Antiwork

As a small business owner, it is frustrating when employees quit with no notice and via text or email. Hired an office manager (26) in September. I trained her on our procedures, how to enroll kids in classes, schedule make ups, birthday parties, etc…. In December she asked me about increasing her pay. She was doing a wonderful job, very reliable, has only called out sick once in three and a half months. I increased her pay rate, and even put her on salary, since we would be open less over the holiday break. Also, now that she was salary, that gave her P.T.O. In January she missed, or called out of work 8 times. On January 24th she put in 2 weeks notice since her family was having issues, Mother admitted to hospital, Father in a psych ward, and had to take care of people in the evenings. I…

Already posted this in r/ADHD, would appreciate any input from you guys. I’m a 22yo woman who is a bit lost. At 18 I went to university to study Anthropology because I was moderately depressed and it was the only thing I was interested in, other than art and writing, that felt sensible. I thought I would go the academic track and eventually do my own fieldwork through whatever university I’m doing my PhD at. Except I barely graduated high school, and have failed 3rd year of uni twice. Have since discovered I have ADD/inattentive ADHD and don’t think it’s very realistic or fair to myself to continue in such an academic path when I struggle to keep up. I would love to find a temporary job where I can be financially independent and figure things out, but I’m in the Middle East where any service/skill/labour job pays pennies, and…

I am a finance director. We shouldn’t use Robert Half, but we do. I’ve been trying to change this and hire the professional directly. They just sent a letter saying there will be a 1.65% increase for inflation. On Robert Half’s bill, they break out payroll costs, so you can back out the money actually retained by Robert Half. The increase did not go to the professional’s payroll costs, meaning he didn’t get a raise through Robert Half. The increase goes to Robert Half. We are in trouble. I figured this out because I scheduled out all bills received for the year. I should post the analysis because it’s jarring.

I just want to make this post because I'm a big supporter of this group. People are treated disgracefully in the workplace by management and by capitalism in general. Reading these posts every day are a reminder that we're not alone and that we don't have to put up with being treated as sub-human slaves. We can take action like speak out, report them, write reviews, or leave. Thanks for all the amazing advice and support given from all commenters. That aside I have to make clear, doing fuck all in work every day and leaving your colleagues to do all your jobs while you get paid just as much or more is not on! And that is NOT the antiwork sentiment meant in this sub.

So this is going to be a kind of long one. I will try and keep it clear and to the point…a little background, in August of 2020 I had an ACL graft. I took a forklift job after healing up as my last job was too rough on my body. Fast forward to June of 2021, my knee was healing up nicely and I thought everything was great. At the time I was driving a hyster 60 and my group lead drove a hyster 100. He had a vacation day so I was jumping back and forth driving his forklift when I needed to move heavier galvanized coils. My boss was talking to me while I was unwrapping a the coil. I was one person doing two peoples work so I was rushing and was flustered with my boss trying to talk to me while I was doing this.…

I am currently employed but my direct boss is less than fantastic. I have been put in a fortunate situation of having multiple interviews aligned with a few companies but one is aggressively making an offer. I don’t want to decline but I also feel accepting without feeling out other opportunities would sell myself short? Unsure of what to do here. This subreddit, despite the controversy, did inspire me to seek out other opportunities and now I’m at a loss on how to not fuck myself over because the market is so open from both sides.