Antiwork

My company implemented a policy months ago that we’re “not allowed to have meetings on Fridays”. I guess this was in an effort to give people a lighter Friday and actually feel like they can bring their week to a close in terms of tasks done for work. This was also implemented during a time of an insane amount of meetings due to a new software implementation. No one adheres to this rule, not even the person who rolled it out. It’s so stupid. I get mad everytime someone schedules me on a Friday, but at the same time I can’t complete my tasks without their input. I think the rule is stupid in general and shouldn’t have been implemented in the first place. No one can actually get shit done around here without a million meaningless meetings. It was never going to work. Ok, rant over.

Tomorrow my last day to pay. (280$) got fired. Don’t know what to do 24(F) and feel like w hole failure

I've read some of LaFarge… There is a great selection of works here! And music! Right now reading The Mythology of Work.

On Friday of last week, I texted my manager requesting a raise and explained the reasons I considered worthy of a raise. He replied back telling me that my reasons were pretty good and that he appreciated my honesty. Yesterday, he pulled me aside and told me that in order for him to talk to the owners about my raise, he would need me to commit for the next 8 months to 1 more year minimum at this job. The reason he is telling me this is that I already expressed my plan to leave later this year, around July. I'd honestly have no issue agreeing to commit, but I'm pretty sure that my request won't be accepted the way I want, also I would like to be able to work remotely and I'm sure as hell that they won't let me have those 2 things. Maybe they'll have me…

Good day, I am about to provide my boss with my resignation letter at the end of the day. My question is, are there any ramifications to giving less notice than what's in my employment agreement? My employment agreement states that 6 weeks is required, which is loony to me, this clown is lucky he's even getting 2. With that in mind, do I have anything to worry about legally by not giving him this 6 weeks? I'm located in Ontario. Thanks.

So I'm pretty certain this is wage theft, but I'm unsure what she could do about it. Her company makes every employee doing daily online training on this mobile app they have. At first she made it sound like a company directive to not complete this training during working hours (either to be completed before a worker clocks in or during their 15 minute break) but after I asked her about it after work she said it was just her boss that is mandating it. It doesn't seem like there is any memorandum, and it is just a verbal rule. I told my wife she needs to report it since she is doing unpaid work that is mandated by the company. She said she doesn't mind and will occasionally do it while on the clock so she's not to concerned. I told her it isn't just about her, as there…

Posting this for my husband. Husband just started a new job a month ago, he's a librarian. This job has a 3-month probationary period and he got his first job performance review back this week, all unsatisfactory except punctuality. They pulled him into the office to give him his review and made him sign it, when he tried to ask about it, they said they will set a meeting with him next week to talk more. They didn't give him a meeting date/time or say anything else. Now my husband is not a bad worker, I know that could sound biased as the wife, but he has a ton of good references at other libraries, and has never before received an unsatisfactory, let alone all unsatisfactory. It's really a personality conflict between him and the librarian who is in charge of training him (Calling her Supervisor). He's still new to…

I work a job that's basically a call center. We have very busy periods, but also extremely dead periods where we have literally nothing to do. We all have our ways of passing the time, lots if not most of us fool around on our phones in down time. Like when it's dead we'll get maybe 10 calls an hour. Our bosses are recently trying to enforce a policy that won't let us use our phones as entertainment. The reason they gave us, and I shit you not, is that our phone cameras are always spying on us and that it can record sensitive client info… I seriously don't understand how they can use this as a valid reason. Like the way 99% of humans use a phone there is no physical way for the cameras to be angled at the screen. Secondly, we could just minimize our software that…