Antiwork

Something I've been thinking about, for quite some time now. If you work evenings or weekends, you're more likely to use a couple of hours PTO here and there for various events. Maybe it's a family gathering on a Saturday, maybe it's your kid's recital on a Wednesday night, or maybe it's a concert. This creates a disparity. These events are scheduled for the 9 to 5 crowd, so they don't miss work. The 9 to 5, Monday through Friday crowd can take a vacation AND attend these events. Meanwhile, those who work evenings and weekends, have to decide between going to their nephew's birthday party on a Saturday afternoon, and taking a nice, long, and deserved vacation. I don't think it's too much to ask for a couple of extra hours of PTO a month if your schedule requires you to work nontraditonal hours.

My sister recently got her first “real job”, working for our state’s health department. I won’t get any more into it than that – but – she claims that she “barely does ANY work” most days. She’s often baffled as to how she’s getting paid full-time to work “full-time”, which usually means just waiting around for anything at all to “work” on. There are some days where she literally does not do any work at all, yet she’s paid full-time, and a pretty great starting salary at that! I know this is just one personal anecdote, but it made me wonder: Does anyone relate to this phenomenon? Do you (or anyone you know) work a job with very little actual work? If so, please share your experience!

Years ago, I discovered that most trucking companies will not route a driver through a city where they have a connection, to prevent sudden resignations. (Cue evil plan.) I was teaming, and my co-driver and I were regularly route to Seattle via Denver or Cheyenne. In the winter, the 1400 or so miles (2200km) from Northern Colorado to Seattle can take a week due to weather. “We can't afford this,” I told my co-driver. He agreed. “I'm going to fix it.” I called dispatch. “We're at the truck stop outside Denver. We don't have a load until morning? Heeey, that's great. I'm going to call my niece. She lives in Fort Collins.” (Fort Collins is also the location of a large brewery, about half-way between Denver and Cheyenne.) Yes, I did have a niece, but apparently I confused Aurora (right around the corner) with Fort Collins (about 50 miles/80km.) Oh,…

As topic goes, is that normal? He isn't in the store, at all. Store surveillance doesn't have audio input. But he dictates a very select few radio station we can put on (he has extremely outdated, bad taste in music, *calls rock station, “metal”) The only reason he knows the radio station have been changed, is because he drops by occasionally due to boredom. It's a very small store, and usually only 1 employee working at a time. Is there anything to be done? The boss micromanages in a lot of different aspects that are extremely trivial as well, but I wanna just make this thread on the radio topic alone.

I am the office manager for a large government funded health system. I operate headquarters, therefore the largest facility of our system, and am extremely involved in all operations in four separate departments. Because we’re headquarters, we also house various members of administration and the CEO himself. I’ve been the office manager for 2 years now, and with the company for just a few more months before that. I left retail management (in which I was very successful) and then landed in healthcare (non profit) management 4 months before COVID-19. Before COVID, this location had a myriad of dysfunction. High maintenance providers, loose task structure, people using PTO whenever they pleased, and bad customer service. I was expected to build rapport with these providers but also implement the company expectation that we serve everyone that walks up to our doorstep. During my interview, the CEO himself interrupted to lay on…

I have 5+ years in my industry and the pinnacle designation in that field which I accomplished in less than half the time of the average. I had a good position but after I asked for a promotion, given I was the only one on the team with that designation and excellent reviews every year, they promoted someone else and said mine would come “someday.” I decided to see what was out there. Recruiters came after me on LinkedIn and after several interviews with a handful of companies, I got an offer that was over 50% over what I was making. I accepted. Fast forward a little over 2 months…and they won't train me. I've had a basic overview of systems and they are horrible, inefficient, time consuming. I ask a question and get three different answers . I've been overwhelmed and bullied by the person I will have to…