Antiwork

Pay is way above the cost of living in my town, we get catered lunches 3 days a week (MWF that we order ahead of time and individual meals are labeled with our names to ensure we each get what we wanted), the break areas are always full of free snacks/drinks, we are encouraged to take care of our physical and mental health as well as our financial wellbeing with free resources provided for us, the company pays for 80% of our insurance (health/vision/dental with eligibility for enrollment starting on day 1), and we have 14 paid holidays (aside from our personal PTO/sick days) every year. In addition to all these perks, I really love my new boss. She treats me with respect, asks for my input, and listens when I talk. She sincerely asks me how I’m doing/adjusting everyday (I moved over 1,000 miles for this job), and asks…

I'm a fitter/Welder, same as my dad. I didn't have the money to go to uni, so it's what I do until I figure out something else. I've been working for 5 years in the industry now. I'm making $27.85hr, might get up to $30 (CAD) this year when I finish my red seal. My dad has made around $30 an hour since the early 2000s. The company he works for has been trying to get him to take a supervisor position for the past ten years. There offer is a $1.20 raise. It's just become draining. My only other options atm are to go work out west, in shitty weather outside for 12 hours a day 7 days a week on whatever rotation is available, or do the same up in the canadian Arctic. I love the work I do, but it's already hard enough on my body at…

There was a complimentary dinner prize for who ever showed up to all their shifts thru the holidays. The managers would be the waiters and the chefs prepared all the food personally. One coworker was part of the dinner and clocked into her shift at my location next door when she finished. Dinner was done and the managers were leaving with bags of food. Fast forward to closing, there's 8 of us closing and 1 supervisor (she's pregnant), the closing manager asked to see the supervisor in the other room privately. We had just finished closing our location and was about to be out a good hour early. A few minutes pass and my supervisor comes back in and told us, “The managers want a volunteer or 2 to stay and finish cleaning the complimentary dinner next door.” All of us said hell no! Until we realized that if we…

When my grandmother passed, I attempted to take leave but it blew up in my face. The night before my first day of leave, I notified everyone I thought I needed to notify. I informed everyone that I would have to travel and help with funeral arrangements and I wouldn’t know when I would return until after we set a date for the funeral. My hope was to take the week off using my three allotted bereavement days plus two sick days. However, I was also aware that there was a chance the funeral wouldn’t take place until the week after so everything was very up in the air. I let everyone know that I would be checking my email when I could in case anything urgent was needed from me. I was stupid enough to think that people would show some level of respect and restraint though and just…

If weren’t legal marijuana, this pandemic would have driven me more insane.