Antiwork

I stepped on a nail at work and the doctor originally put me on full work and on my follow up meeting 2 days later a different doctor was like no not at all. I show my boss my paperwork and he’s like what’s sedentary duty googles it and then was like oh why didn’t she just put light duty. The whole point of me being put on is so that I don’t have to walk or stand on my foot not the weight part of it. They had me doing a job yesterday that requires me to stand and walk the whole time. I know that this is malicious, I was reading the same definition as him when he googled it and he conveniently stopped reading when it started to talk about how much you should stand for, also my previous experiences with this company. What should I even…

Salary feels like a joke. To me, salaried should mean that you’re paid regardless of hours worked, because sometimes the work load will vary. Yeah, that might mean clocking in a ton of overtime and not getting paid extra, but that also means on slow weeks, you get free time. That’s not how companies see it though! When we have downtime, my company likes to remind us that we need to keep ourselves busy somehow. Learn a new skill! Finish BS admin work! Volunteer for internal projects!! Otherwise, it might look bad on your performance review In other words, on “slow” weeks no one actually works that much less, but on “rough” weeks everyone works way more. It’s actually baked into company policy – we have to submit timesheets for our hours worked, but the system WONT LET US put less than 8 hours a day. Company policy is super…

Do y’all think that after the holidays people will make a return to jobs they once left? was just thinking that some people may make the hard choice to go back to jobs they either left or refused to work for.

I worked for a large, bicoastal chain of luxury gyms for the last year. During my time there, we experienced a management change, and our new manager delegated most of the prior responsibilities of her predecessor, to us, the minimum wage front desk staff. Suddenly we were in charge of learning new computer programs, I personally had to shift all of our reservation logs onto the cloud, after she threw away all of our old documents without first making new versions. So basically we had to start from scratch. She even left us with no way to trade shifts among one another, Which was another system I had to personally create in Excel. Anytime I ask her for help, she told me to figure things out myself. After a series of events in my life, I concluded that this job, which was my second job at the time, was no…

The sub is currently being saturated by these posts of people complaining about holiday bonuses. Personally, I really don’t even understand the point of the complaint unless in the specific case that a significant bonus was promised and then severely underdelivered. If you work in retail, fast food, etc. (industries where holiday bonuses are not common or expected) then why the fuck are you complaining that you got a free $20 bill when plenty of other people get absolutely nothing over the holidays. I think if the people posting these complaints provided some more context (like they said we’d get big bonuses and instead they just gave us a goodie bag full of candy) then I would fully be on their side. But as it is, it seems like people who are just acting entitled and angry about receiving free stuff.

I got another job that I start on Monday. It'll be my first Christmas off since 2014. I'm so happy that I get to see my family, but I feel so bad about leaving my coworkers. (See post history for previous story)

And I make $20/hr, for now. Even with my husband's income, I'm worried this next year will be just as hard as the last. I'll work hard as it's a glorified administrative assistant position, to be honest. I'm worried I won't have time to apply for state benefits with the new job starting. Next week, I'm hoping to apply. I know going in with everything will make things easier. However, we've lost our kids' social security cards in the move last year and my husband lost his maybe a week ago. It's so fucking expensive to be poor in the US.

Small bussiness. Less than 5 employees.