Antiwork

I recently got hired for a new job which will hopefully turn my life around after admittedly many poor choices, and people taking advantage of my poor choices, which put me into the painful situation of being homeless. My problem is simple on paper, but is something I just can't figure out a solution for, and now I'm almost out of time. I have onboarding tomorrow for my new job I was hired for, which is great. I have all my documentation, past the drug test, so I'll get to learn the ropes. After onboarding, I start fully on Tuesday next week. It's a full-time $22/hr position with commission, 5-days/week in retail sales. I am hoping to save enough to become self-sufficient and get my own place. The issue is that I can't go to my onboarding day without getting cleaned up. For my interview I was assisted and was…

I have worked for a small marketing firm for a year as an office manger. This experience has really showed me that small businesses can be just as greedy than corporations, usually more if the owner is a control freak. The boss is a nightmare to work with on a daily basis but doesn’t value employees. He verbalizes it but never offers raises and last minute decided we weren’t doing performance bonuses anymore (everyone on the team would have qualified based on our internal metric system). Over Christmas, I was notified that my hours were being cut from 40 to 25 for “cost saving initiatives”. I lost all the PTO and benefits that I had when I signed on as full time. My boss justified it as “You live at home so I know that you probably don’t have as many expenses as someone higher up in your field which…

If you go looking, you’ll find a post or two about my shitty job in the medical field. For background, I’m a medical assistant in a major hospital corporation owned physician clinic. Since lockdown, we have been without a phlebotomist because upper management decided our numbers didn’t warrant us having one, and the MAs can draw their own labs. This takes time away from other crucial tasks, like authorizations and phone calls. We (the other MA and I) have been trying to convince them of this, without success. I asked for a desk job after getting a diagnosis of POTS (postural Orthostatic tachycardia syndrome) last year. POTS makes long periods of standing and moving around very difficult for me, and occasionally dangerous – I am at risk of passing out when I stand or am up too long. I was given a desk job, but was still ‘floated’ to multiple…

New to this subreddit so if this isn’t what this is for lmk and I’ll take it down. I’m trying to unionize my workplace right now I’ve been in contact with the IWW and have dozens of co-workers on board. Is there anything I need to look out for/do in the next few weeks to make this process smoother? Any general advice people have? Any information would be greatly appreciated!