Antiwork

I am having major surgery in January. I live far away from family in a city by myself, and I’m single. I have no one to help me with intimate post-surgery healing. My sister asked her workplace if she could work remotely for a couple days so she could fly to stay with me, and they told her no. Her job is literally paperwork processing and the entire job could easily be done online. I am just so sad, angry, and disappointed. She’s convinced if she escalates it they’d just fire her, and she has a 1 year old to take care of so that’s not an option. But of course nepotism runs wild and the owner’s family/friends can do whatever they want whenever they want. I don’t understand how people can be so goddamn heartless. Especially when the impact on them is literally ZERO.

Dusted off my old account that was only made because it was a graded class project. Instantly remembered why I avoided this site. Every moment spent on Corporate Circlejerk Facebook takes days off my lifespan. Post after post of people sucking themselves off about employers that dont care about them and “the-whole-bus-clapped” anecdotes. If you're not a boot-licking cog preaching about your unhealthy grindset, you're an out of touch recruiter bitching about how no one has an unhealthy grindset. It's all so fake and forced. The thought of some faceless company account leaving “Welcome to the family :)” comments on new hires' posts makes me want to vomit. “Family” my ass, they don't care if you live or die.

Management pressures employees to get at least 2 google reviews per shift, per employee, and cares way too much about them. Management doesn't understand that it's impossible to force customers to do something like that if they don't really want to. Constantly tired of hearing advice on how to socially manipulate the interaction in order to get them.comes off as extremely disingenuous and fake. I have legit seen customers take a snap of the QR code and then put the phone back in their pockets, shit is exhausting and we get lectured later on for not getting the reviews.

Housing

22F- I work in a grocery store (believe me- I am looking for another job. Starting my own business, this is just work in the mean time). Anyway to preface this- I am not perfect, I love interacting with people and customers which is why they love me so much and I can sometimes talk more that intended and get distracted easily. However my customer service is really good and this is one of the things that I get complimented for all the time. Another issue of mine is being late to work. Again- totally own that- but the reason is- attendance is so chill at my work, my DIRECT managers are always saying “i'm late everyday I don't even care” and they laugh it off so I didn't think it was super enforced. So these are my weaknesses in the job, but I am SUPER open to criticism and…

I’m employed by a company that supervises union longshore work. We are the only salary employees in longshore work in our area as the union and port employees are all hourly and also make more than us. Also we frequently work more than 40 hrs a week with no overtime. None of that has ever really bothered me but in the last year or two our company has created a shift that doesn’t allow for a lunch break which I absolutely hate working. It’s hard to explain it shortly but I’ll try my best. Basically because we aren’t union we don’t work the same shifts as the union does. My company has basically a day crew and night crew and day crew works from 0600 till 1800. And there are times that a union shift will end at 1200 and new shift will start at 1300. So on those days…

Never been fired before I’m still in shock . It’s a coffee shop which I’ve had 5+ years of barista experience so they didn’t even have to train me . First day was great but then the second day the owner came in I introduced myself and everything seemed fine . One point I went out into the dine in area where the owner and the manager where having a meeting to sweep. Went home and thought everything was cool . Well apparently not because when I went into work the next morning the manager pulled me aside and told me the owner was watching me the whole time while I was sweeping and said I wasn’t gonna last long if I wasn’t gonna smile. I was kinda confused because when I was on the register I’m always smiling and friendly in fact at my last job my manager legit…

So, I live in Utah, which is not a right to work state. I used to monitor security alarms, burglar, fire, panic, medical, the works. I was on the grave shift for most of my employment. On the grave shift, I came across a boss who treated the workers like garbage. We could never bring issues to her without being scolded heavily. It was various stuff, yelling at us for following policy, degrading people, hell the policies they did enforce, they didn't follow themselves. For example, they dated a coworker on the same shift. I moved shifts because of her. Not even a couple weeks later, the day shift gets me comfortable with speaking up about it, and I start opening up to the leadership. Not a week or two later, they are talking about discipline or getting rid of me. They finally did that, calling it work avoidence.