Antiwork

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.

I know a lot of people on here will fight and fight like hell for what is right. but in terms of the larger population, most people will not fight at all and will just buckle over when the going gets tough and simply become corporate boot lickers. This has been mostly my experience. If there is some issue in the workplace where lots of workers agree it is an issue, I would suggest some sort of tactic to put pressure on management to change something. Out of a group of 10 people, I would probably get 7/10 to agreed to do some sort of action but management starts pushing back, everyone will simply collapse any resistance and go back to groveling at the feet of the corporate masters. No wonder nothing actually changes decade after decade – because most people aren't doing jack shit!

The company I worked for before my department was sold was known for being generous with pay and reward & recognition, but when I joined I found whilst they really were good with pay the reward and Recognition side was awful. Then they stopped giving good pay. Here are some examples 1: I work for a phone and broadband company and we don't own networks, but have contracts with other network providers who sell access wholesale. We were moving from one to another in a mass migration and I was asked to lead a team to deal with fallout and identify issues. We were promised a reward for the work due to how hectic it'd be so I agreed. It was hectic. Found issues they hadn't considered and solutions to them. My team has a very positive attitude when things went bad and we did overtime to help fix them.…