Antiwork

My wife is an immigration attorney and works for a non profit. She makes shit pay for an attorney (which was expected with a nonprofit I guess) but also has terrible benefits including no WFH ever and no maternity leave at all (guess what, we are pregnant!) So my wife has been searching for gov jobs for an immigration atty and finally found one in our area – we just moved to NC and it’s slim pickings for that kind of work. Anyway, she was asked to provide all previous and current supervisor contact info. She did, but requested that they not contact her current employer… they did anyway. Fast forward to yesterday, her supervisor comes into her office super pissed off about receiving the recommendation request from another job (and tbf it was seemingly out of the blue). Anyway, the supervisor immediately said that she’d bump my wife up…

I work at an info desk in a mall and I’m so over it. At least once a day I get some crazy person who shows up and is either just out of their mind, unhinged, or just inappropriate. I’ve already had someone threaten to kill me and now my boss is “disappointed” that my coworker and I left the desk after someone we thought was an employee came over and started telling us how a family member was trying to have him murdered and kept asking us if we’d be willing to write a news article about it. I’m about to get grilled for that one tomorrow when I go in…I don’t think she’ll appreciate it when I say I did what I did because I listened to the voice in my head saying “you need to remove yourself from this situation right now.” I’m so sick of it.…

i texted my boss and coworker this morning about not wanting to drive into work because we're in the cone of hurricane ian, and our office is directly on the ocean, and he responded to my concerns with “your lack of commitment to (job) is noted.” so i put in my two weeks and he waited another hour before telling me i wasn't needed and he already made other arrangements. he sent my coworker to my house to bring me my stuff but didn't include a check for my last few days of work. so not only am i now without a job, he accepted and then denied my two week notice because his pride is hurt. good riddance though, i'm riding out this storm with my leftover birthday edibles. edit: i'll specify, i was one of two support staff members for a firm of four attorneys. so no shifts,…

My boss, the only decent one I've ever had, had to fire somebody a couple of weeks ago for saying ” Man, “LGBTQ+” is just a fancy way of saying I fuck kiddies in their tiny little holes” In response to me answering a customers question, when they asked why I was wearing a pride pin. All I said was “I'm Bi.”, and he said.. That. Well, my (ex)boss found out about this after I passed it up the ladder, and tried to have a conversation with him about it. He refused to go to the back room, when asked several times, so my boss fired him on the spot, in front of the majority of the staff and a packed store. The fired person knocked over some displays, grabbed his stuff, then left. before calling the DM (who it turns out, is a Friend of his fathers), who then…

Im one of two young people in my workplace of about 50 and no less than once a week one of the older workers (late genx and above) will ask me if i've quiet quit yet or some comment along those lines. they mean it as a joke just because im young but it depresses me to see how gullible they are to the barrage of media railing against quiet quitting. Its sad that it has so effectively been associated with laziness so that the ruling class can further divide the working class and pit us against one another. The irony in my workplace is that most of the lifers here who certainly deserve a break from the mind numbing work as they near retirement, should embrace quiet quitting themselves. ive seen many of them take naps in the afternoon. some of the actual lazy ones who cant be bothered…