Antiwork

Curious because as far as I know, when it comes to days off for Christmas, if it ends up on a weekend, we get the Monday or Friday off. So how come some companies don’t do the same when it’s comes to Easter since it’s on a Sunday?

Just wanted to say thanks for the absolute hookup! Stopped in for some lunch grub for myself and my SO and on top of letting me know before hand about pricing/portion changes this legend completely ignored those changes and just started stuffing wings in a box and labeled it at the cheapest price Made our day especially because we had just been saying how bs it was that Wal-Mart decided to increase prices for stricter/smaller portions on our favorite deli wings. I hope to see more and more “for the people” worker retaliation against these “need to see higher profits no matter what” companies.

I worked at a Phone service company when I was 19m. Along with phones I had to sell a “tv service”, well I was particularly good at selling this and when the beginning of the month rolled around I was ready. From the 1st-9th I set up 39 accounts( mind you our store quota was 20 over 9 reps so I thought I was fine.) So I stopped pushing that product since I was well above the quota. Come around the 29th and my District Manager was in and my manager and the DM called me into the office. When I sit down they start talking about “oh you haven't set up any “tv service accounts” since the 9th” and how I need to work harder on trying to sell this in the future. They ended up writing me up even though I was soaring above everyone's quota. I quit…

Have you ever had a boss that just, disappeared forever? I’m leading a software implementation project and a team of about 6 people. I’m keeping most of the show going, but obviously the other 6 are doing a lot of work. I do a lot of client interaction. I also do most of the interaction with people who work for another consulting company on the project. I plan on disappearing soon, and not going to give anybody at work a heads up. One day I just won’t be there. I’m treated pretty well and enjoy my job, but I can’t share with coworkers that I’m going to disappear. I think a lot about what would end up happening when I do this. Would they figure it out in hours or would it take days. Would they meet deadlines with me gone. I’ve also considered sending a farewell email in the…

I’ve been fortunate to have a desk job for most of my life: I was surprised when my friend told me their retail job keeps them part time but “oncall”. They explained the time while oncall is unpaid but must be available in case a manager needs to backfill empty shifts. This effectively makes scheduling a second job hard because they have a part time job which occupies 60 hours of their week. Is this common in the service industry now? I’m disgusted by the practice and think it needs to be abolished immediately. If you ask for a person’s time, you must pay them. If a business doesn’t want to pay people to be oncall they should staff their shifts with enough people to accommodate call outs.

My job currently pays me minimum wage for my 10 minute breaks instead of the wage I make when I’m “actually working” and thinks giving me 1 free month of BetterHelp is sufficient payment.

I work in Quality Control. Our business has 1 QC Tech scheduled per shift and between shifts the tech prints out paperwork for various samples the next shift will test throughout their shift. I noticed that one of the batches had the numbers transposed incorrectly by having the last two digits swapped. This is unusual because our system doesn’t allow for paperwork to be printed without a batch number being generated previously. So if XY is already in the system XY paperwork will be able to be printed. However if YX is not in the system then YX paperwork doesn’t exist to print. We have a schedule and YX isn’t on it so the paperwork shouldn’t exist and shouldn’t be able to be entered into the system. On top of that all our instruments are set up by the proceeding tech and the wrong batch number was also inputted. I…

Had a meeting with my boss last week where she described the ways she wants to continue to evolve our team’s “perception” across the business. She doesn’t see us as the internal IT department, we’re the “Customer Service Solutions” department. We were told: Our office door needs to be kept open so people can feel free to walk right in with problems. Apparently it's our fault for not hearing when people knock lightly on the door. Doorbell wasn't an accepted alternative. We need to help with anything people ask at any time, even if someone lost their name badge (which we don’t provide in the first place) or doesn’t know where the cafeteria is. The business has enough covid precautions, we don't need to be afraid of people coming into our room, remoting into someone’s computer shouldn’t be our primary method for working with our “customers” (coworkers), etc etc. She’s…

So, I’m about to graduate with my master’s in health administration in a couple months. I have 5 years of relevant experience, and I applied for an “administrative specialist” position at a top university/research institute in the country for a specialized surgery unit. The job required at least a bachelor’s degree with experience, and it described high-level administration responsibilities. Perfect, exactly what I’m looking for. I went through three rounds of interviews, all of which required me to take time off work at my current full-time job, and all of which were intense behavioral-based interviews but luckily were conducted on phone/Zoom. The interviewers could only give me vague descriptions of what they thought the job would be, but I assumed that was normal since it was such a “catch-all” type of job. I get invited to a final interview, which is in-person and over an hour away from me. I…