Antiwork

I'm unemployed right now and I've applied for a job that needs a special education which the company I would work for would pay and provide. The catch is that I need to sign a document that says I need to work for them and can't quit for two years or else I'll have to pay them back what the education costs. It's about 21000$. I really need a job, and this is the only one around my area that I've got some experience in. But I just can't sign my life away like that. For one I would feel like a fucking slave, having to buy my freedom if I want to quit. And I'm the kind of person that can get really bored and really dislike my job. Please tell me it's okay to say no to this. Everyone around me including my parents are pushing me to…

There's a Starbucks a block from me and I have a lot more free time now. Any accurate and concise leaflets I could pass out in front?

If yes, why? How did you move on? If no regrets, why?

It's been a long time since I've had a job with manual labor, but I remember how annoying a lot of people would be when training and expecting you to be fast on day 1. I'm rewatching Undercover Boss and Bar Rescue and this reminds me of the stupidity of the situations, I get that they're shows but the way people act is how a lot of them acted in real life too. I get extremely annoyed when they expect someone to be fast on day one, to the point I felt the need to make a post about it. You need to train someone to do it right and the speed will come, just yelling 'do it faster' 'too slow' honestly just makes the situation worse and they start making mistakes. These people act like on day 1 they expect a brand new person to be as fast as…

I’ve been working at a new place for THREE WEEKS, first two weeks went great i can’t lie. First day i get called and ask to come in because someone is sick, it isn’t the location i signed up for but working somewhere else is better than staying home and doing nothing. After that i only get work at the other location which i didn’t sign up for, i still go while not worrying because it wasn’t that far from my house. Now two weeks later i get a call from a supervisor saying that something went wrong and i can’t work at the other location anymore because i didn’t do a “all around training” after that someone else calls me and says i can work at the other locations and should just show up at work, while at work someone gets called by the supervisor and the supervisor tells…

Cross Post from r/maliciouscompliance: I work a consulting engineer designing and implementing systems (network and server) upgrades for organizations with worldwide locations. When initially hired by my company the agreement was I would get paid for every hour I worked, usually 40 hours a week when at the home site, up to 80+ hours per week when at the customer's location. No overtime, just straight time as my position is “exempt”. While on-site I would also be paid MI&E (Lodging expenses, Mileage expenses, and Meal & Incidental Expenses) to include rental car. MI&E can add up to a couple thousand a week in places like Hawaii, Japan or England. Flash forward a few years and the company has been bought and merged a couple of times and the new company decides that exempt employees are now salary and will not pay for any hours over 40 plus of course no…

I live in FL, At will employee. I resigned and I keep getting calls from management and ex coworkers. Has anyone gone through this?

I will preface this by saying I understand that it's not all boomers and that there are plenty of socialist boomers out there who are with us. There are also plenty of conservative boomers out there who are still working because they weren't able to benefit from the economic situation for one reason or another, and I feel for them too even though they vote against their best interests. The Boomer generation took the most fertile economy that America could offer from world war II – the economy that our depression-era grandparents fought really hard and worked really hard to create – and they succeeded in it. That old economy allowed our grandparents to retire and live very comfortably on the pensions that they created. By retiring, they opened up space for the boomers to take their jobs and then also make a good life for themselves. The problem is…

I'm a Licensed Massage Therapist and the last 4 years I worked for a chiropractor. When the pandemic started the chiro made it very clear that they thought the virus was a hoax. I should have left then.. but I loved my clients and the chiro didn't force his choices on me so I was always masked throughout the day. The week of Christmas, the chiro came in super sick. (I assume it was covid but they were never tested) Proceeded to work with clients without a mask. At lunch, they told me they were going to take the rest of the week off and to inform our clients that “They are off for winter break” Ethically and morally.. I was not going to do that. So I packed up my car, left the key on the back table, and walked out. Texted the boss to tell them today was…