Antiwork

I currently work in a casual zero hours contract role, where its understaffed with its busiest days friday and saturday being and just one person managing ticketing for events and cinema screenings. People tend to not want to work those shifts aswell because of the day and nature od how busy it can get. They've offered us a contract with guaranteed 24 mins hours providing that we at least work 4 friday and saturday evenings each month. We would have to reapply and reinterview aswell. In the new contract the rest of the week seems slightly unclear as to how they will create the rota but each shift is a minimum of 4 hours. The contract doesn't mention anything about sick leave or holiday, so I asked them more about how that would work because currently it seems like they're banking on one person to cover those shifts consistently but…

I work as a legal assistant. Our office has about 8 legal assistants and about 12 attorneys. On top of that we are supposed to have 2 people in front desk/reception area: 1 person is an actual receptionist taking calls and the other person processes new cases. They’re supposed to back each other up if one of them is out. Well we used to have those positions filled until the actual receptionist quit. This left the person processing new cases handling the job of 2 people. Besides that, this person got promoted to be a legal assistant and she can’t leave that reception/front desk position until the office finds 2 new people. We’ve been short staffed since August of last year. This caused more workload put on all the assistants because we essentially become backup to the front desk person. The manager always pulls 2 specific people from my unit…

What can be a reasoning for a daily tracking form? i was just handed one along with everyone else. Do i have to fill this out if the form is not in the employee handbook? it feels very childish.

This is a past story from a few years ago when I was living in my hometown. I used to bus tables for a brand new sports bar, shifts were often 12 hours long. I couldn’t stand the management and ownership, bunch of phonies who pretended to care about your life before making you do busy work. My cousin was getting married and I gave them two weeks notice I wouldn’t be able to make it to my shift as I had the wedding. I knew better than to find cover, thats not my responsibility. Management ended up calling me wondering the hell i was, told them I was at the wedding like I told them. Safe to say they weren’t happy with my decision to choose a wedding over cleaning tables.

I truly don’t know how much longer I can keep going like this, especially without a vision of a better world. I am clinging onto a sliver of hope for our future, but it’s becoming more and more difficult every day. My partner is working 6-7 days a week (salaried) at a warehouse in NYC. She’s been denied a raise multiple times. No other jobs she’s been applying to have been fruitful, no matter how eager hiring managers seem. I am trying to pick up the slack financially and at home, but I’m overdrawing my account every month to pay bills. I feel depressed. I feel angry. I have no energy or motivation. It’s hard to discern if the lethargy is long COVID or exhaustion from being drained of any little bit of money I make. I want to connect with my immediate community and support/organize with my neighbors and…

Somehow, my resume made it past through to the second stage. It's a job paying almost 6 figures when the most I've made in the past is $14/hr. Do I want to try for it? I have a guaranteed I can do position already lined up with a starting date and everything, but it pays half what this job would. Do I try to BS my way into the role? It's something I genuinely think I would love doing, and may even be good at.

that’s it

There’s a festival coming up in the town that the insurance office I work at is in. It’s in a few months. We apparently sit outside and hand stuff out all day on that Saturday. Saturday is normally our day off. We are a Mon-Fri office. I had a feeling I wouldn’t be getting paid for being here if I were to come to this event. So I told them it was mine and my husband’s anniversary of when we started dating. Which is not a lie. It actually is that weekend and it is a big year for us. But just out of curiosity I asked my coworkers who may be attending if they’ll be paid. I was told “no because we’re salary. It’s part of our job.” I get that salaried employees aren’t paid hourly in the same way hourly employees are. But salary pays for 40 hours…