Antiwork

could i move into an apartment? yes probably.. but it would stretch my already little money even thinner. since lot rent is cheaper than apartments rent being 1 income i have to foot the bill on everything. i have no expensive habbits (no smoking or drinking etc) no children.. and i still barely get by. they can shove their $15 min wage up their asses we need change, and we need it fast.

I hate the sick note and all the culture around it. When I went into work on Friday, they were complaining about being short staffed today due to the long weekend (Canadian Thanksgiving). Being a broke student, I offered to pick up an extra shift. Long story short, I ended up getting sick (food poisoning, presumably from Thanksgiving dinner). I called in sick to work and was told I need to provide a doctor's note as “proof” of my illness due to the long weekend. I normally don't even work on Tuesdays, and now I have to haul my ass to my family doctor and pay $40 for the pleasure of being sick. And not get paid for working today, because who gets sick time in this economy? TLDR; Capitalism is absolutely soul crushing and there's truly no way to get ahead.

This continuously bothers me, wanted a rant and I feel like it belongs here so hopefully, it stays. Anyways… What I will say upfront, I am in the UK so that's the minimum wage situation (mentioned later), and that I have worked hospitality and am now an aerospace engineer, so I don't do the typical “office 9-5 job”, but I feel this could still apply to working from home, etc. To the rant… (it's a pretty long one) I AM SICK TO DEATH of employers having issues even when all the required work is being done. If I'm a waiter, and the restaurant is absolutely dead then it is (or should be) completely understandable that myself and the other staff will have a lot of downtime because… well there's no one to serve, so why does every 'part time' employer (I would class that as typical retail/hospitality, etc) insist on…

Genuinely curious. As the title says, I'm an hourly worker from Ontario. On one of my days off, I've just been told that I must be online for a mandatory meeting at 9am. I almost feel like I should be being paid for my time… Am I right in my thoughts? I don't want to say anything to my manager about it until I've consulted others.

I’m on mobile if any formatting issues! This will be long, I am sorry in advance lol. I work for a meal prep company with multiple locations in my state. I started back with Company in January. Easy work, in my field, not busting my ass like when I worked in my previous field. I come in, I do my job, I leave. However, we eventually are very understaffed. I don’t mind working weekends, but it was every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If I wanted to get any days of the weekend off, I learned to request off in advance. So I would put in for a day here, a weekend there a few months in advance. I wanted to go to full time, so they needed me to work at the other store one day a week. That’s fine. It was 30 miles away from home and then tolls…

Silent quitting: an application of work-to-rule, in which employees work within defined work hours and engage solely in activities within those hours. In other words, people working while they get paid and not working while they’re not being paid and/or not working on things they are not being paid for/above their job description. It is absolutely despicable to me how this term is being used by corporate officials to shame workers for not going “above and beyond” and blaming us for “labor shortages” when in reality 60% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck and many of us are up to our fucking eyes in debt. Why would we work more than we have to when most of us work up to 40-60 hours a week just to have a fucking roof over our head. Watching rich people sit back and complain that OTHER people aren’t working hard enough to make…