Antiwork

I work at a increasingly busy starbucks now that we have a drive thru, and as of this week they are cutting hours because “labor costs”, but the flow of people stays the same. My shift got cut two entire hours yesterday as soon as I arrived, instead of leaving at 12, I was cut at 9:45 but we were busy at that time so I didn't end up leaving until a little after 10. My manager asks me today in the middle of a short rush, “what time were you done yesterday?” And I replied “uh I think around 9:50?” As that's when I was off drive thru but not the time I spent restocking and resetting my station., Only for him to scurry back to his computer to I assume change the work logs. It wasn't until after I saw him walk away did I realize what I…

Canadian here. 20-30 years ago, it wasn’t common for the average family to have two cars (family car and sports/muscle car) a 2,500 sqft or larger single family house, a cabin near the lakes, boats, quads, annual vacations, and retiring at 65 with a fantastic government + job pension in Florida. I’m not talking about people with multiple degrees who work 12 hours a day/ 6 days a week, I’m talking about regular blue collar working class folks. Now millennials and gen Z think that that life style is for only upper middle class or even rich people. People are happy to be paying $2,000 for a 1 bedroom 700 sqft apartment here, because now new rentals go for $3,000. People are getting used to driving tiny cars or taking the bus. People are fine with “staycations”. People expect to work until their 80s. Most young people have given up…

I was recently offered a job and had to do a pass background check to officially be given the job. This is not a problem, I’ve done many background checks in the past, I am not hiding anything. Yesterday, I received a copy of the background check and several flags came up. First, according to the background check, I did not graduate. However, I did graduate a couple months ago. Second, I mistakenly put that I worked at a previous employer for a few years longer than it actually was. The report came back that I stated I was there from 2019-2022. However I was not there that long. During 2022 I was working at my school while I was working on my degree. This job I had during 2022 checks out fine. Another flag I noticed on the background check is that none of the supervisors I used as…

Hi all, i don’t really no where else to post this. From november 2020 to august 2022 i was working for a landscape gardener in my local town, I needed the job so put up with more than i should have, i was paid £7 an hour or so. For all of those 2 years i was only ever paid for the time i was physically doing work, not travelling inbetween gardens to mow or building a fence etc. My boss was a complete narcissist and it made me feel like i couldn’t physically leave the job leading me to revert back down the black hole that is depression and i tried to OD. My boss didn’t believe me but after my parents found out i insisted i wanted to leave the job but they didn’t know the truth about how bad my boss really was. I ended up saying…

I work for a hydraulic hose/parts company. We take turns being on call for a few select customers. If called in (randomly, could be 3AM) we are given 2 hours OT. That’s for going to shop, helping customer with parts and going home. Also get 130 bucks to have the on call for the week/weekend. Yeah it’s almost not worth it. This customer told me yesterday, he’d need me today sometime. Probably around 11. At 11:30 he texted telling me it’s delayed but still today at some point. So now I can’t do anything at all with my day, waiting for the phone to ring, and will only get paid 2 hrs OT. When applying for a job that has call-outs, make sure it’s worth your time guys.

i had surgery scheduled for 4/20, and i was a manager at a vape store that i absolutely loved. i have asd and ADHD, which impacts my time perception among other things. i was employed for 9ish months, and came in late 3 times. the first time i was given a write up, but nothing for the subsequent times. my employer knew about my disabilities, but never even discussed accomodations with me. when i was there, i worked HARD because i had a lot of pride in that store, and they knew that. despite that, i was never asked what was causing the random lateness, they never offered to work w me or anything. they knew well in advance i had surgery on 4/20, and on 4/16 i was fired on the spot, mid shift. no write ups, no nothing. i was devastated and heart broken. since surgery, ive been…

So I’m going to try and keep who I work for hidden for now but long story short it’s retail. We sell a variety of stuff but it’s not a big store either, we carry frozen foods, dairy, cool drinks including alcoholic beverages. I’m in charge of this particular location and the occasional coolers going down isn’t unheard of especially during the hot months. One went down recently that holds beer, doesn’t really hurt anything since they’re not super perishable. We had a maintenance man come out and look at it and he told me that the compressor burnt out because it was sharing the same outlet as another cooler putting both of them on the same breaker not rated for that much power draw. These coolers in particular were installed about 3 or 4 years ago. I’ve been here 6 but I was unaware of any shady electrical issues.…

I work at a motorcycle dealer / shop and I accidentally dropped a bike and cause $500 of damage. They tried to make me pay for the damage but I didn’t and never will. Is it legal for them to take money off my pay or make me pay for the damage? Also trying to save the bike I fucked up my back pretty good. Also that 500 $ is half my pay cheque 🤣

Two guys walking down my street; one is going off about some girl “she’s nice…. She just doesn’t smile” My ears perk up “HAVENT you noticed the service industry has really gone down since Covid?! Bartenders, waitresses (not waiters.. but that’s another sub).. they don’t smile anymore” They were out of earshot but man I wanted to shout “you’d be prettier if YOU smiled asshole” Just THINK for one second, dude. People in general have had serious mood shifts since Covid, and always have treated service workers like a different caste, and now they’re working skeleton crews and all that, struggling… But no, she doesn’t smile anymore for you, 🙁 sad sad sad. I need service, not a smile. The guys friend didn’t seem to want to engage.