Antiwork

Preface by saying I know I’m not bound to the job by some force other than myself. I can leave whenever I please. I, however, do not wish ill upon anyone. The job had been fantastic, but as a student, the hours were too much and I can’t continue with any schedule requiring me to be working at 3:30am M-S with only two days off, which aren’t promised to be blackout days. I tried approaching my manager two weeks ago to let him know that I may need to quit with the spring semester coming up. The hours wouldn’t work, and even if we changed the schedule, I would make 1/3 of what I do now in order to work & be able to make the commute to school at 10am. He said I was thinking too negatively, and already ‘had the kind to quit’ with that negative thinking. I…

It is -40 F with windchill and that wind is shoving cars around the road. Staff EMT messages to tell us skin freezes in 5 minutes (frostbites starts much sooner), better jog to the building from the parking lot! Most other schools are off for holiday break, the few that are not have already closed for dangerous weather. Our staff must report to work even though students are not coming!

My minor sister works from 10:30pm-2:30 the next day. She works at a prestigious assisted living community. I asked her if she was crazy for picking up so many shifts. She said she doesn’t volunteer for doubles. They schedule her for doubles without her permission. She is miserable and trying to hide it. She comes home at 3:30 and leaves for work again at 9:45 that night. She has approximately 6 hours to herself in between shifts. I’m devastated because my sister is a little challenged and cannot speak up for herself, and I’m assuming her workplace picked up on that aspect about her and are taking advantage of it. She is 17 and graduated high school early. However, is this legal? Also, what do I do? I’m her big sister and I want to contact her workplace and attempt to stand up for her on her behalf, but I…

So I'm in my mid 30s, and when I was a kid retirement meant you stopped working. Or if you did, it was a hobby like wood working, and no way were you dependent on it to keep up a lifestyle. Today, I'm seeing more and more people “retire” and end up having to work somewhere they hate part time or full time. Sometimes they stop working for 6 months or a year. But even after they join the workforce again they keep referring themselves as retired. And what sucks is they are only working to help pay off medical bills, cost of living skyrocket, and so on.