Antiwork

Over heard our interim administrator brag about how this facility made the most it’s ever made this month. And she literally took credit. The real reason isn’t her bootstrap pull-ups, elbow grease, and moxie. Nor her determined individuality conservative values, and independence. It’s because I caught two people stealing pain meds from elderly residents and they got fired AND NOT REPLACED for weeks! Those of us that are left have been scrambling to cover shifts while she flys home to Illinois every week for 4 days. She saw how much the company was making and held out hiring until the new administrator gets here. I’m sure she’ll get a fat bonus for it. Heroes indeed.

I'm so sick of trying to find doctors that accept XYZ insurance, battling with insurance to cover certain things, having shit change on me so I have to find a new doctor, having insurance not cover a specific form of medication because they think they know better than a doctor, etc. Like recently, I found out my insurance won't cover a 90 day supply of my medicine. I have epilepsy and my medicine isn't abused much at all since trying to take it in the ways people abuse drugs would likely just lead to a seizure. I will never not need this medicine, there's no reason that they shouldn't cover it, and they did before. Fuck healthcare being tied to insurance and insurance being tied to our workplace.

I spent the majority of my time in college working part time, like 20-25 hours a week while I was attending classes. I think most would concur this is fairly typical. When I got out of college (and for a gap year that I had in the middle), I worked 40 hours a week, and it was fucking awful. I found that my productivity plummeted, my diet and sleep schedules worsened, and my overall happiness lessened. I returned to a post under which I was previously employed, and am now working only about 20 hours a week. This, I would say unequivocally is the happiest I have ever been in my life. I am well rested, and get enough time off of work to where I actually look forward to it, not towards the weekend. When I arrive for my shift, I maintain maximum productivity for the full duration of…

I'm in IT as a junior analyst for one of GM's subsidiaries and I've just got to rant. I'm the only IT personnel on this shift (4p to 4a) and I just started about a month ago. No training, knowledge base, and was not provided tools even though it's a technician role (brought in my own to break). I also wasn't told what I'd be working until the end of the first week. And even then they told me it only be 10 hours a day Mon-Fri. About a month later, I've worked no less than 74 hours every week. I got COVID right before easter and was told to come in for the remaining two days or I'd receive “points”. This is something all non-office workers have to follow (and of course the office guys don't come in on weekends and work 8hr days). The production line workers are…

I have really been excited to move to a different position at my work. Currently they have me working 3 days doing 1 position and 2 days training for the job I'm trying to move to. I've worked in an industry where training is taken very seriously to prevent outcomes involving death, so I take training very seriously. Unfortunately it doesn't seem like raining gis all that important to my manager. I have told my manager multiple times I don't feel comfortable working alone yet. If an employee of mine said they didn't feel comfortable doing a shift alone, I would stay until they felt comfortable doing that job alone. Today, my manager told me I'm working alone because they don't have enough budget to have someone train with me during that shift. They can only afford one person. I don't feel valued as an employee and refuse to work…