Antiwork

I work at Costco and they have a rule that you must work 4 days a week as a part time employee. Which is all fine but that means I want 3 days off a week. I approached my schedule writer about my availability and I said , “whenever you can work in a 4 day work week” and they said , “no, I won’t be doing that”. I know it’s possibly because other Costco Wholesales in the area are doing it and are fine. Not only that I work on the front end as a cashier so it’s not like they don’t have the man power to accommodate this. I know they are going to cite “business needs” but honestly ? They just don’t want everyone desire a 4 day work week and make that the norm. So my question is : What should I do? How do I…

I’m a cook and a hell of a pushover who got themselves stuck working Sundays permanently. I covered for the bosses sister a couple of times and now it’s forever. I hate myself the most for ever agreeing to an hour on a Sunday. I just want to work 4 days a week and focus on my little side baking business.

“Why doesn’t anyone wanna work anymore?” “Why is everyone quitting?”

They say it's because we get to take the certification with us if we quit or something. I think it's bullshit, personally. I think it should be illegal for them to make us take a test off the clock. Especially when I have to use one of my two only days off to take said test. (I'm not sure if it's ServSafe or the Food Safety Manager exam).

My very first job I got a lot of overtime at, was never full-time and because of that when the full-timers wanted to take vacations I was always ready to jump in. So I learned from a very early age, 15, to always pick up every possible shift. In my early twenties I worked at circuit City. It was the third job I had had and yet another job where I was not full-time. I began to loathe the idea of health care tied to the job. Benefits was always the excuse to where I could never get full-time. Company couldn't afford it, as soon as I hit those 35 hours I had to stop coming into work. I was so pissed at everyone trying to litigate and regulate these burdens on the companies. I wanted and needed more money and I didn't want to juggle multiple jobs. I just…

Does your company hire family members and friends of managers. In my company they gave them full time jobs and if they weren't full time they were given the best shifts, the best jobs on the shift. Certain rules didn't apply to them.

‘Tis the season! As many of us know in corporate America, this means holiday bonuses and merriment cards from the office. Long story short I put in my two weeks a week ago. On Friday while I was at lunch the Christmas cards were passed out. Everybody got handwritten notes and of course a fat check. Well I found out that I did not get mine. After asking some questions around the office, I decided to go to my boss and ask if I did not qualify for some reason. He starts babbling on that it was an “oversight” but still mentioned “well you did say you were leaving…” (confirming my suspicions that this whole handing out cards thing isn’t about appreciating employees and expressing gratitude, it’s about creating the illusion that there is) Me, not shocked at all, said sincerely to him “Yes but I would like to think…