Antiwork

They make the decision to pay less money in wages and not have enough staff. They put it on you to do overtime (salaried) with the threat of bad reviews or no pay rise or whatever. They are taking money away from you by not immediately paying you what they are saving by not having X number of employees. They are stealing your exercise time, your housework time, your hobby time, time with your children, time with family and friends. The audacity.

I feel like I'm always burnt out and unmotivated everytime I'm done with work. I'm slowly learning how not to work so damn hard but living paycheck to paycheck on minimum wage is a cage that is so hard to get out off while you're burnt out from it all. Any tips? Anyone in same situation? I want to figure the next steps to getting out of the service industry but don't have skills elsewhere or direction.

I work as a receptionist at a company that does appointments for clients. We're respected in our area and have a high demand. We often get calls asking for work done within two weeks and have to tell them they can either book further out, get on a waitlist, or call back another time. Sometimes our workers have days off, as any law abiding job does. But sometimes, after getting these days off, they request to get appointments anyways. It seems silly to me, but I don't judge. As long as they know they have work to do we give it to them. Well, our worker, Blank, had one of those types of days. 3 clients, and a time block noting she was cleared to not come in. I was told by a fellow receptionist here that she approved to get appointments scheduled that day, and thus the other receptionist…

So this story is actually a couple weeks old, but I still feel like talking about it. I worked as a welder/manufacturer at my company. Despite being the youngest at the company by far, I worked harder than anyone else in the place. I pushed to prove myself day by day, and after a year I had more responsibilities than anyone else in the shop. They literally had me in charge of an entire station for building these engine racks for Toyota, teaching new people how to do it, and I was the official Quality Control for the entire crew checking everything that gets sent out and checking every nook and cranny to ensure the racks were actually good to go. But even after ALL this time and effort I’ve it into the company, they still treat me like complete shit. About two weeks ago I finally quit because they…