Antiwork

I posted here before about the stand-in manager at my hotel job, which is normally the area manager for all the hotels owned by the investment company he works for, trying to pressure me to move a life-sustaining surgery to a time more convenient for him and his vacation time. Since then: I found out that was triggered by the fact that the other guy, who we all knew was training to be a manager at one of their other, bigger locations was actually lied to. He was brought in as a front desk guy they wouldn't have to train, so when he found out, he quit and was set to leave before the holidays. I went to my doctor to see about medical leave for my surgery, and due to other conditions rapidly worsening, I was put on medical leave effective immediately. I ended up having to tell this…

My family and friends are asking why have two weeks off? Well I worked in a customer service role straight out of uni, after recovering from being sick (won't go into details but was sent to the hospital). For the first month my contract was for a government department in the UK that paid high OT incentives and made it enjoyable/bearable. 2 weeks in one of the managers nominated me in that department for employee of the week. Not much but I always work hard at what I do so it was finally nice to be recognised. A week before the queen passed, we get told you have no choice but you're moving to a fashion retailer popular in the UK. I'm like ok but I had no warning. Foreshadowing, my 4 day training fell on the queens funeral – a national holiday in the UK. We were told we…

They even invited somebody who no longer lives in the same country, but not me. Gave them 4 and a half years of my life. Continued supporting their business after I left. Was just there a few weeks ago. Just goes to show how little I mattered to them. I'm hurt by it even though I know I shouldn't be. Delete if this is the wrong sub to post in.

Okay, I have worked this 10-hour overnight shift since August. Supermundane has little growth, but it has the best pay in my area. For the most part, people have been friendly to me, but being the only black girl at work, I feel like I need to work ten times harder than everyone else. This has exhausted me. Despite bending over backward for everyone; driving 30 minutes to work, canceling my plans to cover somebody’s shift for Thanksgiving, renting a reliable car so I’m able to get to work during last weeks snow storm, picking up an extra hour of overtime because we’re understaffed, I still feel like everyone hyper focuses on my minuscule flaws. I have this coworker who is making me not enjoy working there. They’re moody, and dismiss what I say, even if I report to them. And they always have an attitude towards me but then…

Backstory: due to circumstances outside of the company's control, me and a lot of my coworkers are getting laid off. While it's not the company's fault, the way they're handling it has not been great. Less than 30 days notice, acted like they were doing us a favor by paying out our vacation (legally required to), and no severance pay. I get it, it's not legally required, but they've known this was likely to happen since at least October, and push themselves as a “company that cares about its employees”. Came back from lunch to an email from a coworker sent to as much of the company as possible. Said email was calling out one of the corporate managers for being horrible, praising another corporate manager for being amazing, and calling out the corporate for basically giving the middle finger to the entire office. And pointed out that, if they…

I don’t know how I’ll spend this extra 19 cents an hour. After all I’ve been through with this company, this is the final slap in the face.

So I’m a delivery driver for one of the biggest delivery companies. The other day I delivered a package to this older man, maybe early to mid 70s. After I drop his package off and I’m walking back to my truck he yells out “HEY. THANK YOU. It’s so nice to see a young man like you actually working these days, especially on a rainy day. There’s a lot of people your age who don’t want to work, they just want to sit at home collecting money from the government. THANK YOU.” It’s crazy to me how out of touch people are. Especially older people. This guy probably bought his house years ago, making maybe half, even less of my hourly wage, and im over here barely surviving off my income, while my companies executives bring in 6 figure bonuses and I got a 2% raise in the last 3…