Antiwork

I’d like to think I’m fairly easy going and forgiving with other people, but this is just ridiculous. I messaged my supervisor five days ago, and was met with complete radio silence until yesterday. He kept his Slack notifications paused for five days, while I’ve just been sitting here with my thumb up my ass unable to do any work. And even when he got back to me he completely misunderstood my original message, so now I have to wait for however long it will take him to respond again until I’m able to continue working. Every day that slips by is another day that I’m missing out on making money, so I can’t even enjoy these “free days”, which is how my coworkers suggest I view this past week. God I’m just so frustrated. Can’t speak up because I’m a woman in a man’s workplace and I would be…

If a manager over works an employee, they'll be too tired to give quality work, if they underpay an employee they won't put as much effort into their job, if they harass an employee they won't be willing to compromise for the manager, if they don't care about an employee they won't care about their job or the manager. Wouldn't all this be common sense? Obviously if someone is tired they'll be too tired to do their best, if they feel sick they can't work hard until they heal, list goes on. Is it really that hard to understand every action has a consequence? (Thx for reading, just had to let that out)

Russia has invaded Ukraine. This is an act of capitalist imperialist aggression. Only one war can ever be in the interest of the working class, the class war. All workers must oppose war between Russia/Ukraine and also between NATO/Russia. Rulers feud and workers die, this is the cycle we must break. We must unite and force the ruling class to hear us when we cry, with one voice, “NO WAR BUT THE CLASS WAR” Solidarity to workers in Ukraine, solidarity to workers in Russia, solidarity to the workers of the world. ​ “Workers of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains!” — Karl Marx (Communist Manifesto)

My daughter has run into a situation at work that I find a little bit baffling. She works as a standard W-2 employee Monday through Friday, 8 hours a day. The company (in CA) also requires that she does occasional overnights on call in which she takes a work phone home. She missed a call at 1 AM because she was sleeping and did not hear the phone ring and they are setting up a meeting with an HR rep to take corrective action. On top of this she does not get paid for that time on call but gets $100 stipend each month for it. Something about this is not sitting right with me, I have no real insight.

Edit: LIVEABLE wage. Today was really rough. I had a meeting with my boss and it really did not go well at all. Let me first say that I'm an interior house painter and we are usually working in the same town I live in. Around a 15-20 minute drive. Well this week my boss wanted me to go to this house that's an hour and a half away.. and we would be there for 2 weeks. I physically cannot afford the gas it takes to go there. I don't spend any money on anything except gas and bills, and our rent just increased by a whopping 300. As well as all of our other bills and goods bc of well inflation. Moving out is not an option because my parents are not around. We are on government assisted food stamps, and that is how we eat. So the meeting…

My boss called me into his office and sat me down, said that I had missed more work than everyone in his small family business combined which is an absolute lie and exaggeration. I missed 5 days from October to now plus I had a few days where I had doctor appointments to clear up what the pain in my stomach was. I came to work sick a couple of times and he sent me home saying I looked and sounded like crap. He let people come to work with Covid and I ended up catching that again in December. When I stayed home one day in December to recover from that, he texted me and offered me a full week off but I didn’t take him up on because I knew it would be a problem. His systems security guy missed 4 days in January because he himself had…