Antiwork

I worked for this company for 17 years. I used to be full time operations manager until I had a child. When I had a child I relinquished my responsibilities as manager in order to work part time. My employer made me part time assistant manager, with a decent wage. I took the offer. Fast forward 7months and my employer has notified me that my current work arrangement ‘isn’t working for the company’ and that ‘in her opinion 7 months is long enough to adjust to motherhood and it’s time to come back to work.’ She proposed 4 options to me: two of which involve working full time again, which I do not have childcare so they are out of the questions. One of which involves a significant pay cut and loosing my families health insurance due to keeping part time schedule. The last is none. This is a slap…

there is no earthly way that I have to, right? I was incredibly upfront in my interview that I’m disabled, I’m chronically ill, there will be times when I can’t come in. my boss himself has never asked, but I have a supervisor who absolutely won’t drop it and asks multiple times, every time to the point that it’s unbearable. I’ve worked there for 8 months and I’ve only called out 3 times which is like, not absolutely outlandish for someone in my position and I had actually been enjoying a string of good health. In November, I nearly fainted at work and then spent a week in the hospital with sepsis. It makes sense that she would want to know, but it’s also just my business and I don’t always feel like sharing, and I don’t think I should have to. I don’t know if it’s just that she…

Basically the title, I got laid off two+ weeks ago due to a decline in sales at the company I worked at. I had been working there two years as a full time employee in our production department. We had a woman who started spring of last year. (Less than a year of employment) She was part time as she left early everyday, sometimes 3 or more hours before our shifts ended. (It varied day to day) I asked my boss why I was chosen when I'm a full time good employee, who's been with the company longer, and it's “because she has kids.” Fuck me then, I guess. Being a parent is hard, I have no ill feelings towards her, but I know there's no way she was supporting herself and two kids, and paying for competitive gymnastics for her daughter, on her part time pay. Meanwhile I've been…

This has happened once or twice to me and much more to others and it is always when we do not have enough people to work. Instead of properly covering the shifts she puts people already scheduled elsewhere on the same shift that needs filled. Since I work in healthcare, by law, I have to stay over. Tonight she did this and is forcing me to work over into midnight despite having a full morning schedule as a parent. I am having to call people in the middle of the night to take care of the kids tomorrow morning and there is nothing I can do. I want to quit, I really do, but I have no idea where I would go that would work with my current chaotic schedule. I just want to sit in a corner right now.