Antiwork

Just had to sit through a 3 hour mandatory training night after a full shift to hear about how great my company is, there amazing values and there pledge for a sustainable future…. I get paid minimum wage.

So I'm hopefully going into the trades soon, I have many friends in skilled trades who smoke weed or used to, weed is 100 percent legal for recreational use in canada and I have never run into any issues with testing myself, I had an interview today and the interviewer said that she spoke to someone who worked 7 days on 7 days off, on his off days he smokes weed as is his right, he came back after his 7 days off and they tested him randomly, he tested positive for weed of course because it can stay in ur system for weeks. Of course he wasn't actually high at work or anything, but he still was suspended until he tests negative, took him 9 weeks without pay to test negative and he was finally allowed back. Has anyone else in canada or anywhere where weed is legal for…

Just curious if anyone else has left a toxic environment that paid high to leave for a job that pays less(better benefits) but a $10 hour pay cut.

Over the course of the pandemic I decided to retire from a 15 year career as a chef and try to find something that suited my families time instead of some rich asshole that just wants me to help them get richer. This was the final straw in why I hung it up for good. I was an Executive Chef for a nationwide chain. The job required a ton of my time and overall being, I was barely home and when I was I was sleeping or working more. This company was bought out in a huge deal and overnight everything changed. Positions were eliminated, they kept trying to get me to take a pay cut, the list goes way fucking on. So, I started looking for a new gig. I got hooked up with a well known Chef and restaurant group looking to fill an executive position and it…

13.50 an hour. So here’s the deal. I got this job and it’s rare for me to have a full time job. Customers will call in about every possible issues, billing, troubleshooting, or how to use their own tv or computer and expect us to know the answer for them. To be hired permanently, we have to write notes and work with salesforce, a notoriously slow system that takes minutes to load and find information, so we are expected to say all the right things and make notes about everything at the same time and navigate the bullshit salesforce site to research for solution. Their expectation is that we get 0 minutes to write down notes between the calls and to fix any frozen screen issues or a deranged customer (at least a few times a day) and we have to tick a million disposition boxes correctly with a 10…