Antiwork

I landed a remote writing job that is paying almost twice the salary I could expect from my profession. It has been 2 months since I started working with them. At the beginning, everything was ok. Regular work hours, understandably tight deadlines, nice communication with my coellegues, etc. A month ago, I was informed the company decided to make saturdays a work day. I objected and requested a pay rise since I quit my previous job based on the offer they made. 5 days a week, base salary with no additional benefits. Note that the base salary is quite good even after taxes. My request has been denied and they advised me to change my mindset as all employees are working under same conditions and everyone must adapt to the pace. Also, I got paid 12 days later than my payday. Now, they started to assign me with tasks that…

I began work at an ER at a new hospital this January. The team seniors initially seemed welcoming and helpful and the department itself is well run relative to the poorly managed, low resource general environment. But the smiles and reassurances hid a culture of needlessly high expectations, obsessive micro control and just plain annoying Karenism. I've become increasingly self conscious, feeling like I have to constantly watch my back for a colleague telling me how I'm doing it wrong before even hearing the full story. Wrong in this sense is just not exactly the way they prefer to do it. I cannot look at my phone for five seconds (when everyone's been attended to and the waiting room is empty) without being told in a “friendly” passive aggressive tone that there's “always work to do.” At the same time, I'm simultaneously given “friendly advice” not to even touch a…

Per the title of you need a reference or can give a reference, please check out r/bemyreference. It’s a bit dead but r/aniwork is the perfect group to revive it!

As the meaning of this whole subreddit depends on your interpretation of the concept, I am curious about how most of you perceive the ideas behind this movement. I am pretty new to this and I am looking for food for thought.

UK. Work in a small sales team, with shared access to a drive full of files. Manager has been doing some budgets and such to hire new staff for the upcoming busy season. Manager does said budgeting in a shared document (which the whole team has access to) instead of their own private limited access documents. In this data is how much each member of the team earns per hour, which is vastly between the top and bottom. Colleague spots this and points this out to myself and another staff member on the team. They get written up and face disciplinary action for sharing “personal data”. Should this colleague be hard done by as the manager shouldn't have put this information on a shared sheet? My view is that the manager should be facing the disciplinary, not the colleague who pointed it out.