I got there 15 minutes before the interview start time. I was told that the VP I was interviewing with was “finishing up a phone call” and would be just about 10 more minutes. Totally fine. 20 minutes go by. “Just a few more minutes” I am told by the same receptionist. Another 15 minutes go by. At this point, I'm done. I walk up to the receptionist and told him that clearly this was a bad time for the VP, please have them call me when they are available, and I do not appreciate my time being wasted. They said ok, and I walked out. Waiting to see if I get a call from the VP. Receptionist certainly had a shocked pikachu face when I told him I was leaving.
They’re Goners.
Got fired for being sick.
So frustrating. Worked at a bakery for 2 months and everything was fine. I never get sick but got a really bad flu one weekend and couldn't come in. Owner fired me when I came back saying my absence caused a lot of issues…like it was my fault.
No action. No change. It’s 2023.
What do you think we can do to take action? This subreddit has scale. It has the ability to move mountains if mobilized correctly — or wander aimlessly. I lurked while this subreddit had incredible momentum in late 2021…and I was present when the news outlets stopped reporting on this forum. How did Antiwork get neutralized? How do we leverage our size to stop the in-fighting and ignore the outside forces looking to keep Antiwork just another subreddit? I want to see folks coming together, ignoring bait, and not treating this as some subreddit for “entertaining bad boss” posts or ego boosts. What do you think we can do to take action?
I work in sales, the first two months of the year is a busy season for us, so we have certain rules in place: 1. Management will deny any pto 2. Monthly incentives where if you work overtime, you’ll get OT and they raffle off bonuses at random Most of us have our heads down hustling to make extra money. March rolls around, and for the first week in a row, a “disproportionate” number of salespeople take a sick day 7/50 people. Upper management gets a lot of pressure from executives after learning the employees calling in sick, which meant fewer people could cover the phones. New rule is if you take a sick day, you have to make it up within 30 days, fantastic.
I have been working for some time in a company that mixes the health and IT fields. The director of my company has a great public image but is actually a horrible human being. He spends his time disrespecting his employees. I hear a lot of rumors that he owes a lot of money because of the company. We are getting more and more threats from shady guys, probably unhappy customers but I can't prove it. I think every company faces threats, but this is the first time I've faced such violent messages. I'm really scared. My manager isn't much better, he's always talking down to me and has very abusive words for me and my colleagues. When I see him doing his hypocrite posts on Linkedin, it makes me want to vomit. I don't know if it's because of my company director that he's like this or if he's…
Co-worker is bosses friend
I need some advice. I get paid very well and the hours of the job are very short, around 4-5 hours a day and I get paid per day, not per hour. I've been doing this job for nearly a decade, and about 2 years ago my boss brought in someone else as my co-worker. My co-worker is an absolute moron. He does everything wrong and constantly makes mistakes. He's my bosses long time friend and he's much older than me. My boss never tells him he's doing anything wrong and never disciplines him. Instead he blames me for everything wrong his friend does. I've called him out on this and he literally admitted that he knows it was the other guy but he blames me in front of him so maybe he'll hear him yell at me and figure it out that he should fix his problem. Literally gets…