Antiwork

I just need to vent as I’ve been pissed off the last few days about this. I worked at a municipality this winter as a seasonal plow driver with the hopes of getting one of the full time spots that would be open at the end of the winter. Well I busted my ass came in every storm I was called in for, sacrificed my the holidays, weekends, and gave up time to spend with family, worked exceptionally hard and did damn good work only to be completely passed over for a kiss ass and some guy who was basically hired before the fucking interviews even happened and never even tempted here. I was told by one of the head people that “it was a very tough decision but we’d like for you to come back and be a seasonal worker and try again for full time next year. You…

Venting. We have these temperature monitoring systems that alarm when stuff is out of range. The room temp was alarming repeatedly so when that happens you’re supposed to tell management per the sop I go tell my boss and in a very sassy voice she goes “I know. Nothing more I can do ”… And it’s not the first time she seems annoyed with me when I tell her stuff for the good of the lab. Funny thing is it’s a lose lose, if I didn’t tell her stuff she’d be like “why didn’t you bring this to my attention?” Anyone else have a boss like that? I’m just getting sick of her , my old boss was never like this but she retired and this one took the job. Isn’t part of the reason you get paid the big bucks is cause they have to deal with issues? I…

So, I work for AT&T (sadly) and I had my eyes on a new pilot project that they are developing, and they needed volunteers to apply to get trained as the first group supporting the product (end-to-end). Well, I applied. And then I got an acceptance email and a 1on1 with my future manager for the role. They told me that more info was to be coming my way in the following week, including time-frames and salary and whatnot. Today I got an email that I was denied the promotion. I asked for clarifications and I got the answer. My stats (KPI) are low. But they're not, they're high. So I asked them to show me what my stats are, since they are low, and they gave them to me. They were wrong and I corrected them on the spot. My KPI are all where they need to be, so…

I recently started working at a clothing retailer in a small Utah town, this is a big corporation, but I’ll just leave the company name out of it. Our manager has an expectation that we are always on our workplace communication app, we are required to download it on our phones, and she sends us messages constantly wether we are at work or not, if we aren’t reading and responding to her messages outside of scheduled work hours, she gets upset with us when we are at work, that we aren’t volunteering our time out of work to stay caught up on communication, the app itself when we sign in gives us a message we have to accept to log in, that says if we are caught using it outside of work hours the company will discipline us, up to and including termination. Aside from the companies communication app, the…

I'm almost 40 and just keep coming back to the same conclusion. I don't think I can ever be happy when the majority of my days/waking hours are spent doing something I do not want to do. There's a deleted scene from the very end of Office Space when Peter is outside, at his new construction job, and his new boss walks up and is basically the blue-collar version of his previous boss. That kinda gives the movie a totally different spin and you wonder if Peter will ever actually be happy. ​ ​ I'll be starting a new job soon. I've been in my field for over a decade and, comparatively, the offer is objectively great. Better environment, significant salary raise, better benefits. When the opportunity came up, I was a little blinded by it – partly because of the pros of the job but also because it distracted…

Instead of doing whatever I want during an unpaid break we were all ushered into the conference room so we could eat lunch while gawking at the boss for being a year older. The other employees spent money on gifts but I refused. I'm contemplating demanding another break or pay for that time since I didn't feel that a had the freedom to do whatever I wanted during this unpaid break.

Hey, so I found this random paper at work and it got me thinking. It was all about how working a full eight-hour shift is way better than working a four-hour shift. At my job, we usually work for four hours and forty-five minutes with only one break, which honestly sucks. According to the paper, if you work eight hours, you're supposed to get a 12% break time per hour worked, but if you only work for four hours and forty-five minutes, you only get a 5% break time per hour worked. Like, what the heck, right? That means full-time employees get 65% more break time per hour than us part-timers. It got me thinking that maybe this is why our store hires so many part-time employees. It's cheaper for them because we get fewer breaks and work longer without taking any time off. Plus, they don't have to pay…