Antiwork

I’m sitting here uncontrollably bawling as I try to force myself to apply for jobs I know will make me miserable and unable to do anything else with my life. I’ve been unemployed for 6+ months and I’m still just as burnt out as the day I quit. I don’t know what I’m going to do. I need to pay rent and I’m supposed to be my best friends maid of honor next month, but I have 8 dollars to my name. This is tearing me apart. If I have to work another customer service job, I will have a full on breakdown, I know that for a fact.

A manager in a higher position than myself sent half my team on break during peak, forcing me to perform the roles of FOUR of them. I clocked off right next to her in the cramped office and walked out. This same individual contributes to bullying in the workplace and fuels rampant gossip about other innocent staff. On more than one occasion I've had to deal with customers who complained about this specific individual's behaviour, her being above me there's little I can do. Another incident included being asked to purchase paper for the store and not be compensated for my time or purchasing costs. After I quit the store is now left with one hospitalised shift supervisor (non-work-related-injury) and only two managers who can run a shift. Meaning that unless they get more managers they will both have to work 8+ hour shifts daily to keep the doors open.…

Hey all. I work with a Loan company in which part of my job is calling customers that are late on their loan payments. So many people are working paycheck to paycheck to pay it off. Many have had covid and can’t pay, and others simply have given up. It sickens me hearing how rough some of these people have it. People from all over, all ages, and all walks of life. I get it, if you get a loan, you have to pay it back eventually, or make monthly payments. Meanwhile celebrities are going to the super bowl on their private jets, CEOs are continuing to pay low because they decide to pay “market pay” and not what employees actually deserve. I’m tired. I try to be as empathetic as I can, but it’s just hard. I wish this country didn’t put people in this kind of situation where…

Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/snyc0l/employer_changing_my_job_duties_without_pay/ For anyone that was curious for an update, I discussed with my manager and only presented the first option (reassigning the project) because even if they did agree to a 40k raise, I still wouldn't be happy because ultimately, I don't want to do that work. Good news, my manager talked to the director and they are going to reassign the project! So a big FUCK YOU to the folks who found it necessary to DM me to tell me how much of an idiot I am and that I'm going to be fired for telling them “no”. This ended well but I did a lot of thinking last week and don't know that I want to work here anyways because I'm not engaged with the work. I updated my resume and sent out a couple apps last Friday and have some phone screens lined up this week…

I've also done the same thing at my company: use vacation time to get a break from your normal duties so you can work on a special project for work. And this is considered normal in our workplaces. This subreddit is helping me see how utterly messed up this is.

Annually my company begs us to donate to a fund for employees in need…from other employees. Why not pay them more? Why don't YOU pay the money? Since they track “participation” I always donate $1.00 to get us a high donation ratio but it's effectively $0.00 so I don't feel like I'm selling myself out too badly.

…..and on top of the federal/state laws on individual rates, there was a collective percent required to go to the labor pool? What if Tesla, Apple, Google, Microsoft etc all had to pay, let’s say, 50% of all revenue to labor. If they pay over, fine. If they end up paying under, they have to spread out a yearly bonus to meet that percentage. My state forces health insurance providers to spend 80% of all money coming in on peoples’ care. The professional sports leagues have a revenue sharing deal with the players. Why not publicly traded companies? And maybe smaller private businesses have a lesser percentage.