Antiwork

So I used to work at this small bakery in Colorado and finally quit at the end of November last year. I was there for about 1,5 years and even though the owner is a toxic lady, I tried to end it on good terms giving her about 3 weeks notice and even came in after to help on a day before Thanksgiving knowing how busy it would be. She acted all nice, saying she'll write me a good recommendation letter, which I never got on my last day and I was very busy with moving to another country, so I haven't gotten to contact her again until late December. No reply. Then I emailed her on 3(!) both her work and personal emails, asking once again for recommendation and W-2. Now it's been over 2 weeks since that. I found her on Facebook and messaged her there too, but…

I work at a gas station for the third shift on single coverage. I get paid minimum wage, and I don’t get a lunch break. I was okay with that when signing up… but my boss is so difficult to work for. I work constantly for my entire shift, but I sit for 20 min mid shift to rest my legs. She checks the camera when she comes into work so she can find things to be upset about. I should also add I also work a day job. I work 12-14 hours a day. I own my own business. I make enough money off the business to survive, but not flourish. I’m really tired of feeling like I’m walking on eggshells at my new job. I’m working the most dangerous job and shift (statistically) for literal poverty wages. Again, I was okay with that… but not if it means…

I really vibe with the posts on this sub but seeing all this stuff is just deeply frustrating… is anything gonna happen? Do we do stuff here or is it literally an echo chamber for the same thing to be said a million times in a millions different ways? Things have to change, how can we make it happen?

I work for a company where we go store to store stocking their moulding for them. When I was hired on the description I was given was I’d be assisting one of the older guys who had been there awhile. Apparently he’s still younger than 40 so not too old, but he has a shoulder injury from being there 9 years so his doctor only allows him to do the manual labor 4 hours a day at most. All this seemed fine and was cool when the first two months we were only doing 4ish hours a day and still getting paid full days. But since then, the last 3 months, they’ve added 3 new stores on top of our old workload, send my partner I was supposed to “assist” away somewhere else where he just has to write an order and he’s home within 3 hours while I do…

I recently started working at a particular chicken centered restaurant in the UK (not KFC) and today, I was scheduled for 4pm. At around 3:15, there was a fire drill at the student accommodation I'm staying in, meaning we all had to give our room number and stand around until everyone is accounted for. Now, when I was trained I was told that if I think I'll be late, I should call in, even if I only thing it's 1 minute. It takes 20 minutes to walk to work, and by the time I got all my stuff together from my room, it was 3:27. I figured I'd get there a few minutes early, get dressed and do the pre-shift COVID check (a qr code we have to scan in the locker room that asks us some questions about COVID symptoms etc) and then clock in. Well theres no signal…

How is it possible the local schools here can afford to pay their teachers over $100K/year, but everywhere else teachers are living in poverty? Any teachers that can comment on this? If this small town can do it, why can't the rest of the country? Teachers are the cornerstone of our children's future. I am so proud my town is doing this. I hope teachers far and wide get paid like this. ​ https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2020/school-districts/placer/tahoe-truckee-unified/?page=1

Five, if the funeral is out of town.

I’m a new hire and when I was onboarded, the people I work with were all “don’t hesitate to reach out!/we are your resources!“/etc etc blah blah blah. I am quickly learning that is not the case. Every time I email someone, even if it is a very necessary question, the email response is often 72 hours or more, and more often than not with a passive aggressive tone to boot. Superiors will promise things and never follow through, and the like. I know everyone has their own work to do, but I wish we could be more teammate-y about it. Instead I’m left to sink or swim, wherein I’ll for sure be punished for sinking. Fuck work.

I got a call for the interview and was told it's full time and that I'd have to drive up to a few hours a day. I would only be getting 40% per item for the first 20 items and then 50% for the next 20 and upwards of 60% for anything over 60. The per item rate was between $10-20 and takes anywhere from 15-30 minutes to assemble and that doesn't include the time it takes me to get the items pulled. So I figure I would realistically be getting at most $20 an hour. Now this isn't terrible until you consider that I might be driving 4 hours round trip and arrive to discover they only had 10 items to assemble and get half of $75 for 2 hours of work and 4 hours on the road which would cost me roughly $15 in gas. So for 6…