Antiwork

Why is it that you have to show allegiance to a company for multiple years in the professional world and can’t just hop around at your leisure? Am I the only one who would feel so much more freedom if this were not the case? Like, working in any other industry besides a corporate one doesn’t come with this (silly) expectation I wish this shit was normalized so godamn bad

I recently got a new job (working at Chipotle), and I’m surprised at how not horrible it is. I applied and during orientation told them that I can only work Monday-Thursday and they said that was fine. I got a cold between my orientation and my first day so I called off and they were cool with it and it changed nothing. Everyone is eligible for benefits even if they aren’t full time, you get a full free meal after every shift, people get promoted really quickly (it seems like almost everyone’s a manager if they’ve worked for over a couple of months), and the pay isn’t bad. I was scheduled Friday this week so I told the GM that I can’t work Friday’s and she said “ok that’s fine” and that was that. It’s company policy that if you call off or request off then you’re off the hook…

In more unbelievable shit my place of employment is doing, I am suddenly required to read a “Book of the Month” and write a 500 word synopsis. I’m a casual worker – I pack boxes – and they’ve slashed my hours to less than half and now this shit. Nowhere in my contract does it say I have to do this but my megalomaniac boss has decreed this task as mandatory and we will “get a written warning” if we miss 3 submissions. Yes: I am madly scrambling to find another job but in the meantime I am FURIOUS that I’m being made to feel like I’m back in high school while I make LESS than $350 a week. And yeah imma use ChatGPT to write the damn thing, but I need to vent about how awful this workplace is somewhere!