Antiwork

When we first came to the U.S., my father started working as the lead researcher in a pretty new pharmaceutical company. About two years into it, the CEO was changed and decided to close down the entire R&D department, meaning my father along with his entire department would be laid off. The process went like this: someone from HR showed up, and everyone was asked to hand in computers and lab keys by the end of the business day and leave, and were paid their share of that paycheck up until that day. No notice given. Now we were privileged enough that my mother was employed at the time and my father found a better job pretty quickly, but many others were not. One person had to delay her wedding because she had just lost the source of income to pay for it; another had to delay a medical procedure…

Make them spend time on you. Take the interview, ask questions, make them set you up on the payroll; ask to have more income tax deducted at source, ask them to accomodate your complicated scheduling constraints, etc. Then, on the day when you were supposed to show up, when they call you to ask where you are, see if you can play this over another day: it's not your fault, your car broke down and your phone was out of battery, whatever. It hurts them way more to be missing workers they were expecting than to have people just turn them down right away.

I need advice. I reported a co-worker to Human Resources and my General Manager for making Anti-Semitic comments during work. After the GM “talked” to the coworker he apologized and I accepted, not wanting to make the workplace hostile as I need the job. But then a week later not only does this co-worker make racist imitations of the guests another co-worker is working with but they were also awarded Employee of the Month. It has now been over 2 weeks and I've still yet to hear back from HR. Now, there are rumors this employee is going to be promoted. I can't afford to outright quit, but I am looking, and if I quit, I feel like the racist wins. Sorry if there are format issues, I'm on mobile. Also, I live and work in Florida if that has any relevance to the advice.

Work as a delivery driver for a supermarket. We have a massive Christmas party budget where all staff will have a few hundred pound spent on them at least. I work the most hours in the whole supermarket out of anybody there, working 50+ hour weeks and not taking holiday ever or entitled breaks as they find it almost impossible to hire any more staff as it's a brutal job. The manager sucks up to me often and says how hard it would be for the store to function without me. I even handed in my resignation a few months back and the manager was too upset and we came to an arrangement. Literally, the only week where I can't attend the Christmas party, is the week the manager has booked the Christmas party as it suits her as she isn't working the day after. 1 person who hasn't worked…

What to do knowing the mold is affecting your breathing and landlord wants to pretend that I’m delusional. The smell is very tense. What should I do about it?

I understand that not everyone here is Christian or celebrates Christmas. However this is the time of year when companies make their money. In solidarity with the Railroad Union, retail workers, and others facing exploitation should we collectively boycott Christmas purchases this year?

Edit: Basic Guide to the National Labor Relations Act When you're part of a union, you pay union dues. Some of those dues go into a strike fund. Union members only have access to those funds in an authorized strike. If workers strike without union authorization, it is a wildcat strike and they do not have access to the strike fund, meaning if they strike they have zero income. These workers have bills and families. 2/3 of American workers are living paycheck to paycheck. Posting on the internet that you support a wildcat railroad strike is the same as offering thoughts and prayers. They need money to pay bills if they strike, which they won't have access to in a wildcat strike. If the union leaders authorized a strike that is illegal, the union leaders would be arrested and go to jail. Fam, they aren't going to jail for anyone.…

Last year I worked for a temporary location, we built it together from the bottom up. They had us create the shelves ourselves, do inventory and a whole lotta other shit. We manned ourselves and for the most part, it was fine. Except for the few that wanted to act like bosses, the lazy bunch who got away with sitting on their ass all day AND THE DRIVERS. If you were a decent driver, thanks it was pleasant. If you were that a-hole that came to us complaining about YOUR position and shift when we had no control over that, kick rocks. But I want to know more about others experiences cause I know it was chaos and they’ll soon be bankrupt.