Antiwork

Just took a call, not to give anything away but I work for a pretty big home improvement chain. A woman called who wanted a walk-in tub, an associate had already put in for somebody to call her and she hadn't heard from anyone, so I looked in the system. Got her name, nowhere to be found. Asked when they put it in, nothing under the date. She said they read back the information and everything, this is ridiculous that nobody called her, yadda yadda…. The only thing I can do is put another one in, so I tell her. She obviously doesn't like that answer and says, “You're obviously not the sharpest tool in the box”. I explain I'm just trying to help move everything forward but if she's going to be nasty then I can't help her. The next thing I know she starts screeching, “I am the…

I work in a senior position on a team of 3 in an IT company. Burnout, stress, and being over worked are a huge problem at the company. A lot of people end up quitting within one year, mainly due to all the stress. I wont say me and my coworkers are un-fireable (because no position is) but if they were to fire us, it would be INCREADIBLY inconvenient for the company. Anyway, the other week in our team meeting our Boss brought up quarterly bonuses to increase morale. At first this sounded amazing! But then it said the bonuses would be about $300 and you had to work 12hr days, and be oncall 24/7 to qualify. I said something along the lines of “I'd rather not” Boss started asking probing questions like “Why not?” “Your telling me you don't want free money?” and “Its practically $100 extra dollars a…

I started this job about a year and a half ago, my hours are 9-5 and we get a 45min paid lunch. Recently, they told us that, to “align across teams” we would be going to an unpaid 30mg lunch and we have to extend our scheduled hours to 9-5:30. This means my work hours extend 30min and I’m working an extra 45min each day with no extra pay (salaried non-exempt). Is this legal? Is there anything I can do? Sure as hell isn’t ethical. Bonus: They told us during our 1×1 to stifle the outcry, told us there’d be a team wide meeting to discuss, then when that never happened we’re told it’s now going to be an e-mail instead.

Reading everyone’s posts here, it seems obvious they all have one thing in common, it’s almost always in the US. This can be confirmed by most non US people comments that always seem to not even understand how it’s possible. If a drunk driver ran over your child, would you be anti cars or anti drunk drivers? Well sorry guys, but the US is one massive drunk driver that’s been on a bender for quite some time now. But know that there’s a reality where things are better, and this reality isn’t one where work doesn’t exist.

In a sea full of jobs – ya there's a lot, but it's all only part time? Where's all the full time work? It's wild that the part time jobs are offering close to $30 a hour with less than 20hours a week but the full time is only offering less than $20 a hour? Is this some sort of company expression to the Canadian government that they're offering a “livable wage” but left out the livable amount of hours? Does anyone else notice this?

Has anyone ever faked a competing job offer in order to leverage more money from their current company and if so, how did that work out for you? My company was recently acquired by a larger/shittier Corp and so naturally several people have left. For the most part new company doesn't care but some of the more valuable ( but non-upper management like myself) employees were offered substantial raises to stay. (They didn't.) I make good money for my geographic location but mediocre for my actual job title so I'm thinking of asking my boss if he'll match my “offer” without officially putting in my two weeks or anything. Is this a terrible idea? I am asking here because a lot of people I know are stuck in the “never rock the boat, don't bite the hand, we should appreciate our overlords” bs that I no longer ascribe to. I…