Antiwork

So, this just happened to my wife. Her colleague called in sick who as supposed to be oncall and will need to do a night shift. My wife agreed to cover her, since it'll be considered overtime and wouldn't need to do a day shift the following day, naturally. Prior to the night shift, she finished work at 4pm, and was told to start her night shift at 11pm. Just before 11pm, she was told to start at 1am instead, ok no big deal. She started her shift as told at 1am. At 6:30am, her manager called her, saying that as she had at least “8 hour rest between shifts” prior to starting her night shift, her night shift will be considered a normal rate shift without any penalties, and that she “shouldn't rush to finish” in the morning and should continue working a full shift until late morning/mid day…

That way boxes don’t pile up chaotically around the office and the temp won’t have to sift through burdensome binders to sort through shipping what to where.

Background: I'm from the UK, moved abroad to teach physics and now I'd like to return to the UK and get a job in something vaguely related to STEM. When I started applying for jobs in February, I found that lots of STEM employers have defence contracts with the government. It turns out that I would need security clearance to work for them and a requirement is that I would have had to have lived in the UK for the last 5 years. I thought it would only be a few employers but I've been applying for months now and I'm just getting immediate, automatic rejections from every single job I apply for. I've applied to 50+ jobs in the last few months, all entry level, and I'm absolutely losing my mind. What's the point in even having a physics degree if literally no one will hire me in my…

Very early 2000s I worked for a place that paid a lowish basic but very good commission. Good earners were on over £60k/pa which was mega money in your twenties in those days. Unfortunately it was an insane work environment, the last of the boiler room inspired sales environments where the manager would walk round and ask why you weren’t on the phone or how many times you’d got up to go to the toilet. The interview process was four x three hour interviews. You had to do general knowledge quizzes, role plays, tell a joke, sing a song. Basically prove you had no inhibitions and were in it for the money. Work was Monday to Thursday 0800-1730 but you had to stay behind voluntarily for at least another 2 hrs to set yourself up for the next day. On Friday you could leave at 1730 unless it was your…

I work in a very small private healthcare setting, 36hrs / week meaning in California, we don’t get jack in terms of benefits. We get a total of 24 sick hours to use at our dispense annually and thats it. We have 90% of federal holidays off ( paid ) and besides that we have 0 ( ZERO ) other benefits. I will reach 1 year of employment at the end of October which is my timeline for this job, and Ideally I should not leave anytime before then due to diminishing chances at my next job if I am not employed for at least a year. I used up all my sick hours already this year, its only 24 the WHOLE YEAR. I submitted a request for days off in November, unpaid, and 5 days here and there towards the end of the year as well. My employer straight…