Antiwork

I have been working at a place for almost a year. I knew when I got hired that there would be some overtime. Not a big deal, I get that when there are deadlines or actual work to get done. I am almost into four weeks of mandatory overtime. We are expected to work an extra 1.5 hours Monday through Thursday. We are not allowed to take off. There isn't any immediate important work to do. I don't understand why we seem to be doing overtime for no reason. I am getting burned out and I am starting to make stupid errors due to being over tired. I just don't know if I should stick it out and hope it ends soon or look for something else. Any thoughts or opinions would be appreciated.

Sometimes I find myself wondering what things have fundamentally changed, that have contributed to the huge numbers of homeless people we have now — other than the obvious, which is of course the obscene and unconscionable increase in the price of buying or renting a place. What I mean is, there have always been alcoholics and drug addicts; there have always been those with mental health issues; and, frankly, a few who just can't do the 9 to 5 thing. (no shame in that. I'm kinda that way myself.) But in the past, those folks wouldn't necessarily be on the street. Why is that? I know one big reason is that we closed many institutions caring for the mentally ill. A lot of them were hell holes, yes. But at the same time, I think the puritan notion of everybody as being “curable” is a problem. There are people who…

As the title reads. For context I am an assistant chef in Boston and went into my job this morning after being out for a week with COVID. I was never given a reason as to why I was being fired other than “we're moving in another direction.” I have never shown up late and have worked my 12 -13 hour a day shifts without complaint and bonded with all my employees. I did my duties working alongside the chef and was constantly praised for my good work. Our chef has been away for two weeks on vacation and I was out one week so I haven't seen him in three weeks. The owner demanded I be let go. I asked if it was COVID related and they denied it and could only offer me the explanation that they “are moving in a new direction.” Oh and they fired my…

I'd be interested in testimonials of workers working in any form of cooperative, be it worker, consumer, multi-stakeholder, etc. What are positives of your work experience and where do you see room for improvement? To what extent does your organization realize principles of its chosen type of cooperative?

So i'm still a high school student, but i can't imagine how can people work their whole lives and just get little breaks on weekends , i actually believe that this is slavery. I'm not a native english speaker so sorry for my mistakes.

I have found the best job I’ve ever had. I don’t want to get into too many details but in our neck of the company woods I couldn’t have asked for better managers, team leads, and crew. But because of a texting issue in another building corporate is now discussing that we all put our phones in a fucking bin when we clock in for the day. Yeah if that is implemented I have half a mind to quit and give them a most heated email. My headphones are my life blood when I work, it’s like these companies cannot stand it that people who take time out of THEIR day to come in to work and god forbid they try to make it as comfortable and digestible as possible while they are their with some podcasts/audiobooks. Fuck you

It's my first post in this sub, so I'm sorry if this violates any of the sub's rules (I don't think it should). I got hired in August into a communications job for a membership nonprofit in my city. Upon getting hired, I was pretty enthusiastic to take this job and leave a position that I wasn't growing at. Additionally, the position was an upgrade in pay and put me up the professional echelon. Most of my colleagues seemed to really appreciate my involvement and collaboration to facilitate their work (part of my job) and I felt that I was getting along well with my boss. They had commented on my writing/attention to detail a couple of times, and did yell at me when I drafted my first press release for this job (ironically it was for my own hiring). Basically, I was absconded for not drafting something perfect -…