Antiwork

What’s your opinion on this. People say it’s an employer market because layoffs are happening and it’s a response to weakening candidate powers, and driving down wages while other says that it a candidate market because COVID made people realize their true worth and still are resilient even with layoffs

I’ll go first. I once door to door selling water filtration systems. Business was already shady because they would tell us to stretch the truth and even lie to the people who answered the door. They partnered us up usually. One day me and my coworker were knocking, and we usually got out of the car and would each knock a row of houses across the street from each other. We were doing this, and I get back in the car and wait for her. She comes back clutching her leg and is white as a sheet. I asked “You ok?” And she shook her head and showed me her leg… it was bad. There was a few huge gashes on her upper thigh, and it was bleeding, and it was purple and yellow. Turns out a boxer had burst thru one of the doors she knocked on and locked…

So I'm a full time teaching assistant at this private international university, which is part of a big conglomerate (some of their subsidiaries include X School, X University, X car, X mart, X resort, X theme park etc). They gave us teaching assistants a “service contract” instead of a labour one. The difference is that on this contract they are not obligated to pay into our national medical insurance or social insurance (social insurance is responsible for paying us women maternity benefits and eventually retirement). Some of my main concerns are: Nowhere in our contract does it say how long we're supposed to work, nor the fact that we're “full-time” staffs (or “service provider” if we're going by technicality). The job description says we're working an EQUIVALENT of 44 hours a week, which I interpret as doing a 44 hours WORTH of work a week. However, we are required to…

I work front desk at a popular massage place that sells a lot of skin care products. Today, my manager informed us FDAs that starting now, each time we come in we need to pick a product, tell her what that product is, and try to sell it to each client daily. I, as well as all of my other coworkers, have never tried any of the skin care products (they’re entirely out of my budget) and she knows this. I brought this up to her and she said “that’s fine, you just have to pretend that you use it”. She, as well as my other manager, except us to lie to clients and push products telling them it’s our favorite and we use it all the time. I feel incredibly uncomfortable with this and many aspects of this job make me feel like I am crossing my own moral…

What the title says. I’ve been working for a small family owned business while in college for the last year and a half. We currently have five employees besides the owner. I’m the oldest one. I used to absolutely love it, but I just can’t handle it anymore. I’ve gotten two concussions on the job. I have a stress fracture in my wrist from the constant repetitive motion. (I’ve already looked at workers comp, it’s too much for what I know will not be a high payout). I’m given all the responsibilities of a manager but at the same pay rate as the 15 year old working there. I genuinely cannot think about going in for my shift without nearly having a panic attack. I’ve applied for a few other jobs, and I’m waiting to hear back. I just feel so guilty about possibly leaving. I am the only one…