Antiwork

So it was Saturday night my immediate supervisor leaves early for the night to get home putting me in charge of closing down the kitchen. I close down the kitchen like we do every single night making sure everything is clean, trash is taken out, all equipment is turned off and properly cleaned and shut down as to not potentially burn the place down. Well I walk into work yesterday morning from a three day weekend to a very upset boss. He claims equipment was left on: one of the friers, two ovens and some other price of equipment was left on over the three days we were gone. In my defense I know for a fact I turned off all equipment and even double and triple checked to make sure it was all off. Well as I was walking out the door he writes me up claiming I put…

I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed and I don't really understand what life cover is? My contract states that my life cover is 4 times my basic salary, which is £5,700 What does it mean?

I don't know if it's just an American thing, because I haven't experienced it myself (Sweden), but all this “have a piece of candy”, “Pizza party” and other bullshit just seems to be a way for employers to tell themselves that they aren't cheap. A lot of the things I've seen here (candy, popcorn and other BS) hurts more than it helps (I would assume) since it's an “effort” made by employers to acknowledge their staff, but by doing so, they simply highlight how little the value their employees. Inflation is, as always, hurt the people who aren't apart of the rich. Either use whatever money is left on wages instead of pizza's and shit. I know it won't do much difference, but all this nonsense with “employee appreciation” shit is a perfect example where less is more.

I'm on secondment since Sept 22 until June. My role involves working on a project to deliver research on X topic for local businesses. I have a research background but my experience is in Y topic. I applied for the role as genuinely thought I could make it work and would be supported to do so. The previous post holder did very little while in the role despite having the right experience and credentials to deliver. We have targets ~this is important~ and because they did so little work, I'm in the position of making these targets. I'm having to due a huge ton of background work to write the reports we deliver to businesses because none of this is my academic specialism. The targets are non negotiable (this is a gov funded contract, targets set at the start of the project and no way to change them now three…