Antiwork

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…

So we got a new manager a few months back and they have just been awful. Really just the saddest excuse for a manager. The only reason they have that position is because they’re screwing their way to the top. They fired a bunch of people, leaving us with little no staff. They don’t make sure anyone who comes in to the company has adequate training and changes the rules literally every single day but doesn’t tell the employees and gets them in trouble instead. I swear every time I go in I’m all of a sudden doing something wrong even though I’ve worked there a while. I called out today because I’m not feeling well and last night they left me to tend to over 150 guests by myself (which is fine I can manage but it’s just a lot) because the other bartender called out and my manager…

I was looking up ways to regain sanity and to get my workload back to a level that's not stress inducing and keeps me sane when I came across an article that talks about “the unspoken rule” which is this apparantly: “Every office has an unspoken rule when it comes to sick leave, and it usually goes a little something like this: although you have a sick day allowance, it’s generally frowned upon if you take those sick days. In other words, beware of the backlash you’ll receive when you return to work.” I'm sorry lol what? I know in the US you get a fixed amount of sick days per year (glad we don't have that here) but even if you get really sick people will judge you for that? What the corporate fuck?