Antiwork

Got fired from my last job which was sort of casual entertainment but had a pretty severe health hazard. Fired. For bringing up the hazard too much and refusing to basically just grin and bear it. Current job is basically secretarial work for an insane entrepreneur who moooost of the time is really nice, pays me well, lenient, easy work… But every now and then likes to take out their own personal frustrations on me, hurl personal insults at me, start arguments over nothing, and generally verbally and emotionally abuse me simply to re-assert their status. It actually 100% mirrors abuse I endured before in non business relationship and it’s really freaky. Normally I would have quit by now but the pay:workload ratio is fantastic and, I don’t think I could get another job right now if I wanted to. I know because I’ve been trying. After the rage episodes,…

What excuses are coming up? On one side, companies like apple have said, “our offices are awesome, we’ve invested a lot into them. you must enjoy them”. Which is fair enough. But the excuse, “I didn’t hire you for remote work”, or “because I’m the boss and I say so” just don’t sit right with me. So I want to know, what excuses are being thrown around? For context, I was listening to a podcast by 99% invisible on the future of office design and tons of people are leaving companies that are forcing people back to the office.

Pay is way above the cost of living in my town, we get catered lunches 3 days a week (MWF that we order ahead of time and individual meals are labeled with our names to ensure we each get what we wanted), the break areas are always full of free snacks/drinks, we are encouraged to take care of our physical and mental health as well as our financial wellbeing with free resources provided for us, the company pays for 80% of our insurance (health/vision/dental with eligibility for enrollment starting on day 1), and we have 14 paid holidays (aside from our personal PTO/sick days) every year. In addition to all these perks, I really love my new boss. She treats me with respect, asks for my input, and listens when I talk. She sincerely asks me how I’m doing/adjusting everyday (I moved over 1,000 miles for this job), and asks…

I'm a fitter/Welder, same as my dad. I didn't have the money to go to uni, so it's what I do until I figure out something else. I've been working for 5 years in the industry now. I'm making $27.85hr, might get up to $30 (CAD) this year when I finish my red seal. My dad has made around $30 an hour since the early 2000s. The company he works for has been trying to get him to take a supervisor position for the past ten years. There offer is a $1.20 raise. It's just become draining. My only other options atm are to go work out west, in shitty weather outside for 12 hours a day 7 days a week on whatever rotation is available, or do the same up in the canadian Arctic. I love the work I do, but it's already hard enough on my body at…

There was a complimentary dinner prize for who ever showed up to all their shifts thru the holidays. The managers would be the waiters and the chefs prepared all the food personally. One coworker was part of the dinner and clocked into her shift at my location next door when she finished. Dinner was done and the managers were leaving with bags of food. Fast forward to closing, there's 8 of us closing and 1 supervisor (she's pregnant), the closing manager asked to see the supervisor in the other room privately. We had just finished closing our location and was about to be out a good hour early. A few minutes pass and my supervisor comes back in and told us, “The managers want a volunteer or 2 to stay and finish cleaning the complimentary dinner next door.” All of us said hell no! Until we realized that if we…