Antiwork

My work is having a “meeting” soon. I work in an office, I believe it’s a meeting to go over the last year of work, profits, how the company is doing, etc. It’s for 2 hours on a weekday after working hours, in person (my office is in person too). Debating staying clocked in through the meeting and clocking out when I leave, and seeing what HR says at pay time. They haven’t said if it is or isn’t “paid” or mandatory, but went around asking if we’d be going. Not “mandatory” but essentially mandatory. One of those. They’re giving us pizza, and no one knows why we’re meeting. Especially since we had two Christmas parties last month, only one of which during work hours, so we’ve all been together recently. Don’t get me wrong, I like my coworkers, I’m “committed” to the company, but it feels like this could’ve…

Basically one of them was saying “That girl, T, you know that student, well she's always telling me like two weeks in advance that she won't be able to work. Like what am I supposed to do about that? She doesn't have vacation she's supposed to work the days I want. She just doesn't feel like a team player” Fr this is the dumbest thing I heard ever.

He is cutting shifts if people are calling in sick not doing what he wants immediately forgetting policies or for not following “if you've got time to lean you've got time to clean” 100% of the time

Let me explain. About a week ago I got my first ever job. It's a retail job in a medium-sized electrical equipment store. It's not a particularly difficult job and I'm decent at it (so far). It's not that I'm lazy and I don't want to work, I help out around the house all the time, I'm always busy at home, but at least I am at home. The sheer fact that I have a job that I have to go to on a daily basis is soul crushing. Never in my 20 years of life have I been depressed or felt this miserable. Just yesterday, while stocking some shelves I thought to myself “this is my life now, this is what I do now”, and it gave me genuine existential crisis. I come home too tired to be able to enjoy anything anymore, and the though of having to…

Basically the title. Our district manager has brutally chopped hours. Department managers are working alone. There will only be self checkout open from here on out (at least in this store). And they are putting in vacation hours for department managers without their permission. Can they do that? In NY by the way.