Antiwork

Just got a talking to from my boss about doing a process that gets repeated on an irregular schedule too frequently. I work in food service and we use a vat frier foroat of our hot food. With how much we cook, the oil goes bad fairly quickly, even with proper maintenance. I change the oil when the food coming out of it tastes more like bad oil than anything else, which is typically at the 10-12 day mark. My boss just told me that the last time I changed the oil I did not leave it for long enough and that it should stay in use for at least a week and a half. It was in use from April 27 to May 8. Exactly a week and a half. My boss has literally never worked with the frier (by her own admission). She sits in her office all…

I applied and got for a specific position at my job a year ago. It’s a great company— very cushy. They let go of 10% of our staff last week and now told me that I am not fired, but I am forced to take a different position. I don’t like this position. I didn’t apply for this position, I want the job I just had up until now. Tldr; The new job is even easier and same pay, and I do really like this company, but it just sucks that they are making me switch. Makes me feel like I was not valued. And now I won’t belong to my old team anymore and will be a bit of a loner.

So first and foremost is one of my major flaws is I can lose myself in my own head and just think about something for hours. While at work today I got stuck on work, the concept and why we have to “work” to make a living and all the rules that follow. You have to be the same person every day, you always have to smile and be customer friendly, don't let work spill into home life and vive versa, you might have 15 years experience and do deserve nearly triple what we offer but you'll have to start at the bottom and work your way up to get the proper pay, the fight for a fair pay so we can live without worry, the housing and hunger crisis, the wealth hoarding something's gotta snap and make it stop! Why are we allowing this to happen? Why aren't we…

I had an interview all set up at Hotel A. Hotel A also owns Hotel B down the street. Hotel B called to offer me an interview, as well. I tried to put both interviews on the same day. Both places are about an hour away. Hotel B got all weird about it and let me know they'd be checking with Hotel A to see what their intentions were. I was merely trying to be open about scheduling my interview. Hotel B left a bad taste in my mouth after their phone call. An hour after getting off the phone with Hotel B, Hotel A canceled my interview. I immediately call Hotel B and ask if he had caused a problem. He said he did reach out because both hotels were not supposed to get the same candidates. WTH why do companies assume you won't look into multiple positions? I…

Say you work in insurance (some of you might actually). You work in small office. Just a few of you. Let’s say you’re service and everyone else in the office is sales. Your responsibility is assisting clients with things like bills, policy changes, mortgage changes, coverage questions, complaints, and on and on. And you are first on phones which means if you’re not already on a call, in the bathroom, or lunch you’re picking that phone up. Even if you’ve just answered 5 calls in the last 15 minutes and you’re out of breath, you’re picking up that call. Let’s say your sales team spends most of the day making a few cold calls, then gossiping for an hour, then a few more cold calls. Then a few quotes/issuing policies, then gossiping for another hour. And so on. Let’s say one of your sale’s coworkers is leaving early and not…

I’m almost 50. I want to make sure that the younger generation knows something important. You are not hired because you know more. You are hired because you are easily manipulated. You know just enough to do the job you are told to do. You haven’t had enough experience or time in the position to know why something is a bad idea. When your manager comes to you with their “brilliant” idea, you are going to try and implement it and assume that if you can’t you are to blame. And they need that. They need people that don’t know to tell them all the reasons what they are asking for is asinine.

I just want to preface this by saying that I am very thankful to be a member of a union and understand how important unionization is for protecting workers rights!! However, Monday our union class teacher told us that if we stayed for a union vote that day we would be able to leave early on Friday. He didn't give a specific time, but alluded to the fact that it would be noon. We start at 7 and typically leave at 3:30. 10 of us decided to stay. The vote was intended to start at 4:30… but we ended up being there until 6. It sucked but I didn't really care because the 10 of us would get to leave early Friday. Come today, Friday, I anticipated we would leave at 1 at the latest because we spent 2.5 extra hours at work Monday, meaning we should leave 2.5 hours…