Antiwork

Just transferred to a new job full time, mostly a man’s type job. Haven’t had any issues with the men, but the fellow aged women (50+) ask me today asked why am I working. My husband has been working for 28years in a government job & one of the women knows him & told the other female who my husband is & how much he makes. They flat out ask why are you working and you can go back to your previous job if you want. I’m pulling my weight, but I feel like I’m imitating them. I’m doing the same job as them but still learning. I returned to work because after my husband retires we will lose our medical insurance. We have 2 adult children still on our medical insurance plan and I take a VERY EXPENSIVE MEDICATION and we can’t afford to lose our medical insurance. I…

This just happened to my wife: She worked at a company for 7 years. She found another job, which is more accommodating to her needs and decided to take it. She likes the people she works with now, so she told the new company she would start in 2 weeks in order to give her current company the professional 2 week notice, not to leave them high and dry. Well, she got an email that day saying her resignation was accepted immediately, so she is no longer with the company. Now we're stuck missing 2 weeks pay and I currently have no health insurance. So much for doing the right thing.

Just a quick rant I guess. I work part time doing social media posts for small businesses. I do it for a franchise owner of a small business – it’s all assistant stuff, I have a couple of colleagues who do admin, bookkeeping, etc. but I’m the social media one. I don’t tend to manage the accounts, just write content and go kind of thing. From what I know, my boss finds the clients, they negotiate, and then she assigns one of us the job. E.G., SME asks for diary management, colleague 1 deals with it. SME asks for an infographic to go in their email newsletter, I do it, etc. I get paid £10 an hour, going up to £11 an hour in a few weeks. I get just under £500 a month. It’s not set hours, as long as I get it done before the deadline it doesn’t…

I work at a grocery store in California that is considered one of the best employers you can work for in the area. On the “top 100” list and everything. Still, we are infantilized. Some idiot in corporate decided that their project of the year would be introducing a “stretch reminder.” This means a song in our store plays every two hours. Every. Two. Hours. From before the store opens at 4am all the way until our night crew comes at 11pm. And what is the song? The goddamn song we have to hear every single day multiple times a day? Uptown Funk. Morale is down, tension is up, and I can’t listen to another goddamn word of this song. Soon, I think we will all stretch during the entire song to retaliate.

As the title says really, I saw a post like this recently where someone from mainland Europe said he couldn’t believe how you were treated in the States. I’m from the UK and we have lots of protections written into law about howemployees can and cannot be treated. I’m disgusted about how American employers can get away with the shit that they do (even the high profile ones like Twitter). These are things that just wouldn’t happen in the UK. Being fired in the UK can be a long and drawn out process but in America it seems to be done almost on a whim. Keep fighting for your rights and (as we say in the UK) don’t let the bastards grind you down.

In other words fuck the original owners and management. Not even someone hired after me had to have that raise

I made a list I just want to see if this is the right place to post it. These companies are a waste of time they lie and expect a lot of output from the candidates before even working there I have about 18 companies just want to know if it’ll be helpful to anyone here.