Antiwork

So I've posted about my shitty boss before but now she has taken it to a new level. I'm an HR assistant and she has has now put in rules that I'm not allowed to have private conversations in my office with employees because it “makes her uncomfortable”. In the past she has done sketchy stuff like firing someone for not picking up shifts but in reality she prevented us from offering shifts to the worker because she didn't like them. Or not documenting preformance corrections with an employee so when we found out the employee was committing fraud we (as in HR) were put into a bind. Well I was told by a coworker about how she was planning on firing an employee eventually once we got more staffing which without proper grounds would put me in a bind again. So to head this off I emailed my corporate…

I'm sitting here listening to my manager do training about updated hiring processes, they recommend that in the job posting they list pay between $15-$16 if they are looking to hire someone for $12 and they say “There's always room for negotiation”. Jesus they aren't even saying the quiet part out load. I took the job for $13 only because I absolutely needed something and have been looking for another job for a while. This place is awful.

Hi all, i work for a company in which we need to travel by car from city to city. The hotel is 1 hour away from worksites and 1 hour back. Yet the company says it doesn’t count as time towards hourly. They want a strict 8 hour work schedule plus the 2 hour commutes. So 10 hour days but only getting paid 8… HELP (California)

The things I do for a Temp Job. Evidently I ate something that didn't agree with me. Maybe it's the hot pockets I eat for dinner. Maybe I'm intolerant to something. Maybe I'm just seriously overweight. I don't know, I can't afford to see a doctor. I usually have a bowel movement just after getting to my desk. Basically, I arrive, drop off my stuff, go to the bathroom, come back, get to work. Boss makes a dollar, I make a dime. So I get a phone call when I get to my desk, and I answer it. It goes longer than expected. My colon is not having it. I rush the end of the phone call. I go out to the hall. The bathrooms are right there but it's too far. I feel something running down my leg. MFW I take off my clothes in the bathroom. I've made…

To me it seems like having a Big Mac cost 14 dollars or whatever would actually be a good thing. All of these mega-corporations come to town and undercut the prices of basically all of the small businesses, eventually resulting in small businesses shutting down. Around where I live, there are dozens of small towns with all but deserted main streets, while the strip mall outside town with the same 20 big corporate chains (McDonalds, Taco Bell, Walmart, Target, etc) seem to do just fine, employing most of the town at as low a wage as they can get away with (shareholders need those profits and low operating expenses!). It seems like if the large multi-billion dollar corporations were forced to pay their employees a proper wage, perhaps one proportionate to their profits, it would only help small businesses as it would make shopping at these mega-corporations less appealing (why…