Antiwork

Hello all. I joined a new company last year. It’s a multi million dollar business that has moved nearly all of its employees remote because of the pandemic. I am currently in preparations for my first annual review. We have a formal survey to complete, with a numbered score being assigned to a rating scale. The manager then adds their opinion after you submit your self-evaluation. One of the questions was about attendance. I gave myself the rating equivalent of “exceeds expectations” and my manager gave me “generally adheres to standards”. I called off a total of three days last year. The first time was for me being sick, and I was out for two days in a row. The second was a single day for my daughter. Am I missing something? I thought missing three days in an entire year was exceptionally good? Am I never supposed to be…

Hey guys, so after months of looking around and applying for jobs, I was offered a job with a pay raise of 75%, plus benefits, compared to what I currently make now. I went to work and put my two weeks in, and my colleagues at first seemed happy for me. Then things got a little weird. My timesheet from last week has been completely edited. The managers have taken off any extra time I worked and lowered it below the 40 hours I had made that week. Next I saw the schedule, and i’m scheduled to work the next 8 days in a row with no day off?! My manager and her husband both work here, and I’ve been covering his 2-10 shifts all week while he’s out of town, and she texts me today and goes, “well can you also do 2-10 on Sunday, I have a dinner…

Hi, I don't know if you guys can help me but I work at a bookstore and last week, my manager texted me that he doesn't have any extra money on the payroll for me so he will schedule my hours next week so when the new week was about to start, I texted him that what are my hours? He texted me the same thing and he'll let me know for next week(which its right now this is second week). So the weekend is coming and I don't know what to say and I'm feeling he'll say same thing or I get laid off. So what's your advice? Plus, I'm actively looking for a new job as well.

Sounds glib, but I’m serious. I don’t wanna be a corporate shill, but I also have no idea how to support myself without sacrificing my values. Is there an honest form of life in the United States today?

I just found of my gf has been pretending to scan peoples cards but canceling the order to give them free food on occasion. Maybe once or twice a day. Her training sucked so she could always claim ignorance, but could she personally get in trouble for this beyond being fired?

Been spending the past several years sporadically, not at all consistently, checking in on the news in the misguided hope that maybe something good had happened. A reason to have hope again. Something good for the working class, or good for defeating corruption, or good for derailing the authoritarian track many countries are headed down, or good to the massive schism polarizing the political landscape, or good for the health of the planet, or good for the marginalized communities, or good for the stability of the world. Years now, and it's almost never anything good. It's just always a continuation or elevation of all the bad. Yes, news is designed to work this way, but what tangibly good things have happened that will benefit the majority of the population in a way that compares to the other stories we hear? And then just as it starts to look like the…

I have a direct report who was hired on as a contractor (before I was hired). Just overall an amazing person and one of the most passionate, reliable and genuinely nice people I have ever met. The company has promised that person an FTE position for 9 months now. When I joined that team the company even made it my goal to convert the person to FTE. Well, the contract is supposed to expire in two weeks one week after a major project comes to an end. I’ve provided data of our workload, roi, all the other bs upper management needs, reasons why this position can’t be eliminated, collected feedback from our internal stakeholders that this person is needed! Nothing… they are just dragging that person on, giving hope making empty promises. At first they wanted to renew the contract, which they legally can’t and won’t because of that. I…

A screening call, a business case and now a third interview! What else do they need to know? What is the purpose of a third interview…?

I put in my two weeks on Monday. I had every intention of working out my resignation. Boss brings me into the office to talk about “rumors” she heard – she said people were talking and saying that I was telling people I was resigning because of her. She told me that people were saying that I was saying she made me cry. That she was just trying to run a business and that her approach was straight forward. None of that was true and I never told a soul anything of the sort. It’s a business, not a high school. There’s no reason for lies and drama, but there’s even less reason to put my integrity on the line and question me about something blatantly false. I’ve never been so insulted! I put my two weeks in because after almost 3 months of working there no one can bother…

As soon as I save up a little bit of money I'm buying a cheap piece of land somewhere out in the middle of nowhere and I ain't coming back! You can keep your 60hr work week and your million dollar houses. Im going to grow and hunt my own food and run around naked just like mother nature intended!