Antiwork

TL:DR Boss calls me after 5 days with covid, asks why I haven't recovered yet, comparing recovery time to his 6 year old son. Is he calling me out as a bitch? —- Two weeks ago I came down with covid. I attended my workplace the day prior and I could feel myself coming down with something. Considering people in my household were currently isolating with covid, I knew I had it. Tested as soon as I got home from work, and it confirmed my suspicion. I let my supervisor know my result and HR had informed him due to Australian covid protocols I'm required to isolate for 5 days. It hit me pretty hard. The first two days were hell. Constant temperature fluctuations and I couldn't control my body shaking. On the Fifth day I was still feeling pretty flat and still had symptoms. I tested anyway and was…

To start, my job has a room with a smaller room, and inside that room people are allowed to smoke. We are in the bigger room for long periods of time and there are often times where the door will be left open, or people walk out blowing their last hit of smoke in the air, and sometimes it just simply smells like cigarettes in the larger room. Is this legal? If its legal are they legally allowed to make us work in this area without us having a say?

I work for a very popular home care store. I was promoted from associate to temporary seasonal manager. I was there every week until midnight setting up displays, putting our product. I was the only manager required to do it every week. Fast forward a couple weeks. Our store manager quits, the assistant who thinks she’s going to become store manager gets bypassed. One of our other key holders quit. I’m interviewed, they give the job to another person who constantly calls out, who I’ve never seen stay late etc. I’m already feeling discouraged. We have a GIANT month long sale after Christmas. I’m told I’m in charge of everything. How much training did I get? Maybe 30 minutes. Today I’m helping set up the store, can’t find any of the marketing or signs so I go in the back and the assistant manager tells me “I don’t know bud”…

So as the title says, I am now free. I've been a rentacop for just over five years. This morning I finished my last shift. While the management at my company were good people, the job was soul sucking and monotonous. I won't miss it. There was no sense of pride or accomplishment in anything I did. In fact most of the time I was just being paid to be an asshole to tenants that didn't deserve it. I had a steady wage increase from 10 bucks to 16 over time, but it wasnt enough to keep me there. Not when that's now base pay everywhere near me. There was no room for advancement and the company constantly hired inept morons that ultimately made it more difficult in the long run. I feel sorry for my coworkers because I know my replacement isn't going to last. I don't know what…

How many people have been in this situation? You're in a minimum wage job, you've been doing good for a year or so, but now your boss is cutting your hours further and further back while being a total dickhead to you. This is “quiet firing”. This is your boss trying to get you to turn around and quit so that you don't get unemployment and/or he gets the satisfaction of making your life miserable until you figure out that you need to go find a different job. Currently watching this happen with a cousin of mine. She works at a hardware store and has been there for 2 years now. She made a single mistake at work and now her boss has been cutting her hours more and more while being a total prick. And naturally, he's one of those “nobody wants to work anymore” types. She has had…

I started a new job and I had requested the 29th-2nd off well in advance and it had been approved for over a month. My manager made the schedule on Friday night and I realized that I no longer needed the 29th or the 2nd off and could work those days, but due to how it works we can’t pick up any shifts if there’s time off there. At this point I’m not scheduled any of those days anyways so I figure if I delete my request I could pick up someone’s shift for those two days (this in hindsight is where I fucked up) Lo and behold an hour later my manager edits the schedule an hour later and schedules me every single day for the time I had approved off (and gives other people NYE and NYD off instead). This rightfully enraged me but I ended up waiting…

Customer comes in and asks for a lot of timber cut. They then go to bring their vehicle in to collect. Except they don't come back which basically cuts the value of the timber they left in half. Say that you hate a particular local business – as a customer what are the best ways you know to screw them over without consequence?

Much has been said here about the plight of hourly workers in retail/restaurant industries. But let's be fair, and also look at management positions in those industries. Managers in these roles typically work 45-60 hours a week (or more), across daytime/night/weekend/holiday schedules, have underwhelming health insurance, get crappy vacation time, may (or may not) get holiday time, and are pitifully underpaid considering their workload. The truth is, if you divide their salary on a PER HOURS WORKED basis, they aren't making much more than the hourly associates they're managing. So…The Question: would you take a management position at your current workplace in the retail/restaurant industry? .

I’m waiting for my December overtime pay and August bonus (trained 11 co-op interns) The overtime got approved and it isn’t much about only 6 hours because I refuse to work past 4:30. The overtime is decent, it’s 150% of hourly pay. The bonus they’ve been weird about it and I got oh so tired of fighting and going back and forth between people and offices and I’m not sure about how much I’m supposed to get exactly since I was supposed to sign a contract that I was gonna train these students but no one made me sign. So not sure. They let my manager sign and he’d get a bonus, when I asked him about it he said that it’s only for managers… but HR says that it’s for everyone who have signed the training contract… Please keep your fingers crossed that I get my money asap and…