Antiwork

Recently my department has been on the bad end of a department merge. Essentially my employer dropped one department and we are taking over all their responsibilities. It has gone terribly. We received all of 30 minutes of training for a whole new system pertaining to a whole new product type unlike anything we’ve had to interact with before. There has been zero mention of compensation, our work volume has tripled, everyone is burnt out and angry. And what do we get? A 25$ Uber eats coupon that expired after ten days. It was sent on my days off just before a short leave, and if I hadn’t signed on to update my health benefits I wouldn’t have even seen it before it expired. As it was I had one day to use it (and was unable to do so within the expiration due to limit Uber eats access in…

Back before I realized I was disabled, I tried working full-time a few times. My jobs were fairly cushy office jobs that offered flexibility and little oversight. One of them was an internship in a subject that I actively enjoyed. Still, at the end of just about every day, I'd come home exhausted or overwhelmed. I attributed it being new to working. I also figured that doing 8 hours of intellectual labor a day was too taxing. In hindsight, I was disabled but didn't know it yet, which could explain why working full-time was so hard. My able-bodied / able-minded friends seem relatively unaffected by full-time work, so I'm curious about y'all's experiences. Especially if you don't have physical or mental health problems.

Hi, I started in retail now after having a cosy 5 months payed unemployment (you have no idea how much that relaxed me). Me and my co worker getting payed from minimun wage to slightly under it (myself the lowest lol) and our boss told us after our black friday shift, we made 90k this day. Look I like my co workers I do like my boss in a way but why the hell do stores need to tell us how much they made? Whats the point? Everyone was clapping and I was thinking so whats my percentage from this? You pay me the least possible amount on the edge of illegal, and expect me to be happy that someone made now big cash? My boss Im sure doesnt earn a lot either so the big money will go to the lucky few very high up that dont care about…

As the title says, my employer does not offer any overtime rates for weekend work (technician in the oil and gas industry). In this day and age they must be one a the few that doesn’t incentivise the employees to work extra time. The union is now involved as the workers have had enough. Thoughts?

I have individual talents, y'know? I've been doing retail for about 15 years with various businesses, repeating the cycle of coming in, doing well, promoting up, and burning out. In all that time, I've developed some abilities that are plenty useful- making displays, building fixtures, driving a forklift, stuff like that. Things that translate into practical skill I can use in other contexts, or at least for other reasons. I hate my job. I hate the hostage situation of “do this, the most lucrative form of the same miserable work, or else you lose your apartment.” I hate putting in 45 hours a week using my body to do all this heavy lifting just for the privilege of eventually laying down for a while. But here's the thing- I like the labor. I like to work with my hands, operate heavy equipment, and make things where you can see and…

I’m literally gonna die from sleep deprivation if I don’t find another delivery job soon… it’s so unorganized here & I’m basically being made to work for 8 days straight w/ no break the second week of my work schedule.

What about unions for office workers? Accountants, IT, etc. is this a thing that should be thought about, or are we (me) lower on the totem pole? I really am just curious. I’m kinda new around here.