I have been asking for a raise. I am the only experienced person in my department and they keep on hiring new people within a dollar of what I am getting paid, and I have to show them how to do the job because the foreman doesn't know how to do it. Last week they…

My boss talks to me like I am 2, and then told me today I am not allowed to take my laptop home. As I’ve been taking it for for a month now, putting my two weeks in tomorrow. Work places that treat you like shit seee yaaa baby!

Long story short, after a bad meeting with one of my bosses (where he threatened me to either change my attitude? or part our ways), not even an hour later I'm finding that he already posted the job online. Yes, I started searching right away cause I was already sniffing something fishy beforehand because not even a few days earlier, the only guy working middle management just left (he coped to work with these assholes a whooping 5 1/2 MONTHS) . No notice, no nothing, my dude had the balls to just walk out the door (which maybe I should have done too, but unfortunately, I am not in a position yet to do so). I am sure this is my job two reasons: For as long as I have worked here, I did not hear once they were looking to expand and from what I know from former colleagues,…

I recently got offered a new job at a place that has an awesome ethic and it got me thinking about all the BS I’ve put up with from shitty jobs in the past, so I thought I’d share this gem. Once worked for an online retailer. If you’re in the UK you’ve heard of them, and so has your Gran. I worked in the online merchandising department and in the run up to “peak” (Christmas) I was convinced to work several dozen hours of overtime on the suggestion of paid overtime instead of time in lieu. We never used to have time to use our actual holidays, so time in lieu was useless. Plus I used to get paid double time overtime for everything above 40hours so I jumped at the chance, but being young and dumb didn’t get any of this overtime agreement in writing. Fast-forward to submitting…