Antiwork

ב''ה, but who will stand up for the cameras and demonstrate this?

I've been working for a chain restaurant franchise in SC. I've been told the franchise owner can't afford to offer us insurance, but I thought that the ACA made it mandatory. There's maybe 20 employees between the two stores he owns. If this isn't a good place to put this, let me know. (also the owner has been on vacation and unreachable at least twice a month since I started working, so the whole 'i can't afford it 🙁 thing is absolute horseshit. most people here make $9 and work part time. The GM is a liar and a thief. yes i'm looking for a new job.)

I am really doing my damn best to remain optimistic but, every time I wake up I’m greeted with 8 hours of fresh shit to shovel before I’m even allowed out of the driveway and then I just got done shoveling shit I’m too tired to give a fuck about anything short of watching some YouTube/browsing Reddit. Usually I’ll smoke some weed just to make time go by slower and it feel less boring. But It puts me to sleep even earlier. So all in all all I am a slow morning person and the time before work I rarely count as free time. And after work I’m hardly taking a vacation or doing something new. Nope just same day on repeat. Just trying to run the next lap slightly faster than the last. Feel like I’m running against my ghost in a Mario kart. It all seems so pointless…

Every time I get an approval for time off, my boss asks to come in during the next weekend or two to “help”. What gives!? The PTO is negated by the additional days asked to work. Any thoughts on this?

I did work for Ashley Furniture in Kelowna B.C, Canada from December 21 until now. The company was purchased by a company called TDG The Dufresne Group whom owns roughly 55 other Ashely Furniture locations throughout North America. They had given us a contract in May when we were initially bought out that were identical to what we originally had but under the new TDG brand. They planned to swap over to their new systems and do a complete switch to TDG by October 1st. Fast forward to last Saturday September 24th I come into work and they are forcing all staff to sign a contract the day before it's effective. This contract states we go from $20/hr + 7% commission down to minimum wage + 2-4% commission. We lose roughly $4/hr and roughly 25-40% of all our commissions. They state that all our past sales will no longer be…